Here is another discussion regarding faith which I like to share with all of you: christianity.stackexchange/questions/2117/are-faith-and-proof-mutually-exclusive Christian: Must something be unprovable to permit faith in it? Is it possible to have faith in something which is certain provable fact?. No I do not think so. When New Testament scholars decide on the validity of Jesus resurrection they do so on the basis of historical facts. What are these facts I can imagine someone ask? 1.Well the first fact is that Jesus was crucified around around 30 AD. (This is probably the most uncontroversial fact about Jesus.) There are various 1st century historians like Josephus that attest to this and of course all the eye witness accounts in the NT. 2.Then after a few days his tomb was found empty by some of his woman followers. The account of which we find in Luke 23:55-24:11 . Now we are left with an event that needs explaining. How did the tomb become empty? Many New Testament scholars posit then the idea that his bodily resurrection was the best explanation for this empty tomb. Now not everyone might believe this and it does not prove the resurrection to everyone, but it definitely gives sound and rational basis for a belief in Christs divinity. We are very privileged as Christians to have a religion that makes historical claims that are not ambiguous by nature but can be verified on a historical basis. So in closing. No I do not think faith and proof are mutually exclusive. I think you need proof to have any conviction in the miraculous and I think we have that. Atheist answer: I dont think that concluding an empty tomb being proof of a resurrection is anywhere near rational, there are so many other possibilities. Another problem is that you relied on the Bible to conclude there was a body in a tomb in the first place which is a problem (circular reasoning?) since the Bible is the thing in question. The empty tomb needs explaining and without going into detail about all the theories about that I just skipped to the general consensus.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 02:34:17 +0000
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