(July 14, 2015 at 11:51 am)Pizza Wrote:(July 14, 2015 at 3:06 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Have you stopped to consider that the resurrection of Jesus IS evidence that there is a God? Or that coming to the conclusion that the resurrection makes sense is a step toward faith in God?
Because that assumes the very thing you where to set out to support, "there was a bodily resurrection of Jesus." Your premises assume Christian theism to support Christian theism. I don't understand what you don't understand about that.
Sorry, dude. You fail.
We do not consider that God exists or that Jesus is God until we have evaluated the historical evidence. I have presented information found in NON-BIBLICAL texts from Jewish and Roman authors that lead professional scholars to accept five facts about Jesus of Nazareth.
The question THEN becomes, "What theory best explains these five facts?"
There may be several. That's your job...to come up with them.
The theory which I accept as most plausible is that Jesus rose from the dead. If true, even THEN we have to ask some follow up questions about who this Jesus really is and so forth.
But one step at a time.