Supposed "proof" of Jesus' resurrection:
"Jesus' followers took up the pen and wrote about his life, works, death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. In these documents, we find the most positive words written about Jesus' resurrection..."
(http://www.harvardhouse.com/prophetictech/new/er.htm)
I swear I cannot figure out why believers continue to think that just because something is written in the Bible it is going to convince an atheist that it's a true and factual event. They just can't seem to grasp the idea that to an atheist the Bible is just a book, written by people, just like any other book in existence. It's worse, in fact, than many other books in its credibility. Most books are either written as fiction and admit it, or are written as factual and are verifiable. For example, I might come across a non-fiction book on the formation of snowflakes and I might be skeptical that nature could form such perfect and beautiful patterns on such a tiny scale. But I could, if I wanted to, go out and get myself a microscope and grab some snowflakes and verify for myself that it is indeed true.
Yes, I realize that not all claims are so easy to verify but it still could be done in most cases if you wanted to make the effort. There is the claim, for example, that there is a little black frog that lives only on the top of Roraima, Venezuela, and crawls rather than hops like most frogs do. Although that would be much more difficult to verify I could, if I really wanted to, go to Roraima and verify the frog's existence for myself and, in fact, that is exactly what some people have done since the frog was first discovered.
So a book on snowflake patterns, or a claim about Roraima frogs, can be verified by sources outside themselves. The bible has no such verifiability. They "proof" theists keep offering is the Bible's own claims. That is no more "proof" than a person on the street claiming to be the king of England and offering a letter he wrote stating that he is king as "proof". Sorry, but proof of a claim is not proof of what is being claimed. When are you theists going to get that?
So just give up the idea that, by showing an atheist where in the Bible an event is written about, you are going to convince an atheist that it is proof that the event actually occurred. A passage in the Bible is not proof of a factual event to atheists and never will be no matter how many times you quote it. They only thing you are proving by quoting the Bible is that it was written by people who were racist, sexist, violent, scientifically ignorant, superstitious, and had some very strange ideas about the world in which they lived at the time. But what's the point of proving that to atheists when they already agree with you there?
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