You are so sure it's not a myth!..
2006-10-11 00:08:11 · 17 answers · asked by skeptic 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, but the historical evidence for His resurrection is overwhelming.
2006-10-11 00:14:46 · answer #1 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People keep bringing up the fact that you can't see the wind. Well, you can. While it doesn't consist of enough solid matter to reflect light, it does give off thermal radiation and can be seen with a thermal camera or thermal goggles.
Please stop waving these pointless analogies in peoples' faces.
Also there is a very limited amount of proof for Jesus' resurrection and even that is insubstantial.
2006-10-11 07:42:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen the wind with your own eyes. No
Wind is invisible yet we can see it's effects. We don't see wind yet we believe it exists.
However if one wants to get into specifics one could prove that wind exists because , according to Puppy below "While it doesn't consist of enough solid matter to reflect light, it does give off thermal radiation and can be seen with a thermal camera or thermal goggles."
The analogy of wind can only be pointless if:
Thermal cameras and thermal goggles were standard equipment everyone carried around with them. Thus, to those who do not have access to this type of equipment there will also be " a very limited amount of proof " for the existence of wind.
Knowledge, information and facts can all be viewed as insubstantial to those who choose to ignore it or who are ignorant of it and can also be twisted to suit the purpose of anyone who wishes to wield it.
If one were to try and explain the existence of and demonstrate the workings of a thermal camera and goggles to a 3 year old child, to demonstrate the existence of wind, would that informationbe useful to and would he/ she understand it? No, it would be equally pointless to the child.
The idea of something being pointless has more to do with a point of view than an actuality.
2006-10-11 07:24:16 · answer #3 · answered by Ni Ten Ichi Ryu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I cannot see the wind with my eyes but know it exists because I can feel it's effects. I feel what are, without a doubt the direct effects of Christ Himself in my life. Jesus is as clearly evident to a believer as the wind or gravity.
Be Blessed and Blessed Be
2006-10-11 07:17:49 · answer #4 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure didn't. But I know of some guys who died horrible deaths because they DID see, and they DID believe.
If you go with the standard of having to see it to believe it, then Plato, Sophocles, and Homer didn't exist. After all, all we have are people that CLAIMED they existed. And their earliest writings in existence still came hundreds of years after they lived and died (Homer's writings are the closest. Earliest copies were from about two hundred years after they were written, and about five hundred copies still exist.), AND fewer copies exist than what exists of the Bible. The New Testament was written between 25 and 60 years after the resurrection of Christ by people who saw it. The earliest copies were within twenty-five years of those. There are TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND in existence today.
Explain that to me.
2006-10-11 07:27:57 · answer #5 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-11 07:20:15 · answer #6 · answered by ab 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dangerous territory man. Who among us has seen Auschwitz? If someone here has, let's come back to this question in 20 years (sorry to whomever that was). It's easy to apply that same flawed reasoning to other circumstances with bad results.
2006-10-11 07:23:35 · answer #7 · answered by Phil 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
one does not to see everything with their own eyes to know something exists. there is no one who has seen the wind only the results of the wind yet have met no one who denies the existence of the wind.
2006-10-11 07:23:20 · answer #8 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I sure didn't but in order for Jesus to live in your heart you have to have faith,,Faith is the substance of things hoped for,the things unseen..Just because we never seen it with our own eyes don't mean it wasn't real..I have felt his presense around me and I know he is alive and well...
2006-10-11 07:12:09 · answer #9 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen the wind? Are you sure it's not a myth?
2006-10-11 07:16:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Add to that the fact that the New Testament was written decades after Jesus died, if he existed at all. There are better witnesses to Elvis being alive after his death.
2006-10-11 07:11:22 · answer #11 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋