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Author Topic:   RESURRECTION : THE EVIDENCE (+ Apostolic Martyrdom considerations)
Darwin Storm
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Message 52 of 233 (91292)
03-09-2004 12:37 AM
Reply to: Message 45 by Cold Foreign Object
03-08-2004 11:08 PM


Willowtree, you can assume anything is true. It doesn't make it so. You are working from the premise that the ressurection is real, without subsantiating evidence, and then demand others to disprove it. The burden of proof falls upon the arguement made from the unsupported assumption, not those who point out the logical fallacy and ask for more evidence. Like any logical proposition, you must support of claim.
Secondly, you claim that the event had witnesses. In modern courts, eyewitness testimony is always considered suspect without corraborating evidence, since it has been shown repeatadly in controlled experiments to be unreliable. Now, in the case of the bible, recountings of the ressurection were written decades afterwards. The dramatic distance of time from the event inherantly increases the unrealiablity of the recountings. Also, you are making another assumption that the bible isn't biased, or that the authors were above embellishment to increase the draw of their stories.
Finally, you state that NOBODY conetests the apostles existance or martyrdom. They only thing you have shown evidence for is that you, and several christians with a nearly identical viewpoints, don't contest their existance or martydom. Obviously, there is at least someone who disputes this claim, and their may well be others. Now, both sides provide little corraborating evidence, but it is a bold face lie to claim NOBODY disputes your view.

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