alpha male Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:Um, seems like the sort of thing non-Christians in Jerusalem would have thought to make a note of in their histories.
Hardly. Think it through. If someone who you knew was dead appeared to you and said you were alive by the power of Jesus...you'd become a follower of Jesus. If you didn't experience it first-hand, but just heard rumors, you wouldn't find it noteworthy.
Neither of us experienced it first hand, but we both find it note-worthy, even though I don't believe it's true. Humans have a great appetite for miracle stories, even ones they don't think are true. And you don't have to believe the explanation to believe the event. If a lot of people said a bunch of people were resurrected from the dead by a bruja, I wouldn't be quick to believe it, but I would not have any trouble accepting that something happened to get so many people excited. Even 'the silly Christians were telling everyone that many dead people in Jerusalem rose from their graves last week' would be something to indicate it's not just an embellishment on an oral tradition.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
