The Resurection of Jesus Christ.

Why I do not believe in the resurrection of Jesus: 1. THE BIBLE: Whereas the Pro believes the bible is a reliable source, I do not. The Pro makes the declarative statement that the bible has never been found inaccurate. This is false and there are many reasons why. What does inaccurate mean when pertaining to the bible, I assume he means that there is no errors to be found in scripture? Here are three example of biblical error out of many. THE CITY OF TYRE Ezekiel 26:14 I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken," says the Lord God. (NKJV) The god of the bible makes it clear that the city of Tyre would be demolished and would never be rebuilt. I only gave the one verse due to space, I encourage readers to read the whole chapter for themselves. I have seen how Christians try to explain this chapter away from the idea of it being a failed prophecy but the attempts do not add up to what the passage says. In fact not only is this city still standing today, Nebuchadnezzar never breached the walls, this mighty feat was accomplished by Alexander the great later in history. Either way the city still stands. This prophecy failed. THE CENSUS The biblical historian Richard Carrier points out another biblical flaw found in the accounts of the census that required Joseph to return to Bethlehem. "The Gospel of Luke claims (2.1-2) that Jesus was born during a census that we know from the historian Josephus took place after Herod the Great died, and after his successor, Archelaus, was deposed. But Matthew claims (2.1-3) that Jesus was born when Herod the Great was still alive--possibly two years before he died (2:7-16). Other elements of their stories also contradict each other. Since Josephus precisely dates the census to 6 A.D. and Herod's death to 4 B.C., and the sequence is indisputable, Luke and Matthew contradict each other." http://infidels.org... This is a historical discrepancy and one of the many biblical contradictions found in the perfect word of god which claims within its own pages to be perfect. THE FLOOD The bible declares that god flooded the earth and saved only a few people along with some animals, the point here is that if this event happened then we would have evidence for it, yet we do not. In fact when this event supposedly happened the 6th dynasty of Egypt was not effected, nor was any other part of the world to which we would have evidence of this grand event. What more do I need to say other than there is no evidence for the flood. 2: NO EXTRA- BIBLICAL EVIDENCE Outside of error laden scriptures there is no evidence for a resurrection, at least no contemporary accounts. First of all we do not have eye witness accounts of the resurrection. Secondly the Gospels were not written in the time in which this event supposedly happened. They were not written until decades later. Even with that said we do not know who wrote these accounts. Historians agree that the titles of the Gospels were later attributed to the writings. Historians also agree that the Gospel according to Mark was the first Gospel written and ended in chapter 16:8 ( Chapters and verses were also add way later), this is known as the short ending which pre-dates all other endings of Mark. The point is that if you stop reading at Mark 16:8 you have no resurrection story. All other Gospels have later dates. This tells me that the Gospels were based on oral tradition since we are not aware of any manuscripts that date at the time of the event. Now this does not necessarily disprove the resurrection, but when you start adding up all the issues it become harder to believe such an event took place according to scripture, that is if you even believe the scripture are true, which I do not. Also I would like to point out that Paul declares that the risen Jesus had shown himself to 500 plus people ( believers no doubt), why wouldn't at least one person record this event, certainly if there is a god of the Christian belief he would have seen it fit to give us better records. 3: BURIAL AND DURATION I will not spend my time worried about whether Jesus was actually crucified. All I can say that if he was crucified as a criminal then typically the Romans denied victims a burial (Martin Hengel Fortress Press 1977). Let alone to be buried in a tomb of a member of the Sanhedrin who condemned the very man crucified. Two quick points about the empty tomb and the duration of tomb occupancy. First of all, why can we not assume a more plausible explanation of an empty tomb by simply advocating for the removal of the body of Jesus by Joseph, it was his tomb, he would have a right to remove it and place it were most criminals were buried? Secondly, I notice that the Pro and many other claim that Jesus was in the tomb for three days. You have Jesus buried before sun down on Friday and an empty tomb found by Mary before sun up on Sunday. This is not three days. I believe Jesus proclaimed it would be like the story of Jonah and the fish. Seems to me that this is not like Jonah in the belly of the fish. 4: EMPIRICALLY IMPLAUSIBLE We have never witnessed a live person dying and being raised from the dead, it just does not happen. Many stories written in the past have claims to resurrection as well and these stories that pre date the supposed resurrection of Jesus. I am certain Christians do not believe any of these other accounts, so why believe this one when you have problems in the scriptures which proves that it is not without error? Conclusion: Because the bible is not without error we cannot conclude it was inspired by any superior being. If we know it is not correct in many areas then how can we know it is correct in areas that supernatural things occur, such as the resurrection? Historically the bible gets plenty of things correct, yet still it gets many things wrong as well. Scientifically it gets enough wrong to wonder why people believe it still to this day. There are many more things that can be said, but I believe I have given enough reasons to why I do not believe the resurrection happened. The evidence is just not good enough, especially if you do not believe the bible to be an adequate source for such extraordinary claims. I look forward to hearing my opponents evidence for the resurrection and his rebuttals to my arguments. Thank you