But those references are all from the Bible. As usual, you assume the Bible is true, and use that assumption to "prove" the Bible is true.
Nope.
You need it to not be true.
I've spent the past 45+ years learning that it's true, through acting on what Jesus said, and verified its veracity.
I'm simply explaining to you that's what you need to do in order to know that it's true, for yourself.
Or is that your problem.... You DON'T actually WANT to know that it's true, and speaks truth to all who will believe him, giving them life in exchange for their death?
You don't want peace with God, and you don't want to become his adopted child, you don't want to enjoy eternal life?
Well, ok. If that's what you want...
Not really sure why you'd want to perish, and suffer the shame and everlasting contempt. Especially when everything Jesus has to give us leads to a quality of life that exceeds everything we could possibly fathom.
That works fine for you - you were conditioned as a kid to blindly believe it is true. I was not.
Well, that's obviously not true.
Your childhood beliefs, imposed on you since childhood are clearly forcing you to not actually think clearly.
I left the church I grew up in 50 years ago.
So, what's your excuse?
You provide plenty of specific quotes from the Bible. But when I ask why you think the Bible is true, other than assuming it is true, you are anything but specific. Here is what you said:
"Experience, and human history.
45+ years of experience and having studied history in high school, college and on my own."
You cannot not get much less specific than that!
What part of experience and having studied human history in high school and college is vague?
Didn't you go to high school and college?
Or perhaps the problem here isn't that you did or did not attend both.
It's that you were told what to think, but never taught HOW to think, and why.
In my high school and college, and perhaps it's just a western United states thing...... we were taught how to think.
Well. That reminds me of Orson Welles book 1984.
Pity you grew up in Britain.
But weighing against that is all the people who did not get this miraculous recovery.
So, their lack of experience is somehow definitive proof that mine is invalid?
Wow.
That takes a special kind of ignorance to believe that.
This ongoing routine of yours to dismiss anything that doesn't fit your biases and preconceptions is indeed impressive.
Your dedication to it is even more so.
See there you going being specific, but assuming the Bible is true.
I've already spent 45+ years of my life learning to know that it's true.
You're being given the invitation to learn for yourself.
If you're too frightened to learn, then I can only say that you have more to be afraid of by dismissing YHVH than you do by engaging Jesus.
Why should I believe the Bible is true?
Because it is true.
Why do YOU believe the Bible is true?
Because I've been learning for the past 45 years that it's true.
By action, by learning, by historical study, and by actually visiting the land of Israel.
Can you answer that without assuming it is true? No.
There it is.
That assuming that under no circumstances whatsoever is it possible to find out the bible is true apart from assumptions.
For someone who is desperate to make everyone who comes to Jesus wrong, you sure assume a lot!
You're like the king of assuming.
Where are you getting this nonsense from Steve?
Experience.
How are you concluding I "never actually studied the history of the past several thousand years of humanity" from my asking you to support the historicity of the empty tomb?
Because it's contained within the annals of history.
So, if you've never seen it, then you obviously never studied history.
Oh, wait. I just remembered...
You actually are afraid of learning.
You've repeatedly stated that there are certain authors that you absolutely refuse to learn from.
Sorry. I'd forgotten about that.
Wow, so you evidence for an event that supposedly happened in ca. AD 30 in Jerusalem is the history of Europe from over three centuries later, and over 700 miles away!
You don't actually understand the nature of the idea of throwing a rock in a pond?
Do yourself a favor and go find a pond, during a calm time, and throw a pebble into the pond, and then consider how far out the ripples travel.
It's the same with the human experience.
The ripple of the resurrection made it all the way to China too. As it did India, Africa, Europe, Britain, .....
I would love to know what your "Cold-Case" detective would have to say about that. Imagine a detective trying to solve a murder by looking at evidence from so very far away. I wonder... do you ever think before you post?
Why don't you read and find out for yourself?
Or, as you've stated before--- are you too afraid to learn from people who don't fit your biases?
I do not need to know everything to be able to spot BS.
Well, considering you're full of it, that's no surprise.... When it's filling you to your mind, it's all your eyes can see.
You clearly have no way to substantiate the empty tomb, and so have to pretend that events from hundreds of miles away and centuries later somehow, magically makes it true.
Sounds like a personal bias that justifies your ignorance. Well, your dedication to your ignorance is indeed impressive.
I guarantee it won't fly come judgment day. That great big--- oh sh9t, that passes between your lips on that day won't help.
You tell me, Steve. You are the one who thinks European history proves the empty tomb.
As does Chinese, African, Indian, etc.... history.
The thing you don't seem to comprehend is that the nature of the resurrection is pretty overwhelming. People who were witnesses went to their deaths, refusing to recant, when recanting would have been all that would've been needed to spare their lives.
The entirety of human history was impacted by this lone guy who was killed on a roman cross, and then 3 days later, raised again.
As such, I'm thinking that you're having to work really hard to silence it. The irony is--- you're not the first, nor will you be the last. And all who were serious about seeking to silence it, and did the research to achieve that silence wound up being convinced he actually did rise, and became followers of Jesus.
Those who just didn't want anything to do with it ignored, dismissed, and blew it off. It was them who died utterly ignominious deaths, filled with misery.
As you've repeatedly been invited to do your own investigation, and have refused, I'm thinking you're of the latter bunch, and lack the courage to actually learn the truth.
The issue is whether you blindly believe what you are told to believe, or whether you can think for yourself.
Something that you should find out by reading and doing what Jesus said.
I'll be praying for you.