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Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
Here's the problem with expecting other people to take your "personal experience", and nothing more, as evidence:

1) People can be mistaken
2) People can make shit up
3) People can misinterpret events
4) People can fail to properly express events

With no way to verify what is being said, we can't possibly tell which of the above may cause the anecdote to be invalid. Even if the person truly believes they are telling the truth, that is no use to us.

Try this out for comparison:

"I just had an experience with God. He said Christianity is false. Then he disappeared."

How many Christians will accept this "personal experience" as evidence, and believe this really happened, if I present no additional evidence? Let's see... none. Yet some Christians expect us to just believe what they say, in exactly the same way. I can say, "But it really, really happened" as much as anyone else can. Can't have it both ways.
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach - by robvalue - June 27, 2015 at 8:47 am

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