Atheists, according to Jesus Himself, if you personally saw Him rise from the dead, would you believe?

Question

You can look up the answer in the Gospel of Luke Chapter 16

Answer 1

maybe if I did perhaps
but I didn't and apparently no one bothered to tell other writers at the time that it had happened

all you have is your religious book as evidence

Answer 2

Believe what? Your question is open ended. Would I believe he 'rose from the dead'?

Several years ago I technically died multiple times and yet here I am. I have documented medical evidence and living witnesses.

Have you taken in a magic show recently? Most magicians do better than that with no props at all. If I saw someone claiming to "rise from the dead" I would probably say 'David Blain could do it better.

This falls well into the category of the the old play on words. "I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it."

But don't walk away smugly thinking you've proved the tired old "no proof would convince the non believer". Because the fact is that if there is a god by the Christian definition then wouldn't he know what would convince anyone? I'm open to being convinced but no human could convince me. The proof of god would only be in god. So when he decides to convince me here I am. And I don't need to know what would convince me because if he shows up he will know.

Answer 3

Just like a Christian asking questions that they think they're the only ones with the answer to.

I have an answer to your question though. Yes.

But that'll never happen.

Would you hold your breath until you stop relying on faith to prove your fairy tales? You can't, because you're weak and your opinions are half-felt. You'd exhale before even trying saying that god didn't want you to know right then. Who knows, if you hold your breath long enough you'll pass out and have a vision. Or maybe you'll just smack your head off a coffee table and knock some sense into that empty melon of yours. Have a great day, and good luck with the faith thing. Or lack thereof.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

first of all "according to Jesus Himself" is an assumption. Just because you attribute that (or any) verse to him does not make it so - nor does just saying so in a book constitute proof for anyone who does not accept that book as true.

that is called circular logic, my friend. To a non-Christian, it's the same as: "I believe everything Fred says; Fred never lies. I know this is true because Fred said so."

I myself do not know what Jesus looked like (certainly not like the image the Italian painters invented 1.5 millenia later), and I'm not a medical examiner or doctor, so I wouldn't necessarily know for sure if any corpse as presented was actually dead - Jesus or otherwise.

Answer 6

Believe what? If I saw a stage magician "rise from the dead" after being "dead" for three days, would I believe it was "real" - or an illusion?

If an illusionist like Criss Angel can pull off that trick (and I'm sure he could) would you still believe?

Answer 7

If I saw it with my own eyes and Jesus allowed me to take reasonable measures to rule out that it was a fake, then I probably would believe.

However, I'm not going to believe some second-hand account from a book because I know too well the huge human capacity for deluding themselves and others...

Answer 8

I can show you another book that's about 3,000 years old that describes someone rising from the dead. It's called the Epic of Hammurabi. If you personally saw him do that, would you believe?

Answer 9

Maybe, may not, You would need to prove to me that it is Jesus and not somebody elses. What if is was anther person rasied from the dead by a necromancer. Pro to me that is was jeasus Gods son and I would believe.

Answer 10

I'd believe that I was either trippin' out on some serious sh1t, dreaming, I turned into a mental case, a prank, or that zombies are taking over the world.

So yeah...I'd believe one of those things....why do you ask? And if this isn't the answer you were expecting, clarify on WHAT we'd believe....^_^

Answer 11

I've personally seen a guy produce a dove out of thin air, but I don't believe that really happened.