Eric Hovind #fundie

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Here are 5 powerful extra-biblical evidences for the resurrection:
1.The Nazareth Inscription – A 1st-century imperial edict forbidding the removal of bodies from tombs under penalty of death. It likely reflects Rome’s reaction to early Christian claims that Jesus had risen.
2.Tacitus (Roman Historian) – Described Jesus’ execution under Pontius Pilate and the rise of Christianity in Rome, affirming Jesus lived and was crucified.
3.Josephus (Jewish Historian) – Mentions Jesus as a wise teacher, crucified under Pilate, and whose followers claimed He appeared to them alive after His death.
4.The Empty Tomb – Even Jesus’ enemies couldn’t produce His body. All they could claim was that it had been “stolen”—an admission that the tomb was empty.
5.The Explosion of the Early Church – Thousands of Jews and Gentiles converted in Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified and buried. That wouldn’t happen unless something world-changing happened—like a resurrection.

Say it loud today: He is risen indeed!—and know the truth of that statement stands strong with a mountain of evidence supporting its claim.
11:08 PM · Apr 20, 2025 · 5,227 Views

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Weird, I could have sworn the Nazareth Inscription was based on the desecration of the tomb of a despised ruler on the island of Kos.

Tacitus never actually spoke about Jesus as a historical figure, but as an explanation of Christian beliefs, calling them a 'mischievous superstition'.

Josephus wasn't even born until something like a decade after the supposed death of Jesus.

Wait, that isn't evidence at all. That's just reciting the part of the bible that claims the body went missing.

Huh. A bunch of people roam the land claiming there were miracles performed at Jerusalem, and then travel and are met by evangelicals eager to convert them. Surely this has nothing to do with a rise in conversions.

None of that proves that the dead guy came back to life. It might prove that his disciple claimed so, but not that this was true.

Clay tablets in Cuneiform written by Babylonians describe the first civilisation: the Sumerians. According to what has been written in code thousands of years later, Sumeru exists. Artifacts of the former exist, as does merchandise relating to the latter licenced by miHoYo. There’s another ancient civilisation - China - proven via written documents at the time and artifacts: plenty of them. Now do the same with your J-boy, OP: artifacts proven to have been owned by him. We’ll wait. All someone has to do is download “Genshin Impact” and play such to the part where one is in Sumeru.

Frankly as one can see it, that civilisation exists more than he ever will.

4.The Empty Tomb – Even Jesus’ enemies couldn’t produce His body. All they could claim was that it had been “stolen”—an admission that the tomb was empty.

Uh, hmm….am I missing something there? It doesn’t look like he gave any “extra-biblical evidence” for that, at all.

5.The Explosion of the Early Church – Thousands of Jews and Gentiles converted in Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified and buried. That wouldn’t happen unless something world-changing happened—like a resurrection.

I’m guessing thousands of people converted to Islam in its early days, so does that mean what Muhammad said was true? Same logic, right?

1. You are reinforcing the mundane explanation…
Also, it’s rather presumptive that the case of one rabble-rousing provincial cult leader would be the sole reason for a decree from an empire spanning from Cumbria to Upper Egypt.

2 and 3: They are reporting what the cult believes. Opponents of Scientology reporting that Scientologists believe that L. Ron Hubbard discovered that Space Opera is real and and that all your problems are caused by ancient alien ghosts thrown into a volcano by Xenu using starships that look just like a specific contenporary model of aircraft exept without jet engines is NOT evidence that L. Ron Hubbard actually discovered that Space Opera is real and and that all your problems are caused by ancient alien ghosts thrown into a volcano by Xenu using starships that look just like a specific contenporary model of aircraft exept without jet engines.
Further, Josephus was born a few years after Jesu death, Tacitus two decades. Even in their youth, let alone by the time when they actually wrote their works (post Paul, contemporary with the long-form NT books), Christianity had had more than enough time for accounts to become embellished - giving the entirely unreasonable benefit of the doubt of a cult giving an accurate account of its origins in the first place - and for metaphors to be mistaken for real, especially by outsiders.
Finally, the positivity of Josephus's discussion of Jesus has brought suspicion that the passage is a Christian forgery.

4. Even nowadays, some corpses are never found, while others are found but never identified.
But then, do you have any documentation of said enemies conceding defeat outside the cult's account? If not, we cannot exclude the possibility of the body actually being found, nor indeed no such search taking place in the first place.
People have turned a case of a man getting away with a badly forged passport claiming to come from a country that does not even exist for years of international flights in the far more relaxed times before 9/11 into a spooky Unsolved Mystery™ suggesting alternate timelines or universes.

5. Cults can grow very quickly, and lie about their popularity. Nothing extraordinary here.

“Here are 5 powerful extra-biblical evidences for the resurrection:”
Why do i doubt this is true?

“1.The Nazareth Inscription …It likely reflects…”
This is the creationist approach to ‘evidence.’ Facts that are slotted into the preferred conclusions, with or without any objective justification. This isn’t evidence, this is rationalizing.

"2.Tacitus … affirming Jesus lived and was crucified.”
No, EEric. He affirmed that Christains SAID he lived. And was crucified. And rose again. ALl he did was repeat the stories that ended up being collected in the Bible. So, not extra-biblical, really.

“3.Josephus (Jewish Historian) – Mentions Jesus”
From tales told by CHristains, not because he ever met the man or witnessed the crucifixion. He also did NOT mention the zombies getting up and wandering the city

“4.The Empty Tomb – Even Jesus’ enemies couldn’t produce His body.”
And the ONLY possible way the tomb was empty was if the dead guy got up and walked out? If you’re looking for evidence to support a wild story, it needs to be the ONLY story to explain the evidence.

“5.The Explosion of the Early Church”
Did you ever notice how many people report their religion as ‘Jedi?’ And how the numbers spike at every movie released? Think about that for a minute…

"That wouldn’t happen unless something world-changing happened—like a resurrection.”
Trump hasn’t produced any miracles, but he HAS told people what they want to hear, what they want to believe is true, and he’s started a cult.

“Say it loud today: He is risen indeed!”
I’ll say ‘Eric Is An Idjit!’ loud and proud.

“—and know the truth of that statement stands strong with a mountain of evidence supporting its claim.”
You haven’t even uncovered a pebble, idjit.

Ancient stories are not evidence that their claims are true or that the “divine” exists, only evidence that ancient humans had a culture to form and vehiculate stories and that an elite could hire scribes to write it down at the epoch. You don’t hate science and critical thinking for nothing: they defeat your fallacies.