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To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
The resurrection is not a fact of history, it is a belief. No one really has any proof of historical events beyond that which is witnessed by a living human, but all of them are at least believable. Rising from the dead, is not. People die every day, whether murdered or not. People do not rise from the dead, if they were truly dead in the first place. Please give me some proof of life after death of anyone, other than the bible. I have no problem with your faith, why do you insist that I believe the same?
89 posted on 08/27/2002 3:35:04 PM PDT by stuartcr
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To: stuartcr
The resurrection is not a fact of history, it is a belief.

Again, that is like saying that The Gallic War is "not a fact of History, it is a belief". That's a silly and irrational statement.

No one really has any proof of historical events beyond that which is witnessed by a living human, but all of them are at least believable.

These events were witnessed by living humans, and are believable. The eyewitnesses would rather die than renounce their story, the Tomb is empty, etc.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is as factual as the Gallic War. You don't have to "believe" in either, but that does not change the matter that both ARE well-evidenced Historical Facts.

Rising from the dead, is not. People die every day, whether murdered or not. People do not rise from the dead, if they were truly dead in the first place. Please give me some proof of life after death of anyone, other than the bible. I have no problem with your faith, why do you insist that I believe the same?

I do not insist that you believe the same. In America, you have the religious freedom to believe irrational idiocies if you like. (That's one of the Presbyterian Church's gifts of liberty to the people of this Nation which she largely created!!)

No one is forcing you to believe in the facticity of the Gallic War; it is just a well-evidenced Historical Fact which it is irrational and silly to deny. Likewise, no one is forcing you to believe in the facticity of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; it is just a well-evidenced Historical Fact which it is irrational and silly to deny.

96 posted on 08/27/2002 3:47:51 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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