If the Bible ISN'T true, how do you explain the multiple eyewitnesses?

Question

Christianity is the ONLY religion in the HISTORY of the world to have stories about miracles were the authors CLAIMED there were multiple eyewitnesses.

No other mythologies (Greek, Hindu, etc.) have EVER had any stories where they claim multiple people saw miracles.

Agree?

Answer 1

As we well know from everday life - let alone the problem of witness testimony in courts of law - eye witness accounts can still be rather selective and incomplete because we notice what is of most importance.

Historically, Christian writers had to support their claims for their new faith, which the Romans saw only as cult. The best way to do so was to claim an eye witness account of a miracle. This would act as 'evidence' for others reading or hearing of the account and possibly lead to them converting to Christianity.

Pagan mythology had no need of eye witness accounts because it developed around an already accepted religion and the stories themselves were presented as explanations of the various origins of things, people, problems associated with life and the lives of their gods.

Answer 2

Well there you have it. People either don't get the question, don't address it, know nothing about it or even what they are talking about. Actually there where at least seven different authors who wrote about Jesus' life and add to this his two brothers to make nine of whom I know. I guess you just need a note from your mother anymore. Should we doubt Socrates who lived five hundred years before Christ, of Buddha either. What a shame all history being mythology and such. We should take history out of the schools, but then you have to follow their 'logic' and ignorance. We're up the that aren't we? Of course calling people ignorant isn't too Christian. I just think of ignorance being from the root word of ignore. I think it's better to ignore questions you don't know anything about or at least don't try to answer them. I don't answer anything I don't have something cogent to add. Opinions are anti-science. They say eighty percent of people "get it. I thought we were suppose to avoid arguing. Sort of a waste of time and even destructive. To go into all the world is to work on where the information is not known and then the end of ignorance will come and obviously something is wrong with the message also. Christians say it's all about faith, when Paul said over and over in every way poesssible, "...faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." Who wants to entirely disagree with love? That's the "good news" and the kingdom as soon as we all "get it".

Answer 3

The fact still remains that though there are a few different wordings of what happened the over all story is still the same....Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all have the same stories but from a differnt perspectives they all say the same thing just i different words....If you and 2 other people witnessed an accident and it did not go to court till 2 years later and you all said practically the sae thing just in different words then which one would be lying just because the exact same words were not used.... What if what you said that day int he court room varied by 6 words from what yousaid the actual day would that mean you were lying in court or did you lie the day of the accident???

Answer 4

You are kidding me.

Greek mythology is full of events with multiple eye-witnesses.


Get real with the bible here. How many courts of law would accept the account of alleged eyewitnesses written after their death by someone who is biased?

The bible is a kludge of documents written from other documents that were all written after anyone who was there was dead. It has subsequently been mistranslated, edited several times and revised to 'correct' the meaning several times.


Face it, the Odyssey and the Iliad are more consistent documents and have a stronger relationship to documented events people and places.

By your 'logic' that would make Zeus, Aphrodite, Hermes, Poseidon, et al. the true gods.

Answer 5

Disagree...ALL religions have "eyewitness accounts" of prophets, miracles, etc. They may call them different things, but that's what they are.

Check out witnesses at a court trial. All will give testimony that differs... can anyone pick out the one that is telling the truth? Are ANY of them telling the truth?

Eyewitness testimony means nothing. AND the fact that most of the books of the bible were written WELL AFTER the events documented, so they cannot be eyewitness accounts.

Answer 6

There were 8 eyewitnesses to Joseph Smiths golden plates. They even signed their names.

By the way, there are no claimed eyewitnesses in the NT, aside from Paul and the author of Revelation, both of whom claim their eyewitness were in the form of a vision.

Answer 7

No. The various Biblical accounts don't agree (too many inconsistencies). And just because the authors CLAIMED there were supposedly "multiple eyewitnesses" doesn't make it true.

Answer 8

The same way you explain all the eyewitnesses that saw Luke Skywalker receive his medal in Star Wars IV.

Answer 9

Yes, and every year millions of kids "witness" the magic of The Santy Claus.

Rubbish.

"god" is nothing more than a nonsense word created by man to explain away all of the things we can't yet understand.

Religion is a disease of the mind, born of fear, which has done nothing but bring untold misery down upon the human race.

Answer 10

there are no contemporary writings by eyewitnesses. the gospels were written down decades later. more telling, tho, despite the fact that several prolific historians and commentators were in judea at the time, none of them mentioned jesus and the great crowds that supposedly followed him. all of the non-christian writings that are cited as proof of a living jesus were by people who were aware of the cult, and repeated hearsay about it.