[stuartcr]

I'm sure they didn't change their stories, I'm just saying that since all that happened, what was written down, describing the events, probably has changed. Besides, we really don't know what they said, we just have some very old testaments. It's not a problem to believe someone was murdered, no matter the consequence, primarily because that person is dead. It is not at all believable that someone came back from the dead. It all rests on faith, and faith alone. If you want to believe someone came back from the dead, fine.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

To: OrthodoxPresbyterian I'm sure they didn't change their stories, I'm just saying that since all that happened, what was written down, describing the events, probably has changed. Besides, we really don't know what they said, we just have some very old testaments. It's not a problem to believe someone was murdered, no matter the consequence, primarily because that person is dead. It is not at all believable that someone came back from the dead. It all rests on faith, and faith alone. If you want to believe someone came back from the dead, fine.

No, it does not rest on Faith. That's as silly as saying that the historical facticity of Julius Caesar's murder rests of "faith". It is a silly and irrational statement.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a recorded fact of History attested by numerous Eyewitnesses and committed to written records in which we may justly have FAR more evidentiary confidence (for the reasons posted above) than, for example, Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars.

Manuscript Evidence for Ancient Writings

Author	Written	Earliest Copy	Time Span	# Mss.
Caesar	100-44 B.C.	900 A.D.	1,000 yrs	10
Plato	427-347 B.C.	900 A.D.	1,200 yrs	7
Thucydides	460-400 B.C.	900 A.D.	1,300 yrs	8
Tacitus	100 A.D.	1100 A.D.	1,000 yrs	20
Suetonius	75-160 A.D.	950 A.D.	800 yrs	8
Homer (Iliad)	900 B.C.	400 B.C.	500 yrs	643
New Testament	40-100 A.D.	125 A.D.	25-50 yrs	24,000

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[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

It is not at all believable that someone came back from the dead. It all rests on faith, and faith alone. If you want to believe someone came back from the dead, fine.

The Garden Tomb

August 27, 2002 and still empty.