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Originally Posted by orbsycli
"it's a day to celebrate the ressurection of jesus"
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This is a fair reduction to a single phrase. The resurrection itself was a reasonably complicated fulfillment of a long list of items that were prophesied beforehand for about a thousand years. It carries of lot of metaphorical, philsophical and spiritual load. It is sort of tough to squeeze it into a single short sentence.
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...and somebody just tried telling me that it's not just christianity that believes this, it's written in history that jesus was ressurected.....i am not buying any of this.
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The historical evidence for the historicity of Jesus and the resurrection is strong. Many folks will argue with this (notably lindagarette on this site) but even a majority of atheist scholars attest to Jesus' historic reality. Many of these atheist scholars also agree that the evidence for the resurrection (or at least an empty tomb) is strong as well.
I was going to reference Antony Flew as one of those atheist scholars, but he recently converted to thieism (specifically Deism).
The apostle Paul (who wrote most of the new testament) did not regard belief in the resurrection as an article of faith (per 1 Cor 15), but rather as a fact. When Paul's comtemporaries asked him whether the resurrection actually happenned, Paul suggested that those people with questions go talk to the people who saw it. The faith issue (from Paul's standpoint) was not the resurrection per se, but related to whether the resurrection
meant something important.
Paul thought it did.
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