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To: stuartcr

Forensic evidence for the forgiveness of sin:

1. relevant prophesy and statements by Jesus in Holy Scripture

2. ownership of Christ’s tomb by Joseph of Arimathea

3. Christ’s empty tomb

4. the behavior of the disciples following the crucifixion

The last piece of the puzzle here has to do with the fact that the above evidence points to the most likely explanation which is that Christ rose from the dead.

So in the larger scheme, we have the Creator sending his son to die on the cross and then raising him from the dead while offering the promise that this will bring forgiveness of sin to all who believe. Once it’s established that God came through on his promise to raise Jesus from the dead, the most rational thing by far is to take God at his word that the part about forgiving sin is also true.


186 posted on 07/20/2012 4:16:01 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: reasonisfaith

And none of that requires a leap of faith, right. You have to actually establish that God did raise Jesus from the dead. Unfortunately, people say they don’t believe it.Then where are you? Youthen have to establish that what the book said was right, then people ask to prove that, all of this reqires leaps of faith. It’s circular, because all someone has to say is prove it, and you say because it’s written, then people say prove what was written is correct...etc

If that is what you call forensic evidence of the forgiveness of sins,I hope your not a lawyer. It’s not even posible to prove sin exists!

I’m sorry, but your just not going to be the one human on earth that can prove any of this and end up with millions of converts that finally believe. This conversation has been going on forever, you have nothing new to bring to the table.

I know this means a lot to you, so you should of course keep pursuing it, there are worse windmills to be tilting at.

Good nite and thanks.


187 posted on 07/20/2012 9:46:27 PM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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