I use 3 questions. 1. What best explains Jesus' empty Sanhedrin owned Roman guarded tomb whom 3 enemy factions of Jews, Romans, and Christians knew of? 2. Why did friends and foes claim to see appearances of Jesus after his death even in groups of 2-500? 3. What affected these witnesses besides a true occurrence to have them willing die for what changed their lives? At best unbelievers can give excuses for any 2 of these, but they never get 3 answered harmoniously.
Since you're just looking for excuses, it's easy to answer the questions: 1. the story is fiction 2. the story is fiction 3. people who were willing to die either mistakenly believed the fiction was actually a true story or they believed in the underlying message of the fiction
MI Wright- How do you die for mistakenly believing a resurrection event you visibly saw in the presence of several other people? You DO know there's no such thing as group visible/auditory hallucinations, right?
Christopher Kennedy-- Prove here and now Christ DIDN'T rise from the dead or your comment is baseless. You don't get to take potshots without backing up your beliefs ;)
Before showing an empty tomb, you kinda have to show the tomb first. If there was such a big hula***balu*uaaa back then, why doesn't anybody remember where it is now?
MI Wright-- There's this place called the Church of The Holy Sepulcher that's been known about for centuries. Let me ask you something else, why are you here watching these videos? Are you trying to understand, or are you looking for reasons not to?
Great job, MI Wright(?)! Bare assertion will get you nowhere. By objective reasoning alone the Default Judgement, to use an legal term, is that Jesus rose from the dead. It is properly basic until something more reasonable comes along.
I use 3 questions.
1. What best explains Jesus' empty Sanhedrin owned Roman guarded tomb whom 3 enemy factions of Jews, Romans, and Christians knew of?
2. Why did friends and foes claim to see appearances of Jesus after his death even in groups of 2-500?
3. What affected these witnesses besides a true occurrence to have them willing die for what changed their lives?
At best unbelievers can give excuses for any 2 of these, but they never get 3 answered harmoniously.
I look forward to these every week. Thanks.
Why, do you get a good laugh from them?
Nicely said. William Lane Craig also articulates and defends this argument very well.
yay Jesus! thx Greg;-)
These aren't top 3 arguments for the resurrection. This is ONE argument: an inference to the best explanation.
Since you're just looking for excuses, it's easy to answer the questions:
1. the story is fiction
2. the story is fiction
3. people who were willing to die either mistakenly believed the fiction was actually a true story or they believed in the underlying message of the fiction
MI Wright- How do you die for mistakenly believing a resurrection event you visibly saw in the presence of several other people? You DO know there's no such thing as group visible/auditory hallucinations, right?
And there I was expecting a good argument, only to be confronted by a baseless, silly argument, that is hard even to be described as an argument.
Christopher Kennedy-- Prove here and now Christ DIDN'T rise from the dead or your comment is baseless. You don't get to take potshots without backing up your beliefs ;)
Before showing an empty tomb, you kinda have to show the tomb first. If there was such a big hula***balu*uaaa back then, why doesn't anybody remember where it is now?
MI Wright-- There's this place called the Church of The Holy Sepulcher that's been known about for centuries.
Let me ask you something else, why are you here watching these videos? Are you trying to understand, or are you looking for reasons not to?
Great job, MI Wright(?)! Bare assertion will get you nowhere. By objective reasoning alone the Default Judgement, to use an legal term, is that Jesus rose from the dead. It is properly basic until something more reasonable comes along.