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As vocalist/guitarist John Engelbert somewhat sheepishly admitted in Johnossi's first online bio, "We're not one of those bands that has been struggling in a basement for ten years, dying to catch a break. Things came easily for us." Indeed, after Engelbert and drummer Oskar "Ossi" Bonde formed the pop/rock duo in their native Stockholm, Sweden in 2004, they played only four gigs before signing with a local label and recording a debut album. Although Engelbert played an acoustic guitar exclusively, his arsenal of effects and overdriven amplifiers put Johnossi in the same stylistic ballpark as other guitar-and-drum duos like the Black Keys, White Stripes, and Mr. Airplane Man.
A successful tour with the Soundtrack of Our Lives and critical acclaim for Johnossi's 2006 debut brought the duo to the attention of the Control Group, which reissued the album in America during the fall of 2007. Johnossi supported the release with an American tour alongside the Shout Out Louds. Returning home, Engelbert and Bonde retreated to a studio in the outskirts of Stockholm to record All They Ever Wanted in eight days. The album was released in 2008, displaying the band's growth as a fierce, aggressive rock act. The self-produced Mavericks followed two years later. A bit of a recording hiatus followed before the duo returned in 2014 with the epic Transitions. ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi


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Second Victim in Abandoned House Fire Dies
The second victim in an abandoned house fire in Yakima has died.
The Yakima Fire Department says the man, identified as 49-year-old Danny Garton, passed away at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle this morning.
Garton and another man, 34-year-old Michael Cartwright, were pulled from a burning abandoned home on 5th Avenue in earlier this month.
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Dr. Cris tells me I am no longer a novice at knitting socks. I still feel like a newbie though I am finding them easier and therefore more fun. I am surprised to find I have finished 7 pairs of socks. Here are three of those done since Christmas.
This first pair I gave to my sister Jeanne. They were done using Sunrise Chevron Socks pattern by Carol J. Sulcoski . I really like that pattern and will use it again. The yarn is Patons Kroy Socks FX.
This pair I gave to my mother-in-law. They were done using the Circle Socks pattern by Anne Campbell. They turned out pretty well. The yarn is Premier Yarns Serenity Sock Weight.
This third pair uses the same yarn as the first pair. The pattern is Waterloose Socks by Randi Knudsen. This pair was given to purplesque who found them "mesmerizing."


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ABERDEEN – The Aberdeen School District has hired Leigh Todd as the new Aberdeen Elementary School principal.
Todd is filling the position currently held by Angie Irvin, who will be transferred to a job at the Aberdeen School District's central office next school year.
Todd is currently the Transformational Leader with the School Improvement Grant with the Okolona School District. She has been in education for 22 years.


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WINNIPEG (May 15, 2013)– The 21 players at Canada's national women's team camp will play an all important intra-squad (Red and White) match on Friday May 17 during the 15U Nationals in Regina. Match time is 7:15 p.m. at Evraz Place.
It is the first event for the women's national team program in the post-Olympic season as head coach Arndt Ludwig pares down his roster for the 2013 summer season. Friday's match will be an important of the selection process.
''We are in the final process of selecting the athletes for the next four to eight years,'' said Ludwig, who'll announce the final roster at the end of the month. ''This match in Regina is a great opportunity for me to observe how players perform under pressure. This will help the coaching staff to make the final decisions for the selection.''
Ludwig is also excite about exposing the national program to hundreds of young players from across Canada and hopefully spark some dreams to one day play for Team Canada.
''I am very happy that we are coming to Regina to play a Red White match in front of so many young athletes,'' he said. ''It is good for us that people from all over the country see what we do and that young players get a connection the national team program.''
The Team Canada players arrive from their base in Winnipeg to Regina on Thursday and train that evening as well as Friday morning. On Saturday, they will have a weight training session and sign autographs from noon to 3 p.m. at Evraz Place.
Canadian players for Red and White match on Friday May 17 in Regina
Outside Hitters
Lisa Barclay, Brandon , MB, University of British Columbia
Shanice Marcelle, Victoria BC, UBC
Brittney Page, Vernon BC, Barbar D'X-Elles (Belgium)
Tricia Mayba, Winnipeg, MB, Full-Time Training Centre (Winnipeg)
Marie-Pier Murray- Methot, Quebec City, Montichiari Volley Femminile (Italy)
Marie-Sophie Nadeau, Saint Aime, QC, University of Montreal
Kyla Richey, Robert's Creek, BC, SC Potsdam (Germany)
Krista Zubick, St. Albert, AB, University of Alberta
Sam Clarey, Roseneath, ON, Syracuse University
Middle Blockers
Alicia Perrin, Creston BC, Trinity Western University
Kelly Nyhof, Georgetown, ON, Humber College
Marisa Field, Kelowna BC, Istres Ouest Provence (France)
Jaimie Thibeault, Sylvan Lake AB, E.S. Cannet Rocheville (France)
Tasha Holness, Calgary, AB, Voleil Tomis 2004 Constanta (Romania)
Lucy Charuk, Tsawwassen, BC, ZOK Split 1700 (Croatia)
Megan Cyr, St. Andrews, MB, North Caroline State University
Kelci French, Okotoks AB, Trinity Western Univeristy
Dani Smith, Beaverlodge, AB, Vancouver Island Univeristy
Jennifer Lundquist, Surrey, BC, Montana State Univeristy
Janie Guimond, Becancour, QC, Kopenicker Sport Club (Germany)
Tesca Andrew-Wasylik, Unionville, ON, Full-Time Training Centre (Winnipeg)
Head Coach - Arnd Ludwig
Acting Assistant Coach -Scott Koskie
Athletic Therapist - Julie Dacquay
Nichole Mailey
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The Collector's Roadshow, a company from Lincoln that represents, will be appraising and offering cash for jewelry, electronics, old coins and all kinds of memorabilia 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Wednesday at the Harrisburg American Legion.
Collector's Roadshow spokesman Frank Ross said the company is funded by collectors who have wish lists of items. The roadshow representatives will look over the items and if they believe they have a buyer will offer cash.
Ross said the company also represents collectors of electronics and may make offers on old cell phones or computers.
Offers are made based on market demand, condition, included accessories and original packaging, according to a release from the company. Original packages and accessories are not required, but typically are worth more money.
Other items of interest include all toys made before 1965; war memorabilia like swords, daggers, medals and helmets; silver coins and paper currency; musical instruments both new and used, especially vintage guitars. Other items they will make offers to buy include diamonds, all gold jewelry, broken jewelry, costume jewelry, pocket watches and more.
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Can Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Be Prevented?
Most people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma have no risk factors that can be changed, so there is no way to protect against these lymphomas. For now, the best way to reduce the risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma is to try to prevent known risk factors such as immune deficiency.
Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a preventable cause of immune deficiency. HIV is spread among adults mostly through unprotected sex and by injection drug users sharing contaminated needles. Blood transfusions are now an extremely rare source of HIV infection. Curbing the spread of HIV would prevent many deaths from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Treating HIV with anti-HIV drugs also lowers the chance of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Preventing the spread of the human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus (HTLV-1) could have a great impact on non-Hodgkin lymphoma in areas of the world where this virus is common, such as Japan and the Caribbean region. The virus is rare in the United States but seems to be increasing in some areas. The same strategies used to prevent HIV spread could also help control HTLV-1.
Helicobacter pylori infection has been linked to some lymphomas of the stomach. Treating H. pylori infections with antibiotics and antacids may lower this risk, but the benefit of this strategy has not been proven yet. Most people with H. pylori infection have no symptoms, and some have only mild heartburn. More research is needed to find the best way to detect and treat this infection in people without symptoms.
Another risk factor for non-Hodgkin lymphoma is infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (the cause of infectious mononucleosis, or mono), but there is no known way of preventing this infection.
Some lymphomas are caused by treatment of cancers with radiation and chemotherapy or by the use of immune-suppressing drugs to avoid rejection of transplanted organs. Doctors are trying to find better ways to treat cancer and organ transplant patients without increasing the risk of lymphoma as much. But for now, the benefits of these treatments still usually outweigh the small risk of developing lymphoma many years later.
Some studies have suggested that being overweight or obese may increase your risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Other studies have suggested that a diet high in fat and meats may raise your risk. Staying at a healthy weight and eating a healthy diet may help protect against lymphoma, but more research is needed to confirm this.
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The multiplying power of effective partnerships repeated itself again Tuesday when the private sector and public agencies joined resources to provide 24 classrooms with state-of-the-art instruction technology in the three PUL Alliance counties: Pontotoc, Union and Lee.
The PUL Alliance formed to develop and promote its industrial megasite at Blue Springs in Union County, the land where Toyota operates its 2,000-employee Corolla assembly plant. Toyota made the partnership education-specific with a 10-year, $50 million endowment to enhance education in alliance counties, a gift revealed at the location announcement in February 2007.
The commitment by the technology firm eInstruction and the Appalachian Regional Commission is backed by further assistance from the Three Rivers Planning and Development District, plus the University of Mississippi, which will use its resources to measure outcomes and set the stage for further development.
"Our goal is for every classroom in Three Rivers' eight counties to one day have this technology," commented Randy Kelley, executive director of TRPDD. "Right now, a lot of the classes have elements of the technology, but not entire systems like these that were donated today."
The technology initiative will be implemented along with PEP (Performance Enrichment Program), a program where high school students tutor younger students to close achievement gaps among poor and disadvantaged students.
"We were pleased to help with this grant, because Gov. Bryant is extremely dedicated to education," said Mike Armour, executive director of the Appalachian Regional Commission Mississippi.
In remarks, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., stressed the need for private participation to help supply technology for every classroom in the district's counties after the effectiveness of the instruction and installations is confirmed by the university's research of the three-county pilot project.
Technology at a similarly high level has repeatedly been proven in other classrooms nationwide, so there's every reasonable expectation that effective results can be produced in the 24-classroom pilot project.
The level of technology sophistication in classrooms, while foreign to an older generation, is the technology of choice for arguably a strong majority of students, for whom interactive communication is a constant.
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Abilene Police: Motorists reported fighting, evading detention arrest made
ABILENE, Texas - From Abilene Police Department spokesman George Spindler:
At about 10:25 a.m. Friday, Officer Patrick Perez responded to a disturbance call in the 100 block of Sayles Boulevard. APD Dispatch had been notified by a concerned citizen that two motorists were fighting while driving but then pulled into a business parking lot. The concerned citizen had stated that one of the vehicles was all over the road during the disturbance. Officer Jeff Hogue was near the scene and was the first officer to contact the involved parties. While conducting his investigation a male subject ran from the scene and Officer Hogue began chasing the subject. Officer Brian Poynor was nearby and assisted in the foot chase. The male subject was commanded to stop. The subject ran around a vehicle and eventually stopped. The male subject was arrested for misdemeanor evading detention.
Just before midnight Saturday, Officers Charlie Compton and Christopher Milliorn responded to a drug-activity call. APD Dispatch had been notified by a concerned citizen whom believed drug activity was occurring outside a residence in the 1400 block of Harmony Drive. The officers arrived on scene and then made their way up to the affected area. As they were walking up to the incident location, they were spotted by a male subject who began running. The officers began chasing the man and Officer Milliorn commanded the subject to stop, but the subject kept running. The male subject tripped on the sidewalk while running and fell to the ground. The subject got back up and grabbed an object from his waistband and was observed throwing it. The subject then fell back to the ground and was placed into custody. The investigation revealed that the thrown object was a .38 caliber handgun. A records check revealed that the male subject was a convicted felon and that the handgun was reported stolen. The male subject stated he ran from the officers because he knew he should not have been in possession of the gun. The male subject was arrested for felony possession of a firearm by felon, felony theft of a firearm and for misdemeanor unlawful carrying of a weapon and evading detention. The investigation into the stolen firearm continues.
At about 8 p.m. Sunday, Officer Kurt Thomas responded to a shoplifter call at a business in the 1300 block of Barrow Street. APD Dispatch had been notified by a store manager that a female subject was in custody for alleged theft. Officer Thomas contacted the involved parties. His investigation revealed that a female subject had been observed hiding several packages of meat into her purse and then attempted to leave the store without paying for said items. Approximately $52 in stolen produce was recovered. The female subject was warned not to return to the store and was arrested for misdemeanor theft.
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Ferron City has announced that the Grand Marshals for the 100th annual Peach Days Celebration and Parade on Sept. 9-10, will be Nellie and LaMond Smith.
The Smiths moved to Ferron in 1968 and have been involved in civic and church activities since they first came. When they had been in Ferron only one month LaMond was made water master of the North Ditch later adding the responsibilities of the South Ditch, he still holds those positions today 38 years later.
LaMond served as a city council member for eight years acting as chairman of the Peach Days Committee for those eight years. Both LaMond and Nellie have been involved with the South Eastern Utah Livestock Show for the past 23 years and LaMond has been the Chairman of the Polled and Horn Hereford Association for the past 16 years.
Nellie's talents for artistry have made her an asset to the Peach Days Committee for more than 30 years. Nellie has hand painted the advertising signs for the horse arena each year. Businesses that have paid for advertising at Peach Days Celebration have been the recipient of Nellie's skills. When her children were young she was very active in 4-H, little league, and was a judge at most riding and roping events in the Ferron area. Both Nellie and LaMond were avid horse aficionados in years past. Nellie is currently employed by Pat's Sew and Stuff in Ferron, where she continues to share her talents with the customers.
The Smiths raised three children in the Ferron area, Linda, Randy and Becky. They are an asset to the town and are loved and appreciated by the citizens. Congratulations Nellie and LaMond on being chosen Grand Marshals.


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This is just ridiculous in 2012, BT is a major uk phone provider and it is surely a standard feature that any network that provides a caller id service should transmit numbers to other providers that provide caller id. I call my mobile from Online number and the caller id appears but call a BT landline and it comes up "unavailable" I call a sipgate number and a vonage number and the caller id is transmitted fine, but it seems any BT number just doesn't show the number that is calling. This really does need to be fixed ASAP so that the Skype online number is transmitted to any telco/phone that is able to display incoming caller id's. Presenting "unavailable" is just not acceptable and stops people from answering if they can't see the proper number. It should only come up as unavailable/witheld/anonymous if the person calling out has opted to do this.
I've been having to go into my account settings and reset my caller ID number.
There is NO REASON that their system should be losing my Caller ID settings. This is BS.
Ever since MicroSlop bought them out, this crap started happening.
Skype has caller ID settings?
How do I set up caller identification using my Online Number?
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I have a similar problem. My on line # does not show up on caller id. Some random # with a wierd area code shows up, it's never the same. How can I get my caller ID to properly work? Thanks!
I have tried setting up online number as CallerID. IN my experience, and by following the written instructions, Skype won't accept anything other than a mobile phone as CallerID.....located in Aust. Any suggestions?
Exactly the same here, as tom tanner,on Moto Droid and Xoom.
Caller ID to BT landlines used to work, but I also noticed this problem a while ago. I don't know exactly when it started -- does anyone know?
Skype support suggested I need to contact BT:
Skype Customer Service wrote:
We have checked our resources further and if the only caller ID problem is calling (BT) landlines from Skype, we want to suggest to call the provider of the recipients of your calls first to inquire if they are supporting Skype caller ID. This issue has something to do with the carriers/providers and Skype has no control over this.
If they confirm that there shouldn't have any problems and was working before, you can contact us again so we can investigate further.
As others have said, I'm amazed that Skype don't know whether their caller ID is supported by BT, the largest landline priovider in the UK!
This really is a unacceptable situation. Given the number of junk calls people receive these days ("no, I do not have a problem with my Windows computer" <slams phone down>), I know a growing number of people that just won't answer "International" or "Unknown" calls, which means they won't answer my Skype Out calls.
I'm paying for a service from Skype and expect to receive at least the same quality of service I received when I first signed up some time ago (when caller ID to BT worked)!
Please can someone from Skype make an official comment on this issue and provide an indication of when it will be resolved!


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Now that the dust has settled in the southern hemisphere, Planet Rugby gives out praise to the stars of the Rugby Championship round.
Now that the dust has settled in the southern hemisphere, Planet Rugby hands out praise to the stars of the Rugby Championship's fifth round.
It was another absorbing round from the south that saw the Springboks and All Blacks claim respective wins over the Wallabies and Pumas.
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Rugby Championship: Team of the Week
15 Zane Kirchner (South Africa) – Was his usual steady self as the Boks' last line of defence but also impressed on attack, gaining 82 metres in the process. Was rewarded for superb support play with a try and was seldom caught out of position when fielding kicks from Australia.
14 Ben Smith (New Zealand) – It is fair to say that Smith has sewn up the top try-scorer bragging rights in this year's Rugby Championship, with two scores against Argentina putting him on seven, four ahead of a chasing Juan Manuel Leguizamón. When Conrad Smith takes a break from Test rugby, don't be surprised to see Ben shift to thirteen as his versatility and qualities continue to shine through.
13 Conrad Smith (New Zealand) – Watch the All Black centre for five minutes and you get an idea of the work he puts in. On Saturday in La Plata he was at his best yet again alongside his former Hurricanes team-mate. Smith did not put a foot wrong in attack and defence.
12 Ma'a Nonu (New Zealand) – It's clear that Nonu in Super Rugby is not the same Nonu that pulls on the Black jersey. Still yet to find a franchise for 2014, the 31-year-old couldn't have done more to turn heads as he was excellent against the Pumas. His double-pump short pass for Ben Smith's first try was superb.
11 Julian Savea (New Zealand) – Fifteen tries now for the 23-year-old winger as he finished well down the left touchline for what was an opportunistic score. Savea made an impressive 138 metres on Saturday – bumping off a few forwards to that feat – and is set to be key for New Zealand at Ellis Park this weekend.
10 Morne Steyn (South Africa) – Impressed with the way he put his outside backs into space, especially during the first-half in Cape Town. Kicked 13 points but also caught the eye with ball in hand – gaining 50 metres – and was South Africa's best defender with 11 tackles.
9 Fourie du Preez (South Africa) – Proved once again why he is so highly rated by Heyneke Meyer with another polished display against the Wallabies. Showed great vision in setting up Adriaan Strauss and Willie le Roux for tries and kept the Bok pack on the front-foot with intelligent box kicks.
8 Duane Vermeulen (South Africa) – Despite being yellow-carded for a cynical offence, Vermeulen, once again, put his body on the line for the Bok cause. Was a willing ball carrier with two defenders beaten and also did his bit on defence with six tackles.
7 Sam Cane (New Zealand) – Richie McCaw was water boy for the All Blacks in La Plata and he would've struggled not to have been impressed by his understudy's performance. Cane beat five defenders and was worthy of his second-half try, which he took well on the left wing. A mention for Pumas flanker Pablo Matera.
6 Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe (Argentina) – While the props will take credit for a strong scrum, Lobbe needs praise for his work around the field. The Pumas' most used line-out option didn't stop against the All Blacks and yet again showed how critical he is, and will be, when they get their first win. Saturday?
5 Patricio Albacete (Argentina) – Noticeable is one word to describe Toulouse second-row Albacete's return to the international fold against New Zealand on Saturday. The 31-year-old veteran got through a tonne of work in defence but also offered carries when required, showing again his standing in the world game.
4 Eben Etzebeth (South Africa) – Another fine display from the youngster who is growing into the role as the Boks' enforcer. Etzebeth was at the coalface of South Africa's forward effort, especially the way he cleaned out the rucks. Was the Boks' go-to man in the line-outs with eight takes and stood out on defence with ten hits.
3 Juan Figallo (Argentina) – Without doubt he has been the standout tighthead in the Rugby Championship this season. Tony Woodcock was the next to feel his full force as the Montpellier prop gave him an hour of pain. Still just 25, one wonders how James Slipper and Benn Robinson will cope with his brute force.
2 Adriaan Strauss (South Africa) – Only played for 50 minutes but put in another polished display. Got the game's opening try after a typically barnstorming run but also impressed in his core duties, especially his throw-ins at the line-outs which gave the Boks the opportunity to launch several attacks.
1 Marcos Ayerza (Argentina) – There was a spell against New Zealand that Figallo won a scrum penalty against Woodcock followed by Ayerza achieving the same against Owen Franks in a future set-piece. Franks did not return for the second-half after suffering a groin injury but take nothing away from Ayerza, the Puma won that personal duel.


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Skip to comments.Contemporary Scholarship and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
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"Man," writes Loren Eisley, "is the Cosmic Orphan." He is the only creature in the universe who asks, Why? Other animals have instincts to guide them, but man has learned to ask questions. "Who am I?" he asks. "Why am I here? Where am I going?"
Ever since the Enlightenment, when modern man threw off the shackles of religion, he has tried to answer these questions without reference to God. But the answers that came back were not exhilarating, but dark and terrible. "You are an accidental by-product of nature, the result of matter plus time plus chance. There is no reason for your existence. All you face is death. Your life is but a spark in the infinite darkness, a spark that appears, flickers, and dies forever."
Modern man thought that in divesting himself of God, he had freed himself from all that stifled and repressed him. Instead, he discovered that in killing God, he had also killed himself.
Against this background of the modern predicament, the traditional Christian hope of the resurrection takes on an even greater brightness and significance. It tells man that he is no orphan after all, but the personal image of the Creator God of the universe; nor is his life doomed in death, for through the eschatological resurrection he may live in the presence of God forever.
This is a wonderful hope. But, of course, hope that is not founded in fact is not hope, but mere illusion. Why should the Christian hope of eschatological resurrection appear to modern man as anything more than mere wishful thinking? The answer lies in the Christian conviction that a man has been proleptically raised by God from the dead as the forerunner and exemplar of our own eschatological resurrection. That man was Jesus of Nazareth, and his historical resurrection from the dead constitutes the factual foundation upon which the Christian hope is based.
Of course, during the last century liberal theology had no use for the historical resurrection of Jesus. Since liberal theologians retained the presupposition against the possibility of miracles which they had inherited from the Deists, a historical resurrection was a priori simply out of the question for them. The mythological explanation of D. F. Strauss enabled them to explain the resurrection accounts of the New Testament as legendary fictions. The belief in the historical resurrection was a hangover from antiquity which it was high time for modern man to be rid of. Thus, in liberal theology's greatest study of the historicity of the resurrection, Kirsopp Lake's The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (1907), Lake carefully plots the legendary development of the resurrection narratives from the root historical event of the women's visit to the wrong tomb. He concludes that it is not the end anyway: what is vital for Christian theology is the belief in the immortality of the soul, the belief that our departed friends and relatives are still alive and that in time we shall be re-united with them. Thus, the NT has been replaced by the Phaedo.
Liberal theology could not survive World War I, but its demise brought no renewed interest in the historicity of Jesus' resurrection, for the two schools that succeeded it were united in their devaluation of the historical with regard to Jesus. Thus, dialectical theology, propounded by Karl Barth, championed the doctrine of the resurrection, but would have nothing to do with the resurrection as an event of history. In his commentary on the book of Romans (1919), the early Barth declared, "The resurrection touches history as a tangent touches a circle-that is, without really touching it." Existential theology, exemplified by Rudolf Bultmann, was even more antithetical to the historicity of Jesus' resurrection. Though Bultmann acknowledged that the earliest disciples believed in the literal resurrection of Jesus and that Paul in I Corinthians 15 even attempts to prove the resurrection, he nevertheless pronounces such a procedure as "fatal." It reduces Christ's resurrection to a nature miracle akin to the resurrection of a corpse. And modern man cannot be reasonably asked to believe in nature miracles before becoming a Christian. Therefore, the miraculous elements of the gospel must be demythologized to reveal the true Christian message: the call to authentic existence in the face of death, symbolized by the cross. The resurrection is merely a symbolic re-statement of the message of the cross and essentially adds nothing to it. To appeal to the resurrection as historical evidence, as did Paul, is doubly wrong-headed, for it is of the very nature of existential faith that it is a leap without evidence. Thus, to argue historically for the resurrection is contrary to faith. Clearly then, the antipathy of liberal theology to the historicity of Jesus' resurrection remained unrelieved by either dialectical or existential theology.
But a remarkable change has come about during the second half of the 20th century. The first glimmerings of change began to appear in 1953. In that year Ernst Käsemann, a pupil of Bultmann, argued at a Colloquy at the University of Marburg that Bultmann's historical skepticism toward Jesus was unwarranted and counterproductive and suggested re-opening the question of where the historical about Jesus was to be found. A new quest of the historical Jesus had begun. Three years later in 1956 the Marburg theologian Hans Grass subjected the resurrection itself to historical inquiry and concluded that the resurrection appearances cannot be dismissed as mere subjective visions on the part of the disciples, but were objective visionary events.
Meanwhile the church historian Hans Freiherr von Campenhausen in an equally epochal essay defended the historical credibility of Jesus' empty tomb. During the ensuing years a stream of works on the historicity of Jesus' resurrection flowed forth from German, French and English presses. By 1968 the old skepticism was a spent force and began dramatically to recede. So complete has been the turn-about during the second half of this century concerning the resurrection of Jesus that it is no exaggeration to speak of a reversal of scholarship on this issue, such that those who deny the historicity of Jesus' resurrection now seem to be the ones on the defensive. Perhaps one of the most significant theological developments in this connection is the theological system of Wolfhart Pannenberg, who bases his entire Christology on the historical evidence for Jesus' ministry and especially the resurrection. This is a development undreamed of in German theology prior to 1950. Equally startling is the declaration of one of the world's leading Jewish theologians Pinchas Lapid, that he is convinced on the basis of the evidence that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead. Lapide twits New Testament critics like Bultmann and Marxsen for their unjustified skepticism and concludes that he believes on the basis of the evidence that the God of Israel raised Jesus from the dead.
What are the facts that underlie this remarkable reversal of opinion concerning the credibility of the New Testament accounts of the resurrection of Jesus? It seems to me that they can be conveniently grouped under three heads: the resurrection appearances, the empty tomb, and the origin of the Christian faith. Let's look briefly at each.
First, the resurrection appearances. Undoubtedly the major impetus for the reassessment of the appearance tradition was the demonstration by Joachim Jeremias that in 1 Corinthians 15: 3-5 Paul is quoting an old Christian formula which he received and in turn passed on to his converts According to Galatians 1:18 Paul was in Jerusalem three years after his conversion on a fact-finding mission, during which he conferred with Peter and James over a two week period, and he probably received the formula at this time, if not before. Since Paul was converted in AD 33, this means that the list of witnesses goes back to within the first five years after Jesus' death. Thus, it is idle to dismiss these appearances as legendary. We can try to explain them away as hallucinations if we wish, but we cannot deny they occurred. Paul's information makes it certain that on separate occasions various individuals and groups saw Jesus alive from the dead. According to Norman Perrin, the late NT critic of the University of Chicago: "The more we study the tradition with regard to the appearances, the firmer the rock begins to appear upon which they are based." This conclusion is virtually indisputable.
At the same time that biblical scholarship has come to a new appreciation of the historical credibility of Paul's information, however, it must be admitted that skepticism concerning the appearance traditions in the gospels persists. This lingering skepticism seems to me to be entirely unjustified. It is based on a presuppositional antipathy toward the physicalism of the gospel appearance stories. But the traditions underlying those appearance stories may well be as reliable as Paul's. For in order for these stories to be in the main legendary, a very considerable length of time must be available for the evolution and development of the traditions until the historical elements have been supplanted by unhistorical. This factor is typically neglected in New Testament scholarship, as A. N. Sherwin-White points out in Roman Law and Roman Society tn the New Testament. Professor Sherwin-White is not a theologian; he is an eminent historian of Roman and Greek times, roughly contemporaneous with the NT. According to Professor Sherwin-White, the sources for Roman history are usually biased and removed at least one or two generations or even centuries from the events they record. Yet, he says, historians reconstruct with confidence what really happened. He chastises NT critics for not realizing what invaluable sources they have in the gospels. The writings of Herodotus furnish a test case for the rate of legendary accumulation, and the tests show that even two generations is too short a time span to allow legendary tendencies to wipe out the hard core of historical facts. When Professor Sherwin-White turns to the gospels, he states for these to be legends, the rate of legendary accumulation would have to be 'unbelievable'; more generations are needed. All NT scholars agree that the gospels were written down and circulated within the first generation, during the lifetime of the eyewitnesses. Indeed, a significant new movement of biblical scholarship argues persuasively that some of the gospels were written by the AD 50's. This places them as early as Paul's letter to the Corinthians and, given their equal reliance upon prior tradition, they ought therefore to be accorded the same weight of historical credibility accorded Paul. It is instructive to note in this connection that no apocryphal gospel appeared during the first century. These did not arise until after the generation of eyewitnesses had died off. These are better candidates for the office of 'legendary fiction' than the canonical gospels. There simply was insufficient time for significant accrual of legend by the time of the gospels' composition. Thus, I find current criticism's skepticism with regard to the appearance traditions in the gospels to be unwarranted. The new appreciation of the historical value of Paul's information needs to be accompanied by a reassessment of the gospel traditions as well.
Second, the empty tomb. Once regarded as an offense to modern intelligence and an embarrassment to Christian theology, the empty tomb of Jesus has come to assume its place among the generally accepted facts concerning the historical Jesus. Allow me to review briefly some of the evidence undergirding this connection.
(1) The historical reliability of the burial story supports the empty tomb. If the burial account is accurate, then the site of Jesus' grave was known to Jew and Christian alike. In that case, it is a very short inference to historicity of the empty tomb. For if Jesus had not risen and the burial site were known:
(a) the disciples could never have believed in the resurrection of Jesus. For a first century Jew the idea that a man might be raised from the dead while his body remained in the tomb was simply a contradiction in terms. In the words of E. E. Ellis, "It is very unlikely that the earliest Palestinian Christians could conceive of any distinction between resurrection and physical, 'grave emptying' resurrection. To them an anastasis without an empty grave would have been about as meaningful as a square circle."
(b) Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.
(c) The Jewish authorities would have exposed the whole affair. The quickest and surest answer to the proclamation of the resurrection of Jesus would have been simply to point to his grave on the hillside.
For these three reasons, the accuracy of the burial story supports the historicity of the empty tomb. Unfortunately for those who wish to deny the empty tomb, however, the burial story is one of the most historically certain traditions we have concerning Jesus. Several factors undergird this judgment. To mention only a few.
(i) The burial is mentioned in the third line of the old Christian formula quoted by Paul in 1 Cor. 15.4.
(ii) It is part of the ancient pre-Markan passion story which Mark used as a source for his gospel.
(iii) The story itself lacks any traces of legendary development.
(iv) The story comports with archeological evidence concerning the types and location of tombs extant in Jesus' day.
(v) No other competing burial traditions exist.
For these and other reasons, most scholars are united in the judgment that the burial story is fundamentally historical. But if that is the case, then, as I have explained, the inference that the tomb was found empty is not very far at hand.
(2) Paul's testimony supports the fact of the empty tomb. Here two aspects of Paul's evidence may be mentioned.
(a) In the formula cited by Paul the expression "he was raised" following the phrase "he was buried" implies the empty tomb. A first century Jew could not think otherwise. As E. L. Bode observes, the notion of the occurrence of a spiritual resurrection while the body remained in the tomb is a peculiarity of modern theology. For the Jews it was the remains of the man in the tomb which were raised; hence, they carefully preserved the bones of the dead in ossuaries until the eschatological resurrection. There can be no doubt that both Paul and the early Christian formula he cites pre-suppose the existence of the empty tomb.
(b) The phrase "on the third day" probably points to the discovery of the empty tomb. Very briefly summarized, the point is that since no one actually witnessed the resurrection of Jesus, how did Christians come to date it "on the third day?" The most probable answer is that they did so because this was the day of the discovery of the empty tomb by Jesus' women followers. Hence, the resurrection itself came to be dated on that day. Thus, in the old Christian formula quoted by Paul we have extremely early evidence for the existence of Jesus' empty tomb.
(3) The empty tomb story is part of the pre-Markan passion story and is therefore very old. The empty tomb story was probably the end of Mark's passion source. As Mark is the earliest of our gospels, this source is therefore itself quite old. In fact the commentator R. Pesch contends that it is an incredibly early source. He produces two lines of evidence for this conclusion:
(a) Paul's account of the Last Supper in 1 Cor. 11:23-5 presupposes the Markan account. Since Paul's own traditions are themselves very old, the Markan source must be yet older.
(b) The pre-Markan passion story never refers to the high priest by name. It is as when I say "The President is hosting a dinner at the White House" and everyone knows whom I am speaking of because it is the man currently in office. Similarly the pre-Markan passion story refers to the "high priest" as if he were still in power. Since Caiaphas held office from AD 18-37, this means at the latest the pre-Markan source must come from within seven years after Jesus' death. This source thus goes back to within the first few years of the Jerusalem fellowship and is therefore an ancient and reliable source of historical information.
(4) The story is simple and lacks legendary development. The empty tomb story is uncolored by the theological and apologetical motifs that would be characteristic of a later legendary account. Perhaps the most forceful way to appreciate this point is to compare it with the accounts of the empty tomb found in apocryphal gospels of the second century. For example, in the gospel of Peter a voice rings out from heaven during the night, the stone rolls back of itself from the door of the tomb, and two men descend from Heaven and enter the tomb. Then three men are seen coming out of the tomb, the two supporting the third. The heads of the two men stretch up to the clouds, but the head of the third man overpasses the clouds. Then a cross comes out of the tomb, and a voice asks, "Hast thou preached to them that sleep?" And the cross answers, "Yea". In the Ascension of Isaiah, Jesus comes out of the tomb sitting on the shoulders of the angels Michael and Gabriel. These are how real legends look: unlike the gospel accounts, they are colored by theological motifs.
(5) The tomb was probably discovered empty by women. To understand this point one has to recall two facts about the role of women in Jewish society.
(a) Woman occupied a low rung on the Jewish social ladder. This is evident in such rabbinic expressions as "Sooner let the words of the law be burnt than delivered to women" and "Happy is he whose children are male, but woe to him whose children are female."
(b) The testimony of women was regarded as so worthless that they were not even permitted to serve as legal witnesses in a court of law. In light of these facts, how remarkable must it seem that it is women who are the discoverers of Jesus' empty tomb. Any later legend would certainly have made the male disciples to discover the empty tomb. The fact that women, whose testimony was worthless, rather than men, are the chief witnesses to the empty tomb is most plausibly accounted for by the fact that, like it or not, they were the discoverers of the empty tomb and the gospels accurately record this.
(6) The earliest Jewish polemic presupposes the empty tomb. In Matthew 28, we find the Christian attempt to refute the earliest Jewish polemic against the resurrection. That polemic asserted that the disciples stole away the body. The Christians responded to this by reciting the story of the guard at the tomb, and the polemic in turn charged that the guard fell asleep. Now the noteworthy feature of this whole dispute is not the historicity of the guards but rather the presupposition of both parties that the body was missing. The earliest Jewish response to the proclamation of the resurrection was an attempt to explain away the empty tomb. Thus, the evidence of the adversaries of the disciples provides evidence in support of the empty tomb.
One could go on, but perhaps enough has been said to indicate why the judgment of scholarship has reversed itself on the historicity of the empty tomb. According to Jakob Kremer, "By far most exegetes hold firmly to the reliability of the biblical statements concerning the empty tomb" and he furnishes a list, to which his own name may be added, of twenty-eight prominent scholars in support. I can think of at least sixteen more names that he failed to mention. Thus, it is today widely recognized that the empty tomb of Jesus is a simple historical fact. As D. H. van Daalen has pointed out, "It is extremely difficult to object to the empty tomb on historical grounds; those who deny it do so on the basis of theological or philosophical assumptions." But assumptions may simply have to be changed in light of historical facts.
Finally, we may turn to that third body of evidence supporting the resurrection: the very origin of the Christian Way. Even the most skeptical scholars admit that the earliest disciples at least believed that Jesus had been raised from the dead. Indeed, they pinned nearly everything on it. Without belief in the resurrection of Jesus, Christianity could never have come into being. The crucifixion would have remained the final tragedy in the hapless life of Jesus. The origin of Christianity hinges on the belief of these earliest disciples that Jesus had risen from the dead. The question now inevitably arises: how does one explain the origin of that belief? As R. H. Fuller urges, even the most skeptical critic must posit some mysterious X to get the movement going. But the question is, what was that X?
If one denies that Jesus really did rise from the dead, then he must explain the disciples' belief that he did rise either in terms of Jewish influences or in terms of Christian influences. Now clearly, it can't be the result of Christian influences, for at that time there wasn't any Christianity yet! Since belief in Jesus' resurrection was the foundation for the origin of the Christian faith, it can't be a belief formed as a result of that faith.
But neither can the belief in the resurrection be explained as a result of Jewish influences. To see this we need to back up a moment. In the Old Testament, the Jewish belief in the resurrection of the dead on the day of judgment is mentioned in three places (Ezekiel 37; Isaiah 26, 19, Daniel 12.2). During the time between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the belief in resurrection flowered and is often mentioned in the Jewish literature of that period. In Jesus' day the Jewish party of the Pharisees held to belief in resurrection, and Jesus sided with them on this score in opposition to the party of the Sadducees. So the idea of resurrection was itself nothing new.
But the Jewish conception of resurrection differed in two important, fundamental respects from Jesus' resurrection. In Jewish thought the resurrection always (1) occurred after the end of the world, not within history, and (2) concerned all the people, not just an isolated individual. In contradistinction to this, Jesus' resurrection was both within history and of one individual person.
With regard to the first point, the Jewish belief was always that at the end of history, God would raise the righteous dead and receive them into His Kingdom. There are, to be sure, examples in the Old Testament of resuscitations of the dead; but these persons would die again. The resurrection to eternal life and glory occurred after the end of the world. We find this Jewish outlook in the gospels themselves. Thus, when Jesus assures Martha that her brother Lazarus will rise again, she responds, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day" (John 11.24). She has no idea that Jesus is about to bring him back to life. Similarly, when Jesus tells his disciples he will rise from the dead, they think he means at the end of the world (Mark 9.9-13). The idea that a true resurrection could occur prior to God's bringing the Kingdom of Heaven at the end of the world was utterly foreign to them. The greatly renowned German New Testament scholar Joachim Jeremias writes,
Ancient Judaism did not know of an anticipated resurrection as an event of history. Nowhere does one find in the literature anything comparable to the resurrection of Jesus. Certainly resurrections of the dead were known, but these always concerned resuscitations, the return to the earthly life. In no place in the late Judaic literature does it concern a resurrection to doxa (glory) as an event of history.
The disciples, therefore, confronted with Jesus' crucifixion and death, would only have looked forward to the resurrection at the final day and would probably have carefully kept their master's tomb as a shrine, where his bones could reside until the resurrection. They would not have come up with the idea that he was already raised.
As for the second point, the Jewish idea of resurrection was always of a general resurrection of the dead, not an isolated individual. It was the people, or mankind as a whole, that God raised up in the resurrection. But in Jesus' resurrection, God raised just a single man. Moreover, there was no concept of the people's resurrection in some way hinging on the Messiah's resurrection. That was just totally unknown. Yet that is precisely what is said to have occurred in Jesus' case. Ulrich Wilckens, another prominent German New Testament critic, explains:
For nowhere do the Jewish texts speak of the resurrection of an individual which already occurs before the resurrection of the righteous in the end time and is differentiated and separate from it; nowhere does the participation of the righteous in the salvation at the end time depend on their belonging to the Messiah, who was raised in advance as the 'First of those raised by God.' (1 Corinthians 15:20)
It is therefore evident that the disciples would not as a result of Jewish influences or background have come up with the idea that Jesus alone had been raised from the dead. They would wait with longing for that day when He and all the righteous of Israel would be raised by God to glory.
The disciples' belief in Jesus' resurrection, therefore, cannot be explained as the result of either Christian or Jewish influences. Left to themselves, the disciples would never have come up with such an idea as Jesus' resurrection. And remember: they were fishermen and tax collectors, not theologians. The mysterious X is still missing. According to C. F. D. Moule of Cambridge University, here is a belief nothing in terms of previous historical influences can account for. He points out that we have a situation in which a large number of people held firmly to this belief, which cannot be explained in terms of the Old Testament or the Pharisees, and these people held onto this belief until the Jews finally threw them out of the synagogue. According to Professor Moule, the origin of this belief must have been the fact that Jesus really did rise from the dead:
If the coming into existence of the Nazarenes, a phenomenon undeniably attested by the New Testament, rips a great hole in history, a hole of the size and shape of the Resurrection, what does the secular historian propose to stop it up with?. . . the birth and rapid rise of the Christian Church. . . remain an unsolved enigma for any historian who refuses to take seriously the only explanation offered by the church itself.
The resurrection of Jesus is therefore the best explanation for the origin of the Christian faith. Taken together, these three great historical facts--the resurrection appearances, the empty tomb, the origin of the Christian faith--seem to point to the resurrection of Jesus as the most plausible explanation.
But of course there have been other explanations proffered to account for the resurrection appearances, the empty tomb, and the origin of the Christian faith. In the judgment of modern scholarship, however, these have failed to provide a plausible account of the facts of the case. This can be seen by a rapid review of the principal explanations that have been offered.
A. The disciples stole Jesus' corpse and lied about the resurrection appearances. This explanation characterized the earliest Jewish anti-Christian polemic and was revived in the form of the conspiracy theory of eighteenth century Deism. The theory has been universally rejected by critical scholars and survives only in the popular press. To name only two considerations decisive against it: (i) it is morally impossible to indict the disciples of Jesus with such a crime. Whatever their imperfections, they were certainly good, earnest men and women, not impostors. No one who reads the New Testament unprejudicially can doubt the evident sincerity of these early believers. (ii) It is psychologically impossible to attribute to the disciples the cunning and dering- do requisite for such a ruse. At the time of the crucifixion, the disciples were confused, disorganized, fearful, doubting, and burdened with mourning-not mentally motivated or equipped to engineer such a wild hoax. Hence, to explain the empty tomb and resurrection appearances by a conspiracy theory seems out of the question.
B. Jesus did not die on the cross, but was taken down and placed alive in the tomb, where he revived and escaped to convince the disciples he had risen from the dead. This apparent death theory was championed by the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century German rationalists, and was even embraced by the father of modern theology, F. D. E. Schleiermacher. Today, however, the theory has been entirely given up: (i) it would be virtually impossible medically for Jesus to have survived the rigors of his torture and crucifixion, much less not to have died of exposure in the tomb. (ii) The theory is religiously inadequate, since a half-dead Jesus desperately in need of medical attention would not have elicited in the disciples worship of him as the exalted Risen Lord and Conqueror of Death. Moreover, since Jesus on this hypothesis knew he had not actually triumphed over death, the theory reduces him to the life of a charlatan who tricked the disciples into believing he had risen, which is absurd. These reasons alone make the apparent death theory untenable.
C. The disciples projected hallucinations of Jesus after his death, from which they mistakenly inferred his resurrection. The hallucination theory became popular during the nineteenth century and carried over into the first half of the twentieth century as well. Again, however, there are good grounds for rejecting this hypothesis: (i) it is psychologically implausible to posit such a chain of hallucinations. Hallucinations are usually associated with mental illness or drugs; but in the disciples' case the prior psycho-biological preparation appears to be wanting. The disciples had no anticipation of seeing Jesus alive again; all they could do was wait to be reunited with him in the Kingdom of God. There were no grounds leading them to hallucinate him alive from the dead. Moreover, the frequency and variety of circumstances belie the hallucination theory: Jesus was seen not once, but many times; not by one person, but by several; not only by individuals, but also by groups; not at one locale and circumstance but at many; not by believers only, but by skeptics and unbelievers as well. The hallucination theory cannot be plausibly stretched to accommodate such diversity. (ii) Hallucinations would not in any case have led to belief in Jesus' resurrection. As projections of one's own mind, hallucinations cannot contain anything not already in the mind. But we have seen that Jesus' resurrection differed from the Jewish conception in two fundamental ways. Given their Jewish frame of thought, the disciples, were they to hallucinate, would have projected visions of Jesus glorified in Abraham's bosom, where Israel's righteous dead abode until the eschatological resurrection. Thus, hallucinations would not have elicited belief in Jesus' resurrection, an idea that ran solidly against the Jewish mode of thought. (iii) Nor can hallucinations account for the full scope of the evidence. They are offered as an explanation of the resurrection appearances, but leave the empty tomb unexplained, and therefore fail as a complete and satisfying answer. Hence, it seems that the hallucination hypothesis is not more successful than its defunct forebears in providing a plausible counter-explanation of the data surrounding Christ's resurrection.
Thus, none of the previous counter-explanations can account for the evidence as plausibly as the resurrection itself. One might ask, "Well, then, how do skeptical scholars explain the facts of the resurrection appearances, the empty tomb, and the origin of the Christian faith?" The fact of the matter is, they don't. Modern scholarship recognizes no plausible explanatory alternative to the resurrection of Jesus. Those who refuse to accept the resurrection as a fact of history are simply self-confessedly left without an explanation.
These three great facts--the resurrection appearances, the empty tomb, and the origin of the Christian faith--all point unavoidably to one conclusion: The resurrection of Jesus. Today the rational man can hardly be blamed if he believes that on that first Easter morning a divine miracle occurred.
And may the Blood of Jesus shield you from all the tinfoil hat comments that tend to come when folk start breaking out in hives over anything religious or beyond their experience.
Done lock *grin*.Have a Good day all!
Let us pray that what remains finds its demise with the Trade Towers..
The gospel demands a change and men love their sin above everything else ,even their own lives..
Do you want to be on the Christian bump list ..I could sure use another mom *grin*
Well.... if Ronald Reagan said that, he was quoting C.S. Lewis. That quote originated with him. I think it can be found in Mere Christianity.
And Urdu, Pushtan, Hindi, etc!
A personal journey recently done down this same path, by a skeptic who became a convert.
Did Mohammed Atta?
The account was reviewed by a Medical Examiner who traced through the trauma inflicted on the person of Jesus. From the beard pulling, beating, being struck with a Roman "flagellum" 39 times, being marched across Jerusalem and back three seperate times, and going without water or food for 18 hours prior to being even nailed on the cross, the conclusion reached is that Christ was in critical condition before even being nailed on the cross.
The crucifiction account itself has no historical flaws. The thieves needed to have their legs broken (to hasten death by suffocation) because they were not bleeding from a massive back trauma and in Hypovolemic Shock. The "Blood and Water" reference in John's account is consistent with Pulmonary Edema, brought on by Hypovolemic Shock and the Carbonic Acid buidup from being unable to properly exhale.
Finally, understand that the Romans that actually did the execution were well schooled in what dead people looked like, and that the usual penalty for a botched execution was replacing the intended victim with your incompetent self. The Romans would have made sure that Jesus was dead; hence the coup de gras administered with a spear driven into the heart.
He was dead alright. See the Case for Christ by Lee Strobel for additional (gory) details...
The work of Luke as a historian is actually one of the best in antiquity. Since the Bible has been proven correct by any corraborating archeology, it is an unstable peg to hang your hat on; especially consideration the extra biblical corraboration.
You're mighty confused. There weren't 500 other people who were resurrected with him. There was an appearance of the resurrected Christ to about 500 people.
The Gospels are the main, but not only, historical evidence that Jesus lived. The historical authority of the Gospels has been verified by a slew of scholars who have examined it by applying the same tests that are used to determine the accuracy of any other historical account.
Peter was crusified upside down, Paul was crusified, Stephen was bitten half to death then stoned, while the unbelieving Paul held the coats of the men that killed Stephen. James was sawed in half. I would never go through that for a lie, no one would, what would be the point? If these men really believed they were supporting a lie, then they would be well aware that this life is all they get of life and would cling to it. The very manner of their deaths are a testimony to their unshakeable belief in the ressurection of Jesus.
Did Mohammed Atta?
You're missing the point. Mohammed Atta was lied to. If the Apostles died for a lie, it was they themselves who were doing the lying.
That's beyond my limited capabilities. Do not computers have the capability to translate?
thanks for your response.
That is actually one of the easiest contentions to prove. There is secular Roman documents that mention Jesus and I would be happy to provide a link if you desire.
There most certainly is. Frankly, I doubt you even read the article. If you had, you would have attacked the historical evidence instead of claiming there isn't any.
The evidence of Jesus' life is the fact that Chistianity got started. In Jerusalem at the time the movement started, there were many people who had either seen or not seen the events happen. The apostles would have been laughed at had there been no such person as Jesus. As noted in the article above, the earliest Jewish polemics presuppose Jesus' tomb was empty by saying that the disciples removed the body. That they say there was a body in the first place means that the earliest enemies of Christianity, who had seen the events themselves and cannot be accused of making stuff up to support the very people they were killing, say Jesus existed. Should I believe them, or you?
The article also explains why, not only did Jesus have to have lived, he had to be resurrected. I'll go further and add that He had to fit the requirements for the Messiah, several of which he could not have faked. They include his own execution.
Yet you made an argument as if the points in it had never been made. If you read it, you just made your standard reply.
The author attempts to build his case strictly on biblical sources
And there's nothing wrong with that.
none of the writers of the New Testament were even alive at the time that Jesus allegedly lived.
Any proof of that?
Certainly someone who had done as much as Jesus did would have earned at least a footnote in non-biblical sources besides the passing reference made by Josephus.
That's an unwarrented asumption.
Pagan resurrecting god/men were common mythical characters dating to Sumerian times. There is no "historical fact" known about Jesus Christ that was not a part of some previous pagan myth. All the miracles, parables, and important events of the gospels are from stories told of previous god/men.
The Christian sect of Judaism was the creation of educated Alexandrian Jews who were steeped in the culture of the Greeks. They melded a popular Pagan Resurrecting god/man myth with the Jewish Messiah concept. The Jews for the most part weren't interested because they wanted their Messiah to be a military conqueror not a spiritual savior. Instead, Christianity found its most enthusiastic followers from among the uneducated slaves and disenfranchised commoners of Rome. The rise of literalist scriptural Christianity was attended in large measure by roving mobs of ignorant fanatical zealots whose primary task was the practically complete destruction of Pagan civilization. They also destroyed Gnostic Christianity in the process. You may have recently noticed that this is the characteristic attitude of certain present day religious fanatics toward Western Civilization.
Lazarismus, as it is called today, is a disease resulting from the consumption of garbanzo beans as the principle ingredient in one's diet. The effect after some weeks of this diet is to render the victim almost completely paralyzed. This was not historically uncommon in the middle east and recently occurred to large numbers of people in P.O.W. camps in that part of the world during WWII. Lazarus' medical chart, had he been visited by a competent modern day physician, would probably indicate a pathological preference for humus.
At least four, and possibly up to nineteen (depending on whether or not they were all in on the entire plan) chose to die for a lie on 9/11. So much for that argument.
The reference by Josephus was a later addition to his writings by a Christian forger. This has been proven by comparing Josephus' writing style with the obviously anachronistic grammar used by the forger in the early copies where the forgery occurred. The earliest copies do not include the reference to Jesus. In addition the reference is out of place with respect to the narrative and was obviously inserted without much thought.
"Objective" meaning anti-Christian. Instead of simply refering me somewhere else, why don't you make the arguments yourself?
Relying exclusively on the self referential scriptures of any religion for the validation of its historical authenticity is commonplace among the believers.
Christianity obviously got started somewhere. You assert(with no proof whatsoever) that it was invented in Egypt. I could take that on faith, but I won't. The early Christians were often killed for their beliefs. Would you suffer and die for a belief you knew to be false because you invented it? If it were invented in Egypt, they'd have a problem: everyone in Jerusalem would know it was total bunk. Not only that, but some people, such as traveling merchants, would have been there at the time and been in Egypt when Christianity was invented. If it started too late for witnesses to confirm or deny, that in itself would be a problem, because if it were true there would already be Christians. The lack of Christians would ruin the whole thing.
If something like the story in the Gospel didn't happen, there'd be no Christians and thus no Scriptures.
The rise of literalist scriptural Christianity was attended in large measure by roving mobs of ignorant fanatical zealots whose primary task was the practically complete destruction of Pagan civilization.
You're projecting your image of modern fundamentalists, with coloration provided by Islamists, on to ancient Christians. It doesn't fit. Classical civilization was destroyed by geopolitical events, and such of it as did survive was saved by Christians. In the East it didn't fall at all, it simply evolved into a new form(which was destroyed by Turks).
Your argument's been raised already, and answered. You might die for a lie that you believe, but if you are yourself the liar, almost certainly you won't. There might be situations it could happen ("The judge said, 'Son, what is you alibi? If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die.' I said not a word, though it meant my life, for I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife." Long Black Veil, Dave Matthews Band) but not with so many people.
So much for that.
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