I should probably do my own damn research, but I'm interested in the assertion 'some people are converted by the historicity of the resurrection' - I think it's quite hard to determine what causes someone to choose one set of axioms over another / convert to a religion, and I'm not sure if any actual studies have been done on that, either.
I know there are testimonies of 'I was converted because I looked into the historicity of the resurrection trying to disprove it and I couldn't', but I'm innately skeptical about those claims; I can see how that might get one interested in the area and then involved with the Bible etc etc, but it seems a very fragile thing to base one's entire faith in.
I guess most people probably undertake less self-examination / rational examination of their beliefs than I think they do though :) so they could think that it is based on that, or even have it actually be based on that, with far less discomfort than doing that would cause me.
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Date: 2012-01-16 06:43 pm (UTC)From:I know there are testimonies of 'I was converted because I looked into the historicity of the resurrection trying to disprove it and I couldn't', but I'm innately skeptical about those claims; I can see how that might get one interested in the area and then involved with the Bible etc etc, but it seems a very fragile thing to base one's entire faith in.
I guess most people probably undertake less self-examination / rational examination of their beliefs than I think they do though :) so they could think that it is based on that, or even have it actually be based on that, with far less discomfort than doing that would cause me.