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As far as Buddah and Mohammad and so on, let me ask simply. Have any of them returned form the dead? Have they ever even claimed it? Do you know why they never claimed it? Because you have to do it to claim it.
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You can claim that you've done anything. I could claim right now that I drive a Porsche, date Brad Pitt and rose from the dead just last Wednesday. Whether people believe it is another story. Documented history can also be questioned along these lines. Whether the scribe was truthful or not is probably known only to the scribe. If he made his truth sound good enough, chances are people will believe it. It is just like today's tabloids.
This is where faith comes in. Faith involves sticking our neck out into the unknown and intangible because of a belief we hold dear. Whether Jesus existed, died and rose again can be debated historically, but there is no question that millions believe this to be true. I'd rather have faith than fact when it comes to my religion because I'd rather live on hope, change and perhaps the miraculous. There's enough fact in this world to bring me down.
