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. . This "solution" would work in the case of the gospels if you could find direct admissions by the gospel writers that they fabricated the miracle stories about Jesus. But this is hard to do. If you lived in the 1st century and Peter, James, or John confided in you that they made it up,...

Matthew records about Jesus' fourth collective appearance to the apostles, on the mount in Galilee, that "when they saw him, they worshiped him, but they doubted."(Matt 28:17, "προσεκύνησαν, οἱ δὲ ἐδίστασαν.") This would have been after Jesus convinced them in Jerusalem that he ...

1 Corinthians 15:14 suggests that the resurrection was doubted by some. First, this is about the future rising from the dead, rather than Jesus' in particular. Still, there is a logic that since some of the Corinthians didn't accept the general resurrection that they wouldn't accept Jesus' either. ...

And while we are on the subject, what is the best evidence that Luke Skywalker is Darth Vader's son? Jay, In the case of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, it would be very compelling if you can find statements by Star Wars' writer admitting that he wrote Star Wars, as well as confirmation of his clai...

It looks like out of these there are 15 reasons why there probably was not a real physical transfigured resurrection, but rather an invented story mixed with delusions. However, this does not really look conclusive, because you can go through and make counterarguments for all these reasons. For exam...

Can you list the strongest, most direct pieces of evidence to doubt the transfigured Resurrection? By the "transfigured Resurrection" I mean that Jesus in his new postmortem state had become transfigured, such that He could travel through walls, appear and disappear, be unrecognized by Hi...