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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Re: Who rose from the dead?
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 15:52:24 EST
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> > Did Jesus rise from the dead?  Or do some documents simply *say* that Jesus
> > rose from the dead?
> 
> Most of human history is written down in documents.  I guess we can't believe
> any of those documents either.  So we must not know anything about history.  Why
> study it then?  Why try to learn from past mistakes in history?  It could all
> be a lie.

    Not too bad of a question.  Why believe in Ceasar and not in Christ?  Well,
first of all, I'll grant that it seems likely that someone named Jesus did 
exist.  It's much easier to believe that such and such a Roman emporer did
something mundane than it is to believe that someone walked on water ( or 
insert your favorite miracle.)  Also, there were several hundred years of
human history where a very politically powerful entity, which had a vested
interest in maintaining the divinity of christ, and which was known to be
totally unscrupulous (remember the crusades?), was the main repository of the
records which survive today.  Is it any wonder that we doubt the accuracy of
those records?

Jeff Sonntag
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