Can the Resurrection be disproved?

[EZweber]

There are rebuttals regarding this topic, involving a time delay announcing the Resurrection, which coincided with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, that is, 50 days later, the Pentecost, recounted in the Book of Acts. As a result, no positive identification would be possible.

Of course, if you believe the recounting that the tomb was found empty (three days later?), that is based on your Christian faith.

They could have found out where the tomb was. And my belief that the tomb was found empty is based on the fact that there is no evidence to the contrary that I have seen.

 

[po18guy]

I find it hard to join a cult which practices human sacrifice, but easy to leave it after feeling revulsion witnessing the human sacrifice first hand. It this a sign that the cult is true?

Rather, this is only a sign that you fundamentally misunderstand Christianity. It seems that you have been taught by those who must - absolutely must - disprove Christianity in order for their religion to be true.

 

[Zaccheus]

So of course they could NOT just go back to being fishermen because they had committed their lives and fortunes to Jesus even to the point of martyrdom

Gospel of John 21: 3.

After Christ had manifested Himself to them, Simon Peter decided to go fishing.

 

[Zaccheus]

There are rebuttals regarding this topic, involving a time delay announcing the Resurrection, which coincided with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, that is, 50 days later, the Pentecost,

There was no such delay.
The Pharisees were engaged in active attempts at a coverup within a day or so of the Resurrection.
Christ appeared to many people, sometimes in large groups, over the next forty days.
Pentecost was a very important event but by no means was it the first announcement of the Resurrection.

 

[EZweber]

Again, as I stated less clearly in a previous post, you don’t die for something you made up. The Apostles were either raving lunatics or right.

 

[JMMJ]

There is no evidence for any “view”. It is a story that has been passed down. Either you believe it, as the truth, or you don’t. You can’t prove it either way.

 

[SalamKhan]

Rather, this is only a sign that you fundamentally misunderstand Christianity.

Umm, I wasn’t referring to Christianity when I mentioned the cult which practices human sacrifice. I mentioned it to question your claim that true faith is difficult to join & easy to leave.

It seems that you have been taught by those who must - absolutely must - disprove Christianity in order for their religion to be true.

No…get over yourself.

 

[meltzerboy2]

He needed a vacation.

Seriously though, don’t the Gospel accounts differ on such things?

 

[meltzerboy2]

This is not revealed in Acts?

 

[meltzerboy2]

Let’s not be rude. We are both non-Catholic guests on a Catholic Forum. On such a Forum, we should expect Catholics (and other Christians) to defend their faith in diverse ways.

 

[SalamKhan]

Let’s not be rude

I didn’t mean to be rude, sorry. He claimed I was doing something which I wasn’t, and I had a little knee-jerk reaction to his pretence. I’m normally very polite, but sometimes I could be too blunt in my responses.

 

[meltzerboy2]

No problem. We all get excited, especially when defending our religion.

 

[Moose]

What a beautiful exercise for the simple minded, simple hearted and the badly catchechized.
Let’s jump on a RC message board and troll the deceit of that faith’s basic tenet.
Let us all propagandize by pontificating through so-called logic and science an argument that refutes that which is neither.
Let us walk away feeling so much better about ourselves because we are profanely and secularly so wise and profound…

Poppycock - get behind me Satan.

 

[GiftofMercy]

Supposedly they were from James the Just’s followers.

There were many different groups. People had heard about Jesus in the Roman Mediterranean and were discussing just who He was and what the Resurrection meant.
These included people with varying degrees of theories such as Jesus wasn’t really human , Jesus wasn’t really God, Jesus was a prophet or an angel or something in between.
Hot topic amongst the Jews and the Gentiles.

I find it hard to join a cult which practices human sacrifice, but easy to leave it after feeling revulsion witnessing the human sacrifice first hand. It this a sign that the cult is true?

Which cult is this? And when you witnessed the human sacrifice first hand, did you go to the police, this is murder. Why were you involved?

 

[GiftofMercy]

More specific please. When were the Ebonites established? Were they ever supported by the Apostles? Why do they say he only rose spiritually? What is their evidence? Is it better than the biblical texts? This is all very important.

Ezweber, read up on the Council of Trent and why it was convened and on Early Christianity and the many what we now regard as heresies, being discussed during the first three hundred years or so.

 

[Dan_Defender]

‘For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.’ - 1 Corinthians 1:22-23

 

[Isearch]

There were many different groups. People had heard about Jesus in the Roman Mediterranean and were discussing just who He was and what the Resurrection meant.
These included people with varying degrees of theories such as Jesus wasn’t really human , Jesus wasn’t really God, Jesus was a prophet or an angel or something in between.
Hot topic amongst the Jews and the Gentiles.

If a purported followers of Jesus in the earliest centuries didn’t believe in the physical Resurrection, the central argument for the truthfulness of Jesus’ teachings and the central belief of the Christian faith are called into question. This is why it is important that this truthfulness must be established. The Jews have their argument (admittedly strong argument) for their central belief in the national revelation that had happened on Mt. Sinai. I don’t know about Islam, let @SalamKhan provide proof for it.

 

[GiftofMercy]

If a purported followers of Jesus in the earliest centuries didn’t believe in the physical Resurrection, the central argument for the truthfulness of Jesus’ teachings and the central belief of the Christian faith are called into question.

Do you know much of the Early Christians, and the environment that Christianity was being practiced in before the Council of Trent? It is a huge topic and worthy of its own thread.

 

[Neithan]

Hypothetically, if they found some fossils of the bones of Jesus of Nazareth, that would disprove it, obviously. I don’t know how they would ascertain that they were the remains of Jesus of Nazareth, but if they could, then he didn’t resurrect. Christianity would persist though, since even today you have some Christians believing in a “spiritual” not a physical resurrection.

^ If that were to happen I would become a Noahide, personally.

 

[GiftofMercy]

Hypothetically, if they found some fossils of the bones of Jesus of Nazareth, that would disprove it, obviously. I don’t know how they would ascertain that they were the remains of Jesus of Nazareth, but if they could, then he didn’t resurrect. Christianity would persist though, since even today you have some Christians believing in a “spiritual” not a physical resurrection.

^ If that were to happen I would become a Noahide, personally.

There is a family tomb dating to the time of Jesus that has names on the tombs matching those of the Holy Family. However, those names were common back then. These tombs do have some people talking.