The resurrection.

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Glory to God, peace to God, goodwill to all.

If millions of people in these ancient countries who lived and died in their conviction that their saviors died for them and risen from the dead, but yet all Christians believe that these stories are merely fairy tales, <b>then how can anyone be sure that Christ's resurrection was not one of these fiction stories of olden days? </b>

I'm not too sure which stories you're talking about, but to answer your question, ONE of the reasons why I believe in Our Lord's Resurrection is because when a handful of eye-witnesses to this historical event were asked to stop preaching the risen Christ & deny the Resurrection, they refused to & as a result suffered the following consequences for the sake of the truth:


St Matthew the Apostle - killed by a sword wound in Ethiopia.


St Mark the Evangelist - dragged by horses until death in Egypt.


St Luke the Evangelist - hanged in Greece.


St John the Beloved Disciple - after surviving an attempt to kill him in a basin of boiling oil, he was sent to the mines on the prison island of Patmos.


St Peter the first Pope - crucified upside down in Rome.


St James the Apostle - thrown over a hundred feet from the Southeast pinnacle of the Temple before being beaten to death with a fuller's club.


St James the other Apostle - beheaded in Jerusalem (& coverted the offical who stood by & watched).


St Bartholomew - flayed to death by a whip in Armenia.


St Andrew the Apostle - crucified on an x-shaped cross in Greece.


St Thomas the Apostle - stabbed with a spear in India.


St Jude the Apostle - killed with arrows.


St Matthias the Apostle - stoned & then beheaded.


St Barnabas the disciple of St Paul - stoned to death in Salonica.


St Stephen the martyr - stoned to death.


St Paul the converted Jew - torchured & then beheaded in Rome.

For instance, I've studied in Egypt the story of <b>Osiris</b>, who was worshipped for about 6000 years, and during that time, millions of Egyptians believed that Osiris raised from the dead; So...the question here is, <b>Will the Christians accuse the Egyptians for being dumb just because they believed in "the old version of Christianity"? </b>
OsirisPlease Christians tell me, how did you come to the conclusion <b>that Osiris resurrection was a myth, but Jesus' resurrection was a fact? </b>

As far as I'm aware, there are as many versions of the story of Osiris as there are Christian & Islamic sects combined. This is the first time I hear about him being resurrected. I'm starting to think that anti-Christians add details to those ancient accounts to make them compete with the Christian story, not the other way around.

<b>My questions are not over, please Christians enlighten me: are the Buddhists in error for their beliefs that their savior Buddha was resurrected from the dead but you are perfectly right for telling us that Jesus raised from the dead?</b> How did you come to know that they are wrong? <b>Is their religion wrong, simply because it happens to be another man's religion</b>.

Buddha resurrected? From what I've been taught, Buddhists, like some Islamic groups, believe in the migration of souls (reincarnation). I'm not familiar with Buddha's resurrection.


If I promise not to say anything about anyone's beliefs will you promise not to say anything about mine, because at the end of the day, it's not people's faith that I have issues with, it's their practises. At present, Christians co-exist quite harmoniously with Buddhists & Pagans, however, not with Muslims. That's why I'm on an Islamic board trying to resolve our problems.

So why Christians consider the resurrections of other "gods and saviors" of <b>OLDER</b> religions to be false, and accept the resurrection story of Christ when it was only told and preached in a recent religion?

Because Christ's Resurrection has a purpose. if Jesus didn't rise from the dead, you & I wouldn't be able to enter Heaven.

Christians have got 2 options:
<b>1- To believe that Jesus' resurrection was simply another myth borrowed from pagan religions. OR…</b>


2- To accept Islam which recognizes Jesus and places him in his right position

None of the above.


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