Recent content by Geo

Well, to begin with, Jesus is the only religious teacher who isn't dead! If that isn't enough, perhaps the fact that his teachings are markedly different from others' could be. Humans are inherently religious, and like to invent belief systems that help us make sense of our existence. The mark...

@BetteTheRed Ain't that the truth. Some folks find apologetics helps give them the intellectual permission to believe or not. It can also be used to assess various belief systems. However, it alone can never lead anyone to come to the "truth". Only those who have eyes to see and eyes to hear...

Yeah, I feel you. It's a wonder that a guy who posts such un-sophisticated statements can garner so many "likes". @chansen displays the hallmark logically fallacious tactics of a person who doesn't have a response to certain arguments, so he resorts to ridicule and ad hominems. If someone...

Wouldn't it be nice if it were that simple? If he makes a claim to a certain church that these folks are still around, it is one that can easily be verified by simply asking them.

Actually, if you read my post more carefully, you would have realized that wasn't my argument. But I get it, attacking straw men is much easier. I mentioned the more than 500 eyewitnesses with respect to the event of the resurrection. You can't make a claim like that in public without it...

@Mystic, you really nailed it in the last of your posts! @Pavlos Maros simply has nothing on you, since the quality of (their) posts declined rapidly into a sort of bizarre, illogical denial of the facts you presented. I think it just reveals that even if you could offer satisfactory "proof"...

It's not just me that acknowledges that the New Testament documents are historical. Even atheist historians will give you that. Also, I believe there is a rich philosophical case for Christian truth as a whole. The fact that the books of the New Testament are the most well-documented and...

Haha, well even though I know I could be wrong, I have undeniably made up my mind about my belief that Jesus is who he claimed he was!

Sorry folks...I've been super busy and today I'm on the couch laid out with a head cold. Alas, I will try to respond now to some of the many comments if I can rouse my brain to a more acute state of consciousness!

Oh? Please explain. Also, a caveat: I don't have to work hard to convince anyone of my beliefs. I choose to believe them because I feel Christian truth makes the most sense of the world we live in, and I believe there is a rich philosophical case for it. I cannot prove any of it to be true. I...

That's a counter argument? Come on chansen...that's all I get??

@BetteTheRed Quite the contrary. Having specifics such as numbers as well as other fine points (such as smells that were said to "fill the room") in historical documents only strengthens their credibility. What needs to be understood is that the Bible isn't just a single, cohesive unit. It is...

@chansen, You are correct in saying they aren't direct eyewitness accounts. However, they are directly based on eyewitness accounts. You are also right in claiming that many books were written "decades" later. It is commonly accepted that Mark, the earliest gospel, was written in 70AD/CE - a...

@BetteTheRed Simply upon viewing the New Testament texts as what they are - a collection of ancient historical documents, most of which are comprised of historical accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus as well as the early church (gospels/Acts); or letters written to the churches for...

@GeoFee Only inasmuch as "allegory" is taken to be synonymous with "parable". Parable: "...a short story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson; especially : one of the stories told by Jesus Christ and recorded in the Bible" - Merriam Webster Dictionary My point above is simply that...