The Resurrection Argument For...Judaism???
"God has advice for you: not only should you not follow him, you should reject his teachings, and maybe even kill him"
The most common argument for Christianity is the argument from the resurrection. Christians claim there is compelling historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus—often making wildly hyperbolic claims about it like that it’s among the best attested facts in ancient history—and that this fact vindicates Jesus’s grand, messianic claims. Given that Jesus claimed to be God and to die for all of our sins, we should take his claims seriously. In the words of one Christian apologist, “if you died and came back from the dead, I’d start taking what you say a lot more seriously.”
I think, however, that if one believes the scripture to be completely without error, from the resurrection evidence, we can construct an argument for Judaism, rather than Christianity. Rather surprisingly, there is a resurrection argument for Judaism—and one that I think should be amenable to fundamentalists. In fact, it might be that the resurrection shows that Christianity is false.
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