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The Roman empire tried hard to quell Christianity before it ever got started.Whether sympathetic, antagonistic, or merely fascinated as a neutral observer, there was plenty of motivation to go and see for oneself that the tomb was empty.
David Blaine has produced illusions that we do not know how to duplicate. He has also accomplished physically extreme feats, such as fasting for 44 days and holding his breath for 17 minutes.
Suppose he were to die and that three days later some of his fans claimed his grave was empty. Don't you think someone would bother to go check if it actually happened? Couldn't it be an illusion or perhaps some other extreme physical feat in which he has feigned death?
So why is it that Jesus, who apparently performed more miracles than all of the books in the whole world could record, was said to have risen from the dead and yet no one bothered to go look? Whether sympathetic, antagonistic, or merely fascinated as a neutral observer, there was plenty of motivation to go and see for oneself that the tomb was empty. And yet there is no record of anyone visiting the tomb after Easter Sunday, and there was certainly no record of a neutral party making the trip.
Or did skeptics actually go visit? Why would it be the case that skeptics actually did visit the tomb, and yet the gospels did not record this? That would seem to cut against the narrative of the gospels, since everyone - including the disciples - were always skeptical of Jesus, and the gospels were always making a point of this.
The complete lack of an investigation for a miraculous event is in fact evidence that no miracle occurred in the first place.
To the first two questions I answer "yes". To the third I will ask you to provide evidence for the truth claim you made, namely, that no one checked the tomb. What evidence do you have to support that knowledge claim?
What do you expect that such evidence would look like? A legal document from Pontus Pilate saying that the tomb was investigated?
People who were sympathetic or merely fascinated would have told the truth, which is the record we have. So if an antagonistic person investigated and found an empty tomb, what do you think they would do? Report the truth which was against their interest? Are you disappointed that no antagonist was able to successfully lie about the resurrection?
The empty tomb would not be very interesting. Not even the women who discovered the empty tomb saw this as evidence of anything supernatural. They needed to see the resurrected Jesus to understand that the empty tomb was the result of a miracle.
One of those books mentions Jesus appearing to a group of several hundred followers before ascending to heaven from a mountain top. I assume those followers gathered in expectation of seeing Jesus.
The Roman empire tried hard to quell Christianity before it ever got started.
So if Jesus was still in the tomb, why didn't the Romans just go and get His body?
And if those guarding his tomb were subject to death, would you still feel the same way? The punishment for a Roman soldier falling asleep at post in that time was crucifixion. Bother to go look? The Roman's stationed guards just to prevent anyone stealing his body because he said he would rise in three days.
Why would non-Christians write about an event that would oppose their beliefs? If those that didn't believe in David Blane were to write the history - they would leave out any mention of his tomb being empty. How easily people forget that history is written to support those in charge, not the opposition.
OK. If you want to play like that, what evidence do you have for God's existence? None.
What are you talking about?Why is there no account of an antagonist visiting the tomb in the gospels?
What are you talking about?
Antagonists hung around the tomb for three days and three nights.
Shifting the burden. Implies that I am playing games.
That's about what I expected.
Carry on.
I'm sure Romans were all over that tomb like a shrewdness of scientists on a pig's tooth.I'm asking why no one went to the EMPTY tomb.
I'm sure Romans were all over that tomb like a shrewdness of scientists on a pig's tooth.
Based on the opposite being true.Why are you sure of this? Based on what exactly?
Please answer the question in the OP.
OK. If you want to play like that, what evidence do you have for God's existence? None.
You see, you make arguments and appeals to reason to conclude that God exists. I am appealing to reason, and when you say that it's like I'm plowing with a donkey.
I would assume somebody took the corpse. That's what the women assumed according to one of the stories. Even if somebody said "here is the resurrected Jesus", I would be suspicious unless I had been close enough during his life to know for certain that it was truly him.So if you saw a guy resurrecting the dead, walking on water, multiplying food, healing the blind, etc, and then you were told his grave was empty a day and a half after his execution, you'd just be like, "Oh, whatever, nothing to see here..."?
I would assume somebody took the corpse. That's what the women assumed according to one of the stories. Even if somebody said "here is the resurrected Jesus", I would be suspicious unless I had been close enough during his life to know for certain that it was truly him.
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