RE: Travis Walton versus The Resurrection.
November 13, 2017 at 8:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2017 at 8:19 am by Jehanne.)
(November 13, 2017 at 7:15 am)alpha male Wrote: For one thing, Paul suffered greatly for his testimony and stuck to it. Who's to say Travis would keep it up if he suffered like Paul?
Are you saying that people do not confess to crimes that they did not commit under torture? Or, that people never go to their graves having embraced a lie, holding fast to those lies into death? Whose to say about what Mr. Walton would or would not say if he was persecuted? Or, tortured? Besides, even assuming that Paul, a Roman citizen, was martyred for his faith (and, no one knows for sure what happened after he ended-up in Rome), he had every incentive to continue to profess what he said he believed, for the Romans were more likely to execute a liar than a zealot. In addition, Paul may have been executed solely for political reasons against the Empire having absolutely nothing to do with his religious faith. No one really knows for sure.
And, so, you are going to base a whole worldview on the likely execution of an epileptic from the first century at the hands of a police state?