DogmaHunter
Code Monkey
100% False.
You really oughta let Christians speak for themselves instead of listening to secular authorities speaking on their behalf and putting words in their mouth.
Religious belief, is belief in unfalsifiable claims.
Such belief, is by definition blind.
The whole point of the Gospel is as it has always has been for 2000 years from the first. That listeners hear and believe the testimony
Indeed. That listeners just believe the story.
Of Jesus's resurrection
Which is unfalsifiable.
Based on trusting. In the character. And Upstanding Nature. Of those who have evangelised them.
None of those properties make what they claim or believe, accurate.
And I'll point out also that believing that they had those qualities/properties, is also a matter of faith that these texts are accurate.
Ultimately, originating in the first 12 Apostles. Who claimed to be direct eye witnesses to the resurrection? And the risen Christ after the crucifixion.
Many people, claim a lot of things.
These are the claims. Are you saying that those claims are evidence of themselves?
There is nothing blind about this. eye witness testimony IS evidence in every court of law on Planet Earth.
Of the lowest quality.
People can be mistaken, lying, deceived,...
1 piece of objective evidence contradicting the testimony of 100 people, will instantly discard those 100 testimonies.
Christians believe the eye witness testimony of Matthew, Mark, Luke John Peter James Jude. Paul. And the rest.
On faith, yes.
That is believing in DIRECT EVIDENCE
No.
, admissible in every court of law on Earth.
No.
If someone in a court claims to have seen, first hand, how someone was dead and then became alive again, then no court is going to consider that enough evidence to accept that somebody dead actually became alive again.
They might accept that you really believe that that is what you saw, but they will not believe that that is ACTUALLY what you saw.
For obvious reasons.
Having said that all that...
There are thousands of people, alive today, who you can go and talk to who will tell you that they personally were abducted by aliens and had weird experiments performed on them on some space ship. They'll pass lie detector tests and everything.
So, do you believe them? Why not?
Every Court of law in the solar system. Every known physical. Court of law in the universe.
No. Instead, not a single one.
That is NOT blind faith
Yes, it is.
That is trusting faith in the character. Credibility. Sanity. Intelligence. Upstanding character. Of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and everyone else.
Yes, it's "just believing" the texts.
I guess you could say that's not believing in. Tangible PHYSICAL evidence. But it is believing in direct eyewitness. Testimony.
It's just believing in claimed eye witnesses. You also have no evidence that they were eye witnesses. You believe that. As part of your religion.
In a court when you claim to have seen a murder, the other side might question you on your whereabouts so that you can prove that you were actually in that place at that time. See in a court, you can actually QUESTION A WITNESS and corroborate his claims with objective evidence and evaluate the accuracy / likelyness of the claims with that.
You can't do anything of the sort with the claims of the bible.
And granting they were eye witnesses, it's also just believing that they weren't mistaken, deceived or lying.
Considered DIRECT EVIDENCE in every known Court of law in the Cosmos.
you should visit the website "innocense project". It's a collection of cases of people in prison set free after it was proven that they were actually innocent.
All cases I have ever seen on there, were originally wrongly convicted based on eyewitness testimony. And not just with evil intent. Just like I said: people being just mistaken, deceived or lying.
What set them free, every single time: objective evidence. It trumps "testimony" every day of the week.
Moreover, there is tangible direct geological evidence. In the sedimentary layers at the bottom of the Dead Sea. Consistent with an earthquake of 5.5 magnitude near Jerusalem in thirty three AD.At exactly the traditionally accepted date of the crucifixion. That actually is hard physical tangible evidence. Corroborating Christian claims.
Someone else already addressed this nonsense apologetic.
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