> It is not a question of proof, but faith, and it will
> always be so.
ding ding ding. Religion is based on belief. If you believe it who cares what other people think? The minute you accept the cult of science or history and use their arguments, you cease to be a christian. Your faith isn’t strong enough for you to believe in it a priori.
You said: Religion is based on belief. If you believe it who cares what other people think? The minute you accept the cult of science or history and use their arguments, you cease to be a christian. Your faith isn’t strong enough for you to believe in it a priori.
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I am no theologian, but I am a Christian. What I believe, I believe by faith, but most religions, including Christianity, have factual bases as well as faith-based beliefs. Jesus is a historical figure, who actually existed. Belief in His existence does not require faith, except faith in the accuracy of historical records (which may involve more faith than having faith in God’s existence). I think that the writer makes some pretty good points in the article. Are they scientific proof of the resurrection? Perhaps not, but they are the kinds of proof that people rely upon in their daily lives for believing whether something occurred or not. Dying for something one believes in is pretty strong evidence for me, and most. I don’t believe what suicide bombers believe, but I would say that THEIR belief if pretty strong, if misguided. Those who claim to have been a witness to the fact of Christ’s resurrection, not to mention His appearance AFTER the resurrection to them, would not likely been willing to die the kind of death they died if they didn’t really witness those events.
The Roman and Jewish authorities had pretty strong motivation to disprove the resurrection story, and each had the ability to do so by producing Christ’s body— if they could have done so. They had at least as much motivation to do so as to have Him crucified in the first place. It is not credible that the Roman guards would have been complicit in effecting or aiding in the theft of the body.
But there is always room for doubt, and that is what makes faith faith. I believe. I believe.
Yes, but in the case of Christianity there is real and solid evidence that is consistent with, and supports, belief.