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To: Phantom4
[...] while Christ rose from the dead in real time-space history [...]

As Carl Sagan famously said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

Would you mind submitting the photographic evidence, satellite imagery, taperecordings, DNA tests, fingerprints, or at least sworn depositions of reliable, unbiased eye-witnesses to support your claim? You know - the same standard of evidence which you would demand to see before buying swampland in Florida, acknowledging an illegitimate child, or electing an allegedly Hawaii-born President?

Regards,

20 posted on 02/20/2010 5:31:46 AM PST by alexander_busek
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To: alexander_busek

Show me a single cell organism evolving into my next door neighbor and you have a deal. (I’m not even hostile to the theory of evolution — but it does meet your definition of an extraordinary claim).

And besides — anyone who saw a resurrected Christ is going to believe, so they’d never meet your definition of an unbiased observer.

Just an observation. I’m not trying to justify my point of view of a risen Christ to you. :)


32 posted on 02/20/2010 8:29:36 AM PST by rom (You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free)
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To: alexander_busek

I did not mean to imply that it was “extraodinary,” proof, only that there exists an adequate argument, and that Buddhists do not even make any claims to falsifiability. Buddhism is like a bowling ball with no finger holes. It may be beautiful, but no one can pick it up. Paul said that if Christ is not risen, then we [professed Christians] are, of all people, most miserable [as misled fools].
The evidence for the Resurrection is adequate except for those who simply don’t want to believe it. Indeed, the God inclines some to belief, others to unbelief. [Jn 6:44,65) There’s another politically incorrect sharp edge you won’t find outside Christianity.


37 posted on 02/21/2010 6:10:30 AM PST by Phantom4
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