"I had to respond to this comment because I get a "thread can't go that deep" message when I try to reply to your latest comment." - Yeah, it's a weird constraint.
More generally, it was a general knowledge that the body of Jesus disappeared, and the disciples were fighting off accusations that they stole it, there is surviving polemic on the question. However, only they knew that they didn't, and only they saw resurrected Jesus, because... anybody who saw resurrected Jesus, which did include some random people (including in crowds), became one of them.
You're mentioning other religions. Well, the only other two major open-membership proselytizing religions are Islam and Buddhism, and they are both based on personal revelations to Muhammad and Buddha, correspondingly, you just have to trust that what "came to them" is true, they are not rooted in any concrete historical "Q.E.D. by God".
(I hope you don't mind us continuing to talk? It's up to you of course)
"I had to respond to this comment because I get a "thread can't go that deep" message when I try to reply to your latest comment." - Yeah, it's a weird constraint.
It's not about pinky swore (and not one guy), it's literally what and why they were doing what they were doing, sine non qua. This was jotted down quite honestly and explicitly: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015:12-19&version=NIV
More generally, it was a general knowledge that the body of Jesus disappeared, and the disciples were fighting off accusations that they stole it, there is surviving polemic on the question. However, only they knew that they didn't, and only they saw resurrected Jesus, because... anybody who saw resurrected Jesus, which did include some random people (including in crowds), became one of them.
Here are some more details, for example (I hope this doesn't count as outsourcing of thinking, but details) - https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/jesus-of-nazareth/the-resurrection-of-jesus/
You're mentioning other religions. Well, the only other two major open-membership proselytizing religions are Islam and Buddhism, and they are both based on personal revelations to Muhammad and Buddha, correspondingly, you just have to trust that what "came to them" is true, they are not rooted in any concrete historical "Q.E.D. by God".
(I hope you don't mind us continuing to talk? It's up to you of course)