2007-03-19 07:34:38 · 17 answers · asked by The Church Lady 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a Christian myself I think your argument is shot when your witnesses are the ones who wrote and proclaimed all the things He did. If someone doesn't initially have faith its not very hard to win this argument. I wish people would stop asking questions that make the whole church look bad and ignorant. Use some intelligence.
2007-03-19 07:39:46 · answer #1 · answered by Cid 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about the fact that these hundreds of people couldn't be bothered to write it down. Some 80 years later someone who heard hundreds of people saw such an event wrote it in the gospels. Why is it there are no artifacts from that time depicting the event? Why are there no historical records of such an event occurring except in the gospels, which again were not written about until 80 years after the supposed event?
2007-03-19 14:41:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's made up, just like all the hundreds of people who've witnessed Elvis at the Quickie Mart or in the drive through at Wendy's. Look at all the hundreds of people at a Benny Hinn show who "witness" miraculous healings that can never be documented. And all the thousands that "wtinessed" Peter Popoff received "words of knowledge from the Holy Spirit" that turned out to be his wife on the radio talking to the receiver in his ear. People see what they want to see. In a random croowd of people after the death of Jesus, how many saw him in life to recognize him? No one had pictures. No TV. Consider Saul seeing Jesus on the road to Damascus. Paul never saw Jesus in life. Anyone could claim to be Jesus and Paul would not know otherwise.
2007-03-19 14:41:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well I'm sure I don't know The Chur..., why don't you provide me their names and testimonies and we'll go from there.
Oh, what's that? You say not a single one of the people who supposedly saw this event actually *wrote it down*? And, in fact, the entire thing was recorded hundreds of years after the event supposedly took place?
Darn, I almost thought you might have a convincing argument for a second there.
2007-03-19 14:46:07 · answer #4 · answered by SomeGuy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Years ago here in Cleveland a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, Len Barker pitched a perfect game.
The attendance that night was under 20.000
There are about ten times that many today who claim to have been there
2007-03-19 14:45:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to give us the hundreds of people who witnessed that. Because according to the testament only the disciples have seen it. Another thing, the account of his ascencion was only written in Luke and it does not say that there were hundreds of people who witnessed it only those he blessed.
2007-03-19 14:48:27 · answer #6 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Psychosis: term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality".
People experiencing a psychotic episode may report hallucinations or delusional beliefs.
2007-03-19 14:40:36 · answer #7 · answered by TLG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People dead 2000 years who thought the world was flat. Sorry, not exactly a glowing recommendation, especially given that the law won't even accept eye witness accounts without proof to back them up.
2007-03-19 14:38:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mass hypnosis, mass hallucination, lots of people wanting attention, one person writing a good story with a few historical facts that turns into a belief system.
2007-03-19 14:39:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would you explain the story of Chicken Little, The Sky is Falling?
2007-03-19 14:47:24 · answer #10 · answered by MoPleasure4U 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋