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- discipler0
mrdobolina, the brief answer...
Of the variety of evidence we have available, none is more compelling than the fact that over five hundred individuals saw Jesus (1 Cor. 15:6) during a 40-day period following His death and burial (Acts 1:3). In fact, the Apostles appealed to Christ’s resurrection as proof for the truth of the gospel (Acts 17:18, 31). The historical evidence for the resurrection is so compelling that the famed Harvard law professor, Simon Greenleaf, concluded that any cross-examination of the eyewitness testimonies recorded in Scripture will result in “an undoubting conviction of their integrity, ability, and truth.”
We also know that the Romans had no intentions of stealing Christ’s body because the last thing they wanted was any turmoil that was sure to follow such an event. Plus, they would have been killed by their superiors for letting the tomb be opened. The Jewish religious leaders would also have no motive in stealing the body since that would only stir up the very movement they tried to stamp out. And certainly, the disciples could not have stolen the body; after all, would anyone really suffer and die for a cause that they knew to be a lie? It is conceivable that someone may die for the truth, but inconceivable that hundred’s of his follower’s would, in fact, be willing to die for what they knew to be a lie.
- mrdobolina0
dude, hundreds of people saw the virgin mary under an overpass in chicago a few weeks ago, that isnt proof.
- kld0
don't forget jesus in the toast!
Oh, I'm going to hell now.
*grabs nomex suit
- version30
little of what i say is vindictive, i never mean to attack, though i often am read tha way
as far as contradictions, they exist within all of us, it is how we deal with them and overcome them in our personal lives that define us
living in america with any kind of moral opinion creates a contradiction
like all the jesus pushers driving SUVs with support our troop magnets on them, though positive in message, its contradictive in reality
- discipler0
"like all the jesus pushers driving SUVs with support our troop magnets on them, though positive in message, its contradictive in reality
version3
(May 19 05, 11:52)"
------------------------------You have a caricature of Christians. This is an error that's so prevalent in the west.
- mrdobolina0
discipler, don't want to respond to anything I have said about the hundreds, if not thousands of people who thought they saw the virgin mary on that overpass in chicago?
- version30
im in kansas right now saying that and i speak from experience i see it everyday on the street.
its real, not a misconception
- mrdobolina0
I see it here too in milwaukee.
- thenuge0
she is a texan
- discipler0
version3, there are plenty of agnostics who drive SUV's and live in suburbia as well. It doesn't have a bearing on one's world view per se.
- ********0
Dammit. I didn't want to post here anymore. You're going to make me unignore Discpler just to get my afternoon jollies. Damn you all to your respective hells. (secular and sacred)
- spifflink0
being christain doesnt garner YOU mush credibility
- version30
discipler, maybe you are missing the point.
support our troops while i pay $2.15 a gallon for my escalade's 6mpg so i can drive to the grocery store and hairdressers
irony anyone??????????????
- ********0
He dosn't think catholics are christian. Thanks.
My Jesus is older than your Jesus. Nah-na-na-na-na-Nah
- discipler0
mrdobolina, someone seeing Mary in a meatloaf is not in the same realm as a historical event, documented in thousands of harmonizing manuscripts, testified by hundreds of eye-witnesses, that split history and continues to send forth shockwaves and transform lives.
- opiate0
Here comes the God Police to preach values and tell us how we should live.
Hurry! Buy a ticket and get in line with the rest of the sheep, While I chum up with the wolves.
- ********0
Fine, fine..believe what you want D man. Just keep your Jesus off my lawn.
Why must people of your ilk get in everybodies business? Why? Really. Silly silly little man.
- ********0
D-man,
In all seriousness - a question for you. Forget all the monkey crap and who saw who rise form what cave...
Can a system of ethical and moral justice exist in the world that doesn't rely on faith in Jesus? And if so, why not?
- discipler0
version3,
my point is that not all followers of Jesus are SUV driving, suburbanite, soccer moms. There are all kinds in all cultures.
- ********0
And I meant, if not, than why not?