[GarySpFc]

3) that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead, and thereafter was seen by over five hundred eyewitnesses (most of whom were alive when Paul wrote) (1Cor 15:4,5)

Name them. Gather their testimony. I will wait.

Nobody questioned their testimony.

[donmeaker]

It is not so much that no one questioned their testimony, but that the questioning of their testimony (which is alluded to, not given) is not recorded by the religious authors, or their followers.

Hence the argument of the early church that you had to have faith, or be damned. They didn’t have enough evidence to convince skeptical inquiry, and so condemned any who would not accept it on faith.