How can one realistically discount the testimony ?

Question

How can one realistically discount the testimony of over 500 witnesses to a living Jesus following His crucifixion (see 1 Corinthians 15:6)?

Answer 1

Realistically, not one person could discount the testimony given in scripture concerning the 500 witnesses. However, due to sin, lack of faith, deception, not wanting to know the truth, flat out rejection, lies from the enemy, etc... people do discount the testimony. A sad thing for sure.
Jesus is alive, well, ascended and is even now sitting at the right hand of the Father. Praise His name.

Answer 2

You can't discount no ones testimony if you are believer then you know we all have different reasons for following Jesus. We follow the teaching because we are expecting to meet Jesus in heaven.. When witnessing to people on a daily basics do everyone believe your testimony -no but the few that believe come to Christ-the bible tell the same type of stories

Answer 3

Easy, they dont believe there were any witnesses.

It would take some time to study and research history outside the Bible that shows these witnesses DID actually live and were martyred for what they saw but, nonbelievers don't usually want to take the time to find out for themselves and just discount what they hear

Answer 4

That is the epistle Of Paul. in letters written to the Corinthians.It is a bit confusing to read as he repeats himself and condradicts his self in the verses from the start making it hard to understand what he was saying and meaning.
The books of the other Apostiles bac up some of his words and thoughts though.
Yes the spirit of Jesus in human form was sighted more than once after the stone of his grave was rolled away.
And before the Acession he appeared one last time and spoke to a multitude of people of his role and theirs.

Answer 5

They saw but did not recognize who was put on the cross, the person was badly beaten and beyond recognition,and they all think that must be him.

Such testimony is only good for common people but will not be accepted if presented in our present court of law.

Answer 6

I don't discount them.
For those who do, they probably are discounting the testimony of the one who testified that there were over 500 witnesses.

Answer 7

Corinthians does not document the testimony of any witnesses. It is just an unsubstantiated, uncorroberated assertion.

Answer 8

They were on drugs? They were human, and we make things up, we stretch the truth. Hey who is to say it wasn't like Chinese whispers. Some one bumped him and said "oh i thought he just moved", then someone else says "yeah we think we saw him move", then it becomes he did move, then before u know it he was resurrected. That's plausible. Not that it matters cause u probably would never except any explanation, no one knows for sure what happened 2000 years ago, and ppl with believe anything u tell them, and say anything u if u can convince them it is true.

Answer 9

there's no testimony of any witnesses. None. there's no data or testimony of the life of Jesus that's modern-day to the time he lived. The earliest archives of certainly one of these guy have been centuries after his alleged death. Writing one hundred years after somebody's alleged death that "this guy or woman substitute right into a witness" does no longer count style as witness testimony. you assume us to have self belief that 500 human beings witnessed a guy upward push FROM THE lifeless and not a single certainly one of them left any variety of writing or checklist of this remarkable, astonishing element they witnessed? surely no longer something written down approximately it till greater suitable than one hundred years later? I not often think of so.

Answer 10

Because it's all hearsay. It's written in a book, how is that proof? have you actually spoken to these 500 people? I don't think so. So how can you realistically discount scientific proof?