Re: logic makes a comeback

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Thu, 05 Jun 1997 14:19:29 -0600

At 11:59 AM 6/5/97 EDT, you wrote:
>Pim writes:
>
><<Of course they had a compelling reason to lie if Jesus was not the
>son of god.>>
>
>What was that compelling reason? The fact that Jesus was not who he said he
>was? They were compelled to make up a story about a resurrection, one that
>sent them to persecution, and eventually to death. All of them?

1) Perhaps. People have certainly done more irrational things.

2) Maybe they really believed that there *was* a resurrection. Jesus seemed
like a fairly intelligent guy; I don't find it hard to believe that he
could have either tricked them into thinking that they saw a resurrection,
or simply convinced them that he was resurrected.

3) Perhaps they were afraid that they would be killed if their lie was exposed.

>This is an unreasonable supposition. Or maybe I'm missing something. What was
>the motive for all of them to lie, IYO?

Fear of the reactions of the people who had been lied to.

><<Coincidence cannot be used to show the supernatural part of the gospel
>merely the historical nature of the account.>>
>
>But if you have reliable, historical testimony of the miraculous, why do you
>reject it?

We don't have such testimony.

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