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Originally posted by stuartj
If these remains cannot be proven to JC, there exists more ( or a) reason to believe JC was the Son of God?
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No. I think you may have (possibly innadvertantly?) struck the nail right on the head. It will give you no reason to believe. It will give me no more reason to believe. It is, in essence, a non-event then.
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Originally posted by kang
Say they don’t “prove it” beyond a shadow of a doubt. Proof like that would be hard to come by. There will be some probability that it’s true, like 90/10 or 50/50 or 10/90. But even this, the possibility that it is true, casts major doubt on the resurrection. There would be an X% chance that those bones are his, and that he was never resurrected.
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It is either true or it is not. Assigning some statistical probability to whether this is true or not accomplishes nothing. Who assigns the number? On what basis? Just another thing to argue about, diluting the argument on a very straightforward "yes" or "no" question.
How would a somewhat arbitrarily asigned probability cast any doubt on anything? I think the only people who are likely to give any such number any weight are those that are looking for evidence of what they feel they already know. Any morsel is good enough in their quest for refuting "evidence". It is clear that nothing definitive will be "proven" here but, by golly, if there is a
ten percent chance this might have been him, that will be good enough in some folks' minds to cement their position.
We knew it; we just knew it; just a bunch of b.s., see?...