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Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
The court of law analogy doesn't really help because someone being guilty or not guilty is not uncommon like a bodily resurrection. If we go with beyond a reasonable doubt bodily resurrection doesn't look so good given that corpses don't normally resurrect after being dead for days, which casts doubt on the conclusion. Claiming there was a bodily resurrection isn't purely a historical claim, it's a claim about biology of corpses. So, biological evidence is needed not pure conjure by armchair historians.

What counts as sufficient evidence? People just claiming something happened?  If someone claimed you were a murderer or a rapist is that enough evidence or would more be needed?  How about if you accused of raping and murdering people you never met in another state or country with astral projection powers? Is mere testimony enough?

What "scholars?" What expertise make them authoritative on bodily resurrections?  How many  bodily resurrections have these scholars seen or tested? How do they research bodily resurrections?
Why prefer hypothesis over another? Why physical resurrection produce by Yahweh over one produced by mindless natural processes? Why not the swoon theory? People do sometimes survive things that normally kill people, ex. people surviving being shot in the face. Why not other paranormal hypotheses like Jesus was a ghost? Why not a demonic resurrection and Jesus was a false prophets? Why not Jesus was an alien and not a god? Why are we even assuming deities resurrect people from the dead?
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach - by Pizza - July 5, 2015 at 2:47 pm

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