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Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
(June 30, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: It's time for an honest answer, Esq:

Why did Mark have a character in his narrative say, "He is risen!" if Mark thought Jesus' body was still in the tomb?

The honest answer is that I neither know nor care: I don't have sufficient evidence to consider that book an accurate historical record, and even if I did I certainly don't have reason to take those beliefs to be an accurate representation of what objectively happened.

My point was that I can make up answers to that question that have the same level of evidence behind them as yours, and have the added benefit of being immediately confirmed as possible, yet you'll dismiss them, while still accepting the potentially impossible answer that you like. You asked for an honest answer, but you dismissed the one I gave even though it's more probable than the one you believe, so what's the point?
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach - by Esquilax - July 3, 2015 at 4:14 pm

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