(Corrie) wrote
Agreed, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - it cuts
both ways, though. The point here is that the folks with means to
pull off a PR con-job lacked motive - unless that motive was to
discredit the movement. The folks with alleged motive to fake a
resurrection (and that motive is HIGHLY debatable) lacked the means.

It could be a fabrication they failed to disprove and still be false.

Sure, but you still have to have a plausible fabrication. I'm still
waiting for a scenario that fits the facts.

O.K. here it is Corrie. The crusifiction was botched. A roman
soldier, who really didn't like this do-gooder, King of the Jews,
decided to inflict an extra measure of pain right before he was tasked
with terminating the dying display. Instead of just thrusting a spear
up inside him, he decides to hold the head of the spear over a flame,
and lets it get red-hot before percing Jesus. Unbeknownst to him,
this sadistic act cauderizes the wound, his weak pulse is unnoticed,
and he revives himself inside the tomb. He is not liked by the Romans
so he gets a common grave, which would not be closed until it is full
(efficiency) The disiples are shocked, he lives for a few days,
decides to avoid a repeat of this excersize, and "the three men you
admire most, the father son and holy ghost catch the last train for
the coast" and a religion is born.

And I have to hear about this fanciful myth for the rest of my life!

No one is immortal except Barnyard Bob; there were eyewitnesses of him
rising from the dead and it was documented by Pastor Dave, therefore
it HAS to be true. (illogic 101)

pac "holy muzzel water" plyer