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I know it would be a hoax
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1 Cor. 15:14-19
I would have you removed from all fellowship for even asking this question.
1 Cor. 15:14-19, 29-32
The OP is a HYPOTHETICAL question. Why is this difficult? Why have I woken up in a Twilight Zone episode where no one has ever heard of a hypothetical question?
Would living as a Christian, e.g., loving enemies and giving to the poor make sense if Christianity were found to be untrue because Christ was not risen?
If the body of Christ were discovered, if the very central tenet of Christianity were found to be untrue, if He weren't raised, but simply died and was buried, what would be your response? How would the news change your life, if at all?
***This is a hypothetical question. We are assuming both that Christ's body is found, and that it can be proven His, for the sake of discussion only.***
It is unscriptural for the body of Jesus to still exist as a corpse! Therefore I would never believe anything otherwise.
For Catholics, such a discovery would indeed shatter the illusion of authority of the ecclesiastical clergy, whose sole claim to authority has been reduced to having gotten the story right in the first place. But even there, after the sex abuses scandals, Christians have learned to be wary of their clergy already.
It is very possible and more than likely that the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church Protestant church and even mosques would not exist in such a counterfactual world.IF Christ was not risen from the dead, THEN the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, all of the Pre-Reformation Churches would not exist. IF that were true, THEN Luther would never have had anything to complain about, Calvin, Zwingli and others would have nothing to reform, and they would sink into oblivion, and all of their followers would have no IDEA of Christianity, because it would NOT EXIST!
Truth, as I presented it, would still exist, and I would still be committed to it.
The truth of Christianity for me then becomes not holding fast to the miracles, even the central miracle of the Resurrection, but to the values of Christ as he lived his life
Wrong! The Body of Christ does exist! It is just not a corpse!
I am not saying that Christianity is not falsifiable. Indeed, absolute proof of the corpse of Jesus would prove that the central claim of Christianity for the past 2000 years have been totally false. Paul himself would be proven to be wrong.Thanks for the reply.
What you said, if I understand you correctly, is that Christianity is not falsifiable because it it nothing more than moralisms. It's all about "values", in other words.
For the apostle Paul, the resurrection of Christ IS Christianity. Christianity stands or falls on that one fact. Is he wrong?
Thanks for the reply.
What you said, if I understand you correctly, is that Christianity is not falsifiable because it it nothing more than moralisms. It's all about "values", in other words.
For the apostle Paul, the resurrection of Christ IS Christianity. Christianity stands or falls on that one fact. Is he wrong?
For the apostle Paul, the resurrection of Christ IS Christianity. Christianity stands or falls on that one fact. Is he wrong?
I would have to believe that the Bible was written by men who were not inspired by God because they had written lies.If the body of Christ were discovered, if the very central tenet of Christianity were found to be untrue, if He weren't raised, but simply died and was buried, what would be your response? How would the news change your life, if at all?
***This is a hypothetical question. We are assuming both that Christ's body is found, and that it can be proven His, for the sake of discussion only.***
Yes, if one knows there is God.Followup question:
Would living as a Christian, e.g., loving enemies and giving to the poor make sense if Christianity were found to be untrue because Christ was not risen?
I cannot remember ever not knowing there was a God, that I was linked to Him somehow, and there was affection/love related to that connection.