Saying it doesn't make it so.
Even if you could eliminate all the bad ideas you can think of, it doesn't mean there aren't hundreds of other ideas that you completely didn't think of to consider at all. Can't prove a negative.
Who said anything about eliminating "all the bad ideas"?
If i can prove that exclusive proposition A is true, then all propositions !A are thus falsified, by definition.
Saying it doesn't make it so.
If Christ didn't rise from the dead, that indeed proves Christianity false. If Christ did rise from the dead, it doesn't necessarily prove Christianity true.
Yes, actually, it does, because if Christ rose from the dead, then Jesus is who He says He is, that being God in the flesh.
Meaning God does exist.
And thus what He said, that He alone is God, and beside Him is no other god, is also true.
Christianity is an exclusive faith.
It is exclusive of all other religions (yes, in spite of some who try to claim otherwise).
Christ could have rose for another, completely unrelated reason, unrelated to Christianity.
You would have to demonstrate how that would be possible. Anyone can make claims like that one. But until you demonstrate how, that's all they are. And claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
He was crucified.
He was in the tomb for three nights and three days, and the tomb was sealed by the authorities, and guards were positioned outside the of it.
His heart had burst, as indicated by the water that gushed out of his side when pierced.
The dead do not come back to life, except through God's power.
If you want to claim otherwise, where is your evidence.
Anyway, it's difficult to assert that modern day Christianity has much in common with first century Christianity when nothing was recorded for decades after the apparent death of Jesus. Right?
So?
You cannot ignore the fact that immediately following Christ's resurrection, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens and hundreds of thousands of people's lives were drastically changed as a result of their faith.
That's evidence.
And that's ignoring other extra-biblical historical documents.
Sherlock Holmes books establish the fact that Sherlock Holmes was an historical person. He was an amazing sleuth. Therefore any person denying the reality of Sherlock Holmes is false.
That includes Hercule Poirot.
That includes Inspector Clouseau.
Appealing to fictional stories that have never claimed to be real doesn't work here. None of these characters exist except within the fictional settings that were created by their authors.
The Bible on the other hand does claim to be real, and presents evidence for its veracity that has been confirmed time and time again.
Well you brought it up, but yeah, I'm pleased for you.
I said:
The single best argument for God's existence is that without Him, you have no argument.
I meant that literally.
You don't even have the justification for the tools you would use to make the argument that God does not exist, because as I said, you have to borrow them from the Christian worldview.
