[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

It is not at all like saying that a war, (which happens all the time, throughout history, and has been witnessed by both you and I), is the same as saying a human being rose from the dead thousands of years ago, never happening again, ever, throughout history. Those events were recorded as happened, thousands of years ago, by dead people. Wars happen now, witnessed by us. Again, rising from the dead is unbelievable. If the resurrection, is as factual as the Gallic War, why then do only Christians believe in the resurrection, but peoples of all faiths believe the Gallic War happened? I believe in one, all-powerful God, but I have no facts to back it up, no proof, just faith. I could not argue one minute in defense of my beliefs, because they are unbelievable to many. Why is faith in your beliefs, not enough for you? 106 posted on 8/27/02 4:10 PM Pacific by stuartcr

It's not enough simply because it's not all that there is. To deny Facts in Evidence would be intellectually dishonest of me... it would be irrational.

Meaning no disrespect to the religious convictions of others, I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by crucifixion. Where...is the miracle I spoke of? Well consider this and let your imagination translate the story into our own time -- possibly to your own home town. A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father's shop. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father's shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the while, even though he is not an ordained minister. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing -- the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb. End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who...left no written word has, for 2000 years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers, kings, emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived -- all of them put together. How do we explain that?...unless he really was who he said he was." ~~ Ronald Reagan

[stuartcr]

A quote from Ronald Reagan is not proof of anything.