“I saw unequivocally that the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leave absolutely no room for doubt.” – Sir Lionel Luckhoo (1919¬¬ – 1997) Attorney in the Guinness Book of Records for successfully obtaining 245 successive murder acquittals
The most interesting thing about objective truth is that there are people who deny that it exists.
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They are deeply hostile to the thought of anything that in any sense stands in judgment over them. The idea toward which they are most hostile is, of course, the idea that of there being a God. – Professor Peter Van Inwagen - The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, by Josh McDowell, page 596
In fact, while thousands of finds from the ancient world support in broad outline and often in detail the biblical picture, not one incontrovertible find has ever contradicted the Bible. – Norman Geisler - Ibid, page 383
We, as Christians, are asked to take a very great deal on trust; the teachings, for example, and the miracles of Jesus. If we had to take all on trust, I, for one, should be skeptical. The crux of the problem of whether Jesus was, or was not, what He proclaimed Himself to be, must surely depend upon the truth or otherwise of the resurrection. On that greatest point we are not merely asked to have faith. In its favour as living truth there exists such overwhelming evidence, positive and negative, factual and circumstantial, that no intelligent jury in the world could fail to bring in a verdict that the resurrection story is true.” - Lord Darling, former Chief Justice of England - page 219
There remains, therefore, no supposition possible to explain the recorded phenomenon (of Christ's crucifixation and piercing of his body with a spear) except the combination of the fructification and rupture of the heart. - Samuel Houghton, M.D., great physiologist from the University of Dublin - page 224
Indeed, taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ. - Brooke Foss Westcott (1825 - 1901) regius professor at Cambridge
… the Resurrection of Christ is a fact… - Benjamin Warfield of Princeton - page 218
If Jesus was a liar, a con man, and therefore an evil, foolish man, then how can we explain the fact that He left us with the most profound moral instruction and powerful moral example that anyone has ever left? Could a deceiver - an impostor of monstrous proportions - teach such unselfish ethical truths and live such a morally exemplary life as Jesus did? The very notion is incredulous.
“About the life and sayings of Jesus there is a stamp of personal originality combined with profundity of insight in the very first rank of men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast.” - Agnostic, skeptic, and philosopher John Stuart Mill - page 159
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Wah, wah, wah, gid, you generalize about atheists and pigeonhole us all. Wah, wah, wah. - Typical atheist
What, a "stupid," "fundie," "Bible-thumper," like me who knows no "science," is "stupid," "ignorant," and always laughed at by you brilliant atheists, generalizing and pigeonholing YOU?
Mais non! Jamais.
Talking to yourself again?
Seeing how I am on your "ignore" list...
Apparently yes.
You keep working on those copy and paste skills while shutting down all actual debate. It is clearly a good use of your "genius" intellect.
Quoting people that say there is evidence for the resurrection of Jesus is not the same as actually providing such evidence.
I am unconvinced that Jesus was ever a real human being. If he did exist he did not rise from the dead, cast demons into pigs, or turn water into wine.
http://coldcasechristianity.com/2014/is-there-any-evidence-for-jesus-out...
https://www.bethinking.org/jesus/ancient-evidence-for-jesus-from-non-chr...
http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/historical-jesus.htm
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: When we consider the basic facts about Jesus’ life, the vast impact He has had is nothing short of incredible. A nineteenth-century writer put it this way:
He (Jesus) was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.
He grew up in another village, where
He worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty.
Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never had a family or owned a home.
He didn’t go to college.
He never visited a big city.
He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born.
He did none of the things that usually accompany greatness.
He had no credentials but himself.
He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against Him.
His friends ran away. One of them denied Him.
He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
While he was dying, His executioners gambled for His garments, the only property He had on earth.
When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today He is the central figure of the human race.
All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that one solitary life. - The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, by Josh McDowell, page 156
Why I Think Jesus Didn't Exist: A Historian Explains the Evidence That Changed His Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwUZOZN-9dc
This "he" person fits the description of 1000's maybe millions of people throughout time. It had to be specified this he person was jesus. Talk about vague.
I for one don`t believe in any resurrection fable and the apologist you cited are all theist, I can give you a list to , Bart ehrman john dominic crossan marcus borg Robert m. price, Richard carrier, And on down the line, the resurrection story is a myth. Jesus died on the cross and was put in a shallow grave where animals dogs etc, ate his body. Just look at the gospel of mark probably most scholars agree was written around ad 70 a full 2 generations after Christ lived. and you could count the other 3 gospels out, because there complete embellishments here. The bible is not infallible it is ridden with errors and contradictions all throughout, Also it is not inspired.