Is Belief in the Resurrection Reasonable?
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
After 4 votes and with 25 points ahead, the winner is...
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- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 5
- Time for argument
- One week
- Max argument characters
- 10,000
- Voting period
- One month
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
Format:
Round 1: Opening Statements (Make a case for/against the resurrection)
Round 2: Rebuttals (Respond to the opponents case with counter arguments)
Round 3: Rebuttals (Respond to the opponents Rebuttals)
Round 4: Answering Audience Questions (Respond ONLY to any comments/questions on the debate page)
Round 5: Conclusions (Restate and summarize the debate)
Definitions:
Belief - conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based on examination of evidence
Resurrection - the rising of Christ from the dead
Reasonable - being in accordance with reason
Forfeiture
Con's arguments were far from persuasive, or even logical.
"When you're a Christian. It's reasonable or correct or valid to hold that belief."
This merely passes the buck to whether it is reasonable to be a Christian.
"If you believe in or administer baptisms, it is logical."
This makes even less sense, as baptisms were administered before the Resurrection of Christ.
"If you believe in the death of Christ, it logically follows to believe in the Resurrection also."
This makes the least logical sense so far. Death is a certainty (along with taxes, as the idiom goes), but Resurrection flies in the face of thousands of years of people not getting resurrected, as well as our best understanding of biology. As someone who lived 2000 years ago, it is logical to believe that Jesus died, but it would require Extraordinary Evidence to justify a belief in his resurrection.
"There can be no resurrection without death."
True, but there CAN be death without resurrection. This is, in fact the far more common condition.
"When you understand the doctrine of salvation wanting it, it'd be reasonable to believe in the resurrection."
This requires that one already believes A. that there is a need for salvation and B. that salvation has been provided.
Full forfeiture
Full forfeit
Con FF
Thank you for accepting the debate, Mall!
Thank you for the welcome! Sure, I would be down for that.
Hello sir, welcome to the site! it seems you're an atheist, it would be cool to see you argue against my form of theism someday (pantheism).