What Happened to the Twelve Apostles?
Wonders for Oyarsa on 10 Apr 2009 at 11:49 am # I appreciate and understand the argument, but I wonder if you are overstating things. Though I gladly agree that there is no good solid counter-explanation for what happened in early Christianity other than the resurrection, I disagree that it is somehow irrational to disbelieve the resurrection. The skeptic simply need say “I don’t know what happened, but I’m pretty sure its something other than a dead man rising to life”. When I honestly examine my own motivations for belief, I do take the resurrection on faith within the teaching and testimony of the Church, and not on the historical evidence. I’m interested in the historical evidence, and I think it goes just as far as it needs to go – enough to show us that there isn’t any particularly good alternative explanation. I trust the witness of the apostles. But I can understand someone who might suppose that a person can convince themselves of a lie told to themselves enough times, or that
