Originally posted by Gary
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The onus for evidence is on you, friend, not me, and you have zero evidence for the alleged Resurrection event itself,
as it happened; no one admits to witnessing this "car accident", an analogy many Christians are fond of using.
NO ONE, even in the Bible, claims to have watched the dead body come back to life or to have watched the body leave the tomb! The only evidence that you have are claims of post-death sightings, which in cumulative human history, come a dime a dozen, and an empty grave, which in cumulative human history, is not an unheard of phenomenon.
And then, of course, your generalizations and assumptions about first century Jews. But again, history has ample evidence of generalizations being violated. But Resurrections are an unheard of phenomena, even by your own standards! Even you admit, it only happened ONCE...if at all.
So put it all together. Which is more probable: A one time, previously unheard of event, or, an exception to the usual behavior and thinking of an ancient people.
The onus is on you, Nick, regarding your extraordinary claim for the development of the early Christian belief in a resurrection. The onus is on you to prove miracles are real events. The onus is not on me or on any other skeptic of your supernatural claim. And don't ask me to read more books. I am not going to do your work for you! YOU provide the evidence. The fact that no historian includes this alleged event in any university history textbook is proof that your evidence, to date, is insufficient, notwithstanding your howls of "foul"; alleging a bias by the entire academic community.
I backed my case. I'm waiting for you to back yours.
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