Your confusing mythical beings with real beings. Jesus was real and came to the earth and so was Mary. No other religion has the testimony that the new testament has. The fact that the miracles performed by Jesus were even witnessed by his most hated enemies and people that didnt believe in him is just one point of reason that isnt just about faith. Saul of tarsus was the biggest killer of christians yet he himself converted when he saw the transformed body of Christ. Peter Stoner, an expert mathametician set out to find the odds of Jesus Christ fullfilling all of the messianic prophicies and the odds came out to something like a trillion over a trillion (meaning virtually impossible by chance).
Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, Peter Stoner, has calculated the probability of one man fulfilling the major prophecies made concerning the Messiah. The estimates were worked out by twelve different classes representing some 600 university students.
The students carefully weighed all the factors, discussed each prophecy at length, and examined the various circumstances which might indicate that men had conspired together to fulfill a particular prophecy. They made their estimates conservative enough so that there was finally unanimous agreement even among the most skeptical students.
However Professor Stoner then took their estimates, and made them even more conservative. He also encouraged other skeptics or scientists to make their own estimates to see if his conclusions were more than fair. Finally, he submitted his figures for review to a committee of the American Scientific Affiliation. Upon examination, they verified that his calculations were dependable and accurate in regard to the scientific material presented (Peter Stoner, Science Speaks, Chicago: Moody Press, 1969, 4).
To say that believing in Christianity is the same as believing in other religions and its about mythical beings is being a bit ignorant and it shows that you actually didnt study this area much. There is also no book in ancient times that comes even close to the historicity of the bible.
For example you can trace the first witness described in pauls first letter to the corinthian church to within 1 to 5 years after Jesus's Resurrection.
In main stream historian academia this simply allows no time for a myth to evolve or the story to be changed around. Take a look at the history of alexander the great which was written 200 to 300 years after he died and yet most people dont doubt that alexander existed. The problem these days is that the media and academia has been hijacked by a secular materialistic thinking that is first flawed in their belief in empiricism is the only way to discover truth and yet as my friend on the other forum has continually proved, empricism itself is self refuting.
Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, Peter Stoner, has calculated the probability of one man fulfilling the major prophecies made concerning the Messiah. The estimates were worked out by twelve different classes representing some 600 university students.
The students carefully weighed all the factors, discussed each prophecy at length, and examined the various circumstances which might indicate that men had conspired together to fulfill a particular prophecy. They made their estimates conservative enough so that there was finally unanimous agreement even among the most skeptical students.
However Professor Stoner then took their estimates, and made them even more conservative. He also encouraged other skeptics or scientists to make their own estimates to see if his conclusions were more than fair. Finally, he submitted his figures for review to a committee of the American Scientific Affiliation. Upon examination, they verified that his calculations were dependable and accurate in regard to the scientific material presented (Peter Stoner, Science Speaks, Chicago: Moody Press, 1969, 4).
To say that believing in Christianity is the same as believing in other religions and its about mythical beings is being a bit ignorant and it shows that you actually didnt study this area much. There is also no book in ancient times that comes even close to the historicity of the bible.
For example you can trace the first witness described in pauls first letter to the corinthian church to within 1 to 5 years after Jesus's Resurrection.
In main stream historian academia this simply allows no time for a myth to evolve or the story to be changed around. Take a look at the history of alexander the great which was written 200 to 300 years after he died and yet most people dont doubt that alexander existed. The problem these days is that the media and academia has been hijacked by a secular materialistic thinking that is first flawed in their belief in empiricism is the only way to discover truth and yet as my friend on the other forum has continually proved, empricism itself is self refuting.
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