If the detailed post-mortem appearance stories told in Matthew, Luke/Acts, and John are metaphorical or apologetic fiction, that would not prove that the resurrection of Jesus did not occur. It would simply mean that we would be left with the claims of Paul and the Early Creed regarding alleged post-mortem appearances. Would the Early Creed and Paul’s statement “Have I not seen the Christ” be sufficient for you to believe in the historicity of Jesus’ bodily resurrection?
no…
I really don’t know what evidence has to do with a bodily resurrection to a spiritual body. I don’t think this is an objective historical event subject to verification.
And frankly… I am a physicist. What history calls evidence looks pretty flimsy to me in general. And… I struggle to muster much care about whether events of the past happened as people think they do.
Just curious. Why do you worship Jesus as your savior?
The point here is why do you want verification?
Faith does not need verification.
Christianity is based on the resurrection of Christ. you are looking for verification you are looking at the wrong thing. If the resurrection is false Christianity fails. Why would i want Christianity to fail. or be false?
Believe it or not there is logic and reason to Christianity. The theology works. Take away the resurrection and it falls apart.
It is in my interest to believe the resurrection. Having accepted it my faith grew, and so did the benefits of my faith. It has got to the stage where no one on earth can persuade me it did not happen.
There is a logical feedback loop that you cannot see or break, sorry and all that.
Richard
Of course not. So what? Why do you ask these closed questions that cannot touch faith?
Faith. It all feels unquestionably right.
What do you feel that about?
Well… as I said in another thread recently. I didn’t like the person I was becoming and asked for His intervention to change me. And I did change. But that is just desperation not understanding and becoming Christian took a lot longer – especially since I was never one to buy into packages and certainly not one to let anyone tell me what to believe – so it was one doctrinal point at a time. I wasn’t raised in any religion though I did have a bit of exposure to Christianity at various times growing up. Even four years after that desperate prayer, I was trying to understand what the word “God” could possibly refer to.
Here are my reasons for belief in any religious stuff (and how I go from there) and in Christianity in particular.
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I do not care why you think this. it is just not true.
I will not be dictated to by anyone on how to interpret Scripture or God, or the Universe. Not you or science. That is my right.
You have the right to your views, You do not have the right to impose them onto me or anyone else, or to tell me what I believe.
Richard
Relax, Richard. Wait until Adam realizes that he’s responding to a question posted and a thread started by an atheist.
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