However, each of us puts different weights on witness testimony. You will happen to accept anything that a lab person claims in regards to DNA tests. That is your personal threshold. They may be lying, but you are inclined to accept their witness.
We all have different thresholds for how much evidence we need in order to accept something as truth.
Christianity is based on witnesses. These witnesses include people present as well as people who predicted such events would happen. There are numerous witnesses sighted in the bible. Its perfectly okay to reject these witness statements as being delusions, lies etc. but never-the-less, these statements exist.
Some people (myself included) hold their statements as being credible because of the risks they took in testifying. Some people (myself included) hold the testimony as being truthful because there was a sufficent detail given in which parts of their testimony could have been falsified. Some people (myself included) are in awe to the extent predicted events coincided with those reported by these witnesses. Some people (myself included) give the testimony more weight because the wild claims of resurrection were more extraordinary then they needed to be in order to continue the Christian movement. A purely spiritual non-physical resurrection would have been plenty.
No, Dan, its not that Christians accept their beliefs on faith. Not one disciple is reported to have accepted on faith. They all were witnesses.
You are free to reject these witnesses if you like for whatever reason you desire. But to claim there is no evidence is simply false. What you mean to claim is that there is no evidence that is sufficient for you. Fine, the OJ jury would had a larger threshold than I did. I can live with that. But to claim there was no evidence against OJ is false.
How much evidence do both of you need to believe that the Gospel of Judas is just as real as the Gospels contained in the Bible?
How many witnesses would it take, Raycpa?
How much 'personal evidence' would it take to convince you, Pappy?