Quote (Thor123422 @ Apr 19 2018 09:36pm)
Paul explicitly states he received his information by revelation, not first-hand experience of having met Jesus.
The earliest we can place Paul's letters are 70 A.D., and that's with all the most generous assumptions.
The grave once laid is empty? Do you know where the grave is? No? Okay then.
70AD is still sooner than 500AD when Mohammad came about. How does he have some newfound information 500 years later as opposed to the eyewitnesses who experienced these things first hand? The book of Luke is based on eyewitness accounts.
Over the Christmas holidays a friend went to Israel and went site seeing. Yes they did go to the tomb where they believe Jesus was laid. You are more than welcome to go to Israel and see where it all took place.
Quote (GetOnYourKnees @ Apr 20 2018 01:54am)
I guess you could easily apply the same argument to Islam. Even after the crusades and the level of animosity that muslims experience, Islam is still the fastest growing religion. So you can either conclude that god has forsaken your religion in favour of theirs, or you have to accept that religious proliferation has nothing to do with any divine intervention.
Or you could (and I'm sure you will) employ the same old argument of 'god's actions and intentions can't be understood by us mere dumb mortals'
1 Corinthians 18-25: For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
I for one trust God. All will be revealed in time.
Quote (Saucisson6000 @ Apr 20 2018 08:55am)
If you care so much then why don't you go to the world vision website and actually donate to charity? I doubt you actually do that or will start to do that.