RE: Atheists: would proof of the resurrection matter to you?
July 16, 2015 at 8:14 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 8:18 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 16, 2015 at 7:54 am)LTonus Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 6:11 am)robvalue Wrote: Let's assume that somehow it was proved beyond reasonable doubt that there was a real, single historical person who Jesus was loosely based on, and that he really did come back to life after being dead for 3 days. What difference would this make to you, other than learning such a thing is possible?
To me it would make no difference.
Whoops typo in the poll question. How do I change it?
The possibility that we can return to life after death would make no difference to you? Or do you mean just in terms of your approach to belief in god?
It would be world-changing for me, to know that either we might be able to unlock that secret someday, or that it points to a deity that can do it.
It hardly points to any sort of deity.
Anyone with some knowledge of biology and technology has to know repairing a dead body at molecular level to make it viable again has to be theoretically possible, it is only a matter of time, perhaps quote a long time, before we can actually do it to humans on clinical basis.
So seeing it actually done in some special circumstances would not change the world for me at all, it demonstrates what I know to be in theory possible to be possible. Unless I know how it is done, seeing it done gives absolutely no new information and thus advances us not a second towards doing it in a useful way.
