Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ArGee
It was science that was being used as the excuse for the action on both sides. The scientific argument was the public face of the political battle. As so often happens in history, it was the official reason as opposed to the real one.

Good grief--are you still at this? Maybe you should be talking to the guy who thinks that 500 people observed christ's resurrection, and were tortured to death by a mysterious cabal of conspirators for it.

355 posted on 05/25/2005 2:08:10 PM PDT by donh
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 351 | View Replies ]


To: donh
Maybe you should be talking to the guy who thinks that 500 people observed christ's resurrection, and were tortured to death by a mysterious cabal of conspirators for it.

That's the account of Paul.

1 Corinthians 15: 1-8 (RSV)
Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached 
to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand, 
by which you are saved, if you hold it fast--unless you 
believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first 
importance what I also received, that Christ died for our 
sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, 
that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the 
scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the 
twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren 
at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have 
fallen asleep.  Then he appeared to James, then to all the 
apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared 
also to me.

You don't have to believe Paul's testimony if you don't want to. He was writing this letter to people who could have checked his story out. You and I can't do that, so we ahve to turn to other tests.

As for the gruesome deaths of the Apostles, those are a part of Church History. They are not well documented but have been handed down for nearly 2000 years.

Shalom.

359 posted on 05/25/2005 2:16:53 PM PDT by ArGee (Why do we let the abnormal tell us what's normal?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 355 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson