The pagan philosopher Celsus, a prominent second-century opponent of Christianity, raised a number of objections to the resurrection. For example, he claims that discrepancies are present in the Gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ resurrection
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“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
“if you’re a first-century Jew, and your favorite Messiah got himself crucified, then you’ve basically got two choices: Either you go home or else you get yourself a new Messiah. But the idea of stealing Jesus’ corpse and saying that God had raised him from the dead is hardly one that would have entered the minds of the disciples.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
“Christians find in God a source of moral strength that helps us to lead better lives than those we would have led without Him, still it would be arrogant and ignorant to claim that unbelievers don’t often lead good moral lives—in fact, sometimes lives that put ours to shame.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
“Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
“Paradoxically, then, even though the problem of suffering is the greatest objection to the existence of God, at the end of the day God is the only solution to the problem of suffering. If God does not exist, then we are locked without hope in a world filled with pointless and unredeemed suffering”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
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