Max Margalit said:
Why do people believe that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree?
The term "cosmic zombie" is incorrect. He wasn't an animated corpse, he was brought back to life. That would be like saying if your heart stopped and someone shocked you with a Defibrolator "ZOMG ZOMBIE!!!oneone". That isnt to say Jesus didnt die. His death was verified by his followers and by Roman Soldiers who were experianced in crucifiction. Modern Medical scientists also state that it would be impossible to survive crucifiction in addition to 3 days in a tomb without food,water, or medical care. Also keep in mind over 5000 people saw him ressurected and accended into heaven. There is no way this could be a mass hallucination because of the basic psycological principals that govern hallucination. Another reason people belive is the accuracy of prophesy in the bible between the old and new testament. Here is an example I have heard.
Say you were to take a quarter, put a special mark on it,, and set it down in the state of Texas. Now you start filling the state untill there is 2 feet of quarters over the entire state. You mix the special one with the rest of course. Say somone were to walk into the state, blindfolded, reach down into this sea of quarters, and pull out the ONE QUARTER with the special mark the first try.
Those are the odds of just 1 of those prophesies being fufilled. Mathmatically it is 1 in 10 to the 5th power. Now consider that scholars have found that 2000 out of 2500 prophecies in the bible have been fufiled. The remaing 500 are for the "end times."
Thats all that Ill tackle for now. If you want more reasons or have more questions on this, feel free to PM me or we can discuss this in a religeous thread.
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