This is because we are dealing with a mind which has been programmed from childhood to accept dogmas without reasoning. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.

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This, he suggests, could not have happened if Christ had not risen from the dead (and that the body was produced).The strangeness of the Resurrection story had captured his attention, and, influenced by skeptic thinkers at the turn of the century, he set out to prove that the story of Christ’s Resurrection was only a myth. A fake message which is attributed to Byford appears in a Russian newspaper and is then syndicated throughout the English-speaking world. In fact, however, their "rewards" were of a different type, eventually involving lions, crucifixion, and every other conceivable method of stopping them from talking. spoke to a surprised class: while the idea of a miraculous resurrection appears to be a scientific impossibility --at least, if you define miracles as impossible-- all the purported natural explanations for the historical data also appear to be psychological, physical or historical impossibilities; yet something happened.

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His probings, however, led him to discover the validity of the biblical record in a moving, personal way. The older writing style strikes me as more literary and less analytical than what moderns are accustomed to in topics such as this. The idea that God LOST whole portions of His Book is something only a modern Laodicean would be spiritually dumbed-down enough to believe. The 39 lashes of the flagrum across the shoulders, back, and legs of the prisoner would cut through the subcutaneous tissue; would render the back an unrecognizable mass of torn, bleeding tissue; and would cause arterial bleeding from blood vessels in the underlying muscles. It is common knowledge that within three hours after death, rigor moitis sets in – the breaking up of the body cells – the hardening of the body.

For me, he made those scenes live with a poignancy and vividness that I have found in no other account, not even in the various attempts that have been made to present the same facts in the guise of a novel.

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It seems like Caiaphas was fast maneuvering his second move of the night: to convince the Romans that Jesus had committed an offense warranting capital punishment.He delivered thousands of lectures all over the world and successfully engaged prominent Christian Evangelists in public debates.