People who are unchurched or dechurched, and even people who profess to be Christians, they need to realize and know that there’s a great deal of evidence for the events in the New Testament. And science and history and logic and reason all provide evidence…not only for these events…but also for the reliability of the New Testament documents (the Gospels and Acts in particular).
Something extraordinary happened in the early first century that enabled and motivated a tiny sect in the miserable and desolate armpit of the Roman Empire to not only survive, but to thrive. This tiny group, who had no power and no finances and no territory and no army, was able to withstand the persecution of the Jewish Temple…the very center of Judaism and national identity of Ancient Israel…which had an abundance of all of these things. The power structure of Judaism was the first group to persecute Jesus and His followers.
The Jewish Temple later joined forces with the despised occupiers of Judea, the mighty Roman Empire, and this same tiny sect was able to withstand the persecution of these combined forces as well. And the Roman Empire had vast amounts of power and finances and territory, and a huge army. Something clearly extraordinary was at play to bring these things about.
There is no evidence for the supernatural events described in the bible. We only have what someone wrote.
The people of the time where more likely to believe in supernatural things, seeing signs and wonders where we, being more sceptical with our better understanding of the natural world, would not.
Oh my....scriptures from God the Bible is not evidence? We have discussed that many times....well anyway, your statement is unworthy to Theist and that is what separates Theist from Atheist.
More than a number of times, but you never seem to be be able to grasp the fallacy of begging the question, which means that what is written in a book is not evidence for the truth of its own claims. It's also called circular reasoning.
You don't accept evidence as being something that is written other holy books, yet you are happy to apply the fallacy to your own holy book, the bible. Which is a double standard.
