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Originally Posted by Biochemist
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.
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Let's break that down. For the non-religious folks, they believe a man named Jesus lived when the Bible says he did and that this man named Jesus was crucified, and some of those same people believe Jesus's tomb was later found empty. Nothing Godly about any of that. One can believe everything in there - all of the history stuff - and still not believe in the supernatural baggage attached to it.
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Biochemist: I was going to reference Antony Flew as one of those atheist scholars, but he recently converted to thieism (specifically Deism).
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In a nutshell, a very old philosopher who was tricked into changing his position, which was largely his own fault for blindly accepting the one-sided distortions he was fed, then said he was just too old to look at the evidence anymore to see just how badly he had been misled or if he needed to change his position again.
