Originally posted by Gary
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Yes, it is unfortunate. Adrift and I just cannot have a civil conversation that lasts more than a couple of exchanges.
Bottom line: Skeptics like myself cannot prove that Jesus was not buried in a rock mausoleum provided by a member of the very group that so desperately wanted to snuff him out. But I believe that I and others skeptics on this thread have done a reasonable job in providing a case that it is very possible that he was not; that he was buried in a dirt trench as was the custom of the time.
Without the Empty Tomb, the evidence for the Resurrection belief comes down to claims of seeing a dead man (a brain-dead, dead man) alive again. We skeptics believe that such a phenomenon only occurs in the world of science fiction. Possible, yes. Probable, absolutely not. Believers in the supernatural believe such a phenomenon is very possible. The question I ask everyone to consider is this: Based on collective human experience, which explanation for the Resurrection belief is more probable:
-A never heard of before or since supernatural event really did happen
or
-Jesus' emotionally devastated family friends saw what they wanted to see: their loved one alive again.
You decide.
Bottom line: Skeptics like myself cannot prove that Jesus was not buried in a rock mausoleum provided by a member of the very group that so desperately wanted to snuff him out. But I believe that I and others skeptics on this thread have done a reasonable job in providing a case that it is very possible that he was not; that he was buried in a dirt trench as was the custom of the time.
Without the Empty Tomb, the evidence for the Resurrection belief comes down to claims of seeing a dead man (a brain-dead, dead man) alive again. We skeptics believe that such a phenomenon only occurs in the world of science fiction. Possible, yes. Probable, absolutely not. Believers in the supernatural believe such a phenomenon is very possible. The question I ask everyone to consider is this: Based on collective human experience, which explanation for the Resurrection belief is more probable:
-A never heard of before or since supernatural event really did happen
or
-Jesus' emotionally devastated family friends saw what they wanted to see: their loved one alive again.
You decide.
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