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William Lane Craig: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Points To the Existence of God: My Comments.

*According to William Lane Craig, the life, death and especially the resurrection of Jesus is strong evidence for the existence of God.

*Firstly not all scholars of ancient history and archaeology even agree that Jesus even existed. For example, YouTube the following: David Fitzgerald, Richard C. Carrier, and Robert M. Price. Even if Jesus did exist, he more likely as not was just an ordinary mortal with delusions of grandeur. Even if Jesus was born of a virgin and walked on water and healed the sick, etc. that in and of itself says nothing about the existence of God. For example, Buddha, Horus, Krishna and Zoroaster were also all born of a virgin!

*Further, the concept of a resurrection is not by any means restricted to Jesus. Resurrection, for example, was a common theme in Ancient Greek mythology. Hercules got resurrected by his daddy too! And in Ancient Egyptian mythology, Osiris was resurrected by Isis. Further, if you read the Gospels side-by-side instead on consecutively, you'll note that the various accounts of the resurrection of Jesus are inconsistent and contradictory with numerous discrepancies with respect to who (that differs) saw what; between what actually happened (that differs too) and when; and between when (timelines also differ) whatever happened actually happened. The personnel, events and timelines are not consistent.

*William Lane Craig was not personally present at the alleged resurrection of Jesus and so like everyone else has to rely on contradictory eye-witness accounts of the nature of someone who told someone who told someone, etc. from 2000 years ago, events which weren't actually written up until many decades after the fact. The upshot of that is that if one event in the Bible is contradicted by another event in the Bible, then anything and everything in the Bible is open to question and doubt.

A Few Additional Thoughts

*William Lane Craig cites the post-dead and buried sightings of Jesus as proof of the resurrection of Jesus and therefore as proof of the existence of God. However, there have been many sightings of Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa and other notable "dead" celebrities post their alleged demise so does that mean that Elvis and Jimmy, etc. were also resurrected from the dead and if so does this mean that they too are divine and sons of God?

johnprytz 7 Feb 26
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Craig's argument can equally be applied to the resurrection of Captain America after 70 years frozen in ice pointing to the undeniable existence of Iron Man.

@johnprytz You raise an interesting point and one that has not gone unnoticed in the past.
Christopher Marlowe the Elizabethan poet and play write, drew attention (at a great cost) to himself by pointing out that twice in the bible Lazarus whose sisters were Martha and the Magdalene is referred to as he who Jesus loved, the same title the author of the the Gospel of John uses for himself within the text.
Some take this to mean the apostle John was Lazarus and that either
A) he was never raised from the dead it was a con trick, or
B) There never was a Lazarus and it was Mary dressed up in what was a dress rehearsal for Jesus own "resurrection" to see if people would fall for it. or
C) as Marlow suggested and so got himself sent before the Starr Chamber, Jesus and John / Lazarus were lovers and it is a metaphoric story about their Sexual rebirth as lovers.

In the Gnostic gospel of Mary Lazarus is mentioned as a bit of a weirdo who used to dress only in a white sheet, and often slept at the foot of Jesus' bed so garbed.
One then has to ask was the young man dressed only in a linen sheet in Mark 14:51-53 who flees the scene of Jesus arrest by casting off his sheet and running away naked was Lazarus/John, again spending the night in Gethsemane at his "master" 's feet.

@johnprytz
Was is good about Christianity is not original, and that which is original is not good,

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