The Apostle Paul also had a problem with those who questioned the truth of the events of the New Testament.
In his letter to the Church at Corinth (Chapter 15) he lists the eye witnesses for the resurrection of Christ.

The Resurrection of Christ
1Co 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,
1Co 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
1Co 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
1Co 15:4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
1Co 15:5 and that He was seen by Cephas,(Peter) then by the twelve.
1Co 15:6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.
1Co 15:7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.
1Co 15:8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.
1Co 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1Co 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1Co 15:11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

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He then goes on to highlight the implications of the Resurrection.

The Apostle Paul goes on to highlight the implications for the Resurrection.

The Resurrection of the Dead
1Co 15:12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1Co 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.
1Co 15:14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.
1Co 15:15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise.
1Co 15:16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.
1Co 15:17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!
1Co 15:18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
1Co 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
1Co 15:20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
1Co 15:21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.
1Co 15:24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.

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LesP,

Quoting the bible is like quoting Harry potter to prove the existence of dragons.
Both are books of fiction.
There has been no evidence of the afterlife. If you could prove this wrong James Randi will give you a million dollars. If by some faint hope that there is i would like to go to heaven and see Jesus talking to Hitler.

Plenty of evidence but the love of sin prevents many from receiving eternal life. Explanations outside of the bible really are full of nonsense and hot air. No rational person could believe in the idiotic big bang theory or its cousin evolution. Why do you think god deniers push these fantasies so hard.

(Joh 3:19) And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.

(Joh 3:20) For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

As some who was clinically dead from a massive haemorrhagic stroke, who came back to witness. I believe I can confirm a life beyond this one. But then that is on the basis of knowing, rather than belief.

Belief, no matter how sincere and devout never ever made a round world flat. But inculcated belief has seen fully grown tribesmen sink into a malaise and succumb to death when the tribal witch doctor pointed the bone.

Jesus never ever claimed to be God, but when Questioned on his miracles said, it is not I who does these things, but the Father in me.

It has been the church and men who made him into a deity to be worshipped at an altar. And foremost of those men was Constantine, who imposed and mingled popular at that time, pagan religious belief.

And changed forever original esoteric Christian belief. Belief that did not include worship at an altar, Nor marriage as a so-called sacrament, nor the confessional or its so-called holy seal, nor celibacy. given many of the Apostles were married men with wives and families.

Take butchers at the historically accurate if dramatised, Pillars of the earth by, Ken Follet Available as a book or DVD mini-series, or Constatine and the cross and free to see on U tube?

The Church needs root and branch reform and a return to esoteric Christian principles, before those that were imposed at the first council of Nicosia by Constantine and his stooges! But only if wants to remain relevant and true to the master's teachings/evocation.

And where he was remembered, rather than deified!
Alan B.

Great humour, calmness and respectful here in this discussion, compared to others haunted by Alan B, Steel'da nut'Redux. Slander and character assignation is so boring!

Any way, on a tangential angle to the authors interesting article, here is one last piece of advice from auntie "pig-ignorant" Alison Jane (my latest slandering descriptor) before the “end-of-days” prophecy delivers into oblivion (CC cultist will of course be saved by Gaia/mother-earth:

“Careless movements cost lives”, should replace the “Careless words costs lives” in this " Chai-na virus COVID-19 wartime scarey world.

Hippo 'isolation and social-distancing' day to you all.