Quote Originally Posted by Pass That Shit
Are you saying that the entire bible is one story with one witness?
Certainly not! The bible, if I remember correctly, is a collection of 40 stories and there's many beyond that in scriptures such as the dead sea scrolls. I was only questioning the number of witnesses in the one story of Jesus's resurrection, in response to your claim that it had multiple witnesses.

Cause there were many different men who testified of God from different generations and so there are MANY witnesses who say the same thing.
Many different men did testify from many different generations. But these men all held a geographically and culturally similar belief in god. For instance there about 40-50 different authors who have written Star Wars novels (which I read as a teenager) that all tie into the same story line, all of which affect the other. I wouldn't say this affects the plausibility of Star Wars though.

Are they all lying?They're either telling the truth or they are telling lies. There is no gray area. Something is either true or it's not.
Something is either true or not, you're absolutely right. But why must every truth or falsehood be from a lie or a truth? Consider the Hindu's who believe(d) in several dieties, the greeks who believed on Poseidon the god of the sea, the Viking's who believe in Thor the blacksmith of the gods. Where all these religions lying? Of course not, they were genuinly mistaken in some cases, and in other cases these mythologies have a long and complex process over which they develope.

Many stories in the bible (if not all) have almost matching versions already existing in now-extinct ancient religions. It's more than plausible that these stories were believed by those who held them, altered them a bit to fit into the bible, and continued the tradition.


God is true!
For you he undoubtedly is. But not for me, sorry.