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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Even after he intellectually accepted the probability that Jesus is who he claimed to be[/quote]

Not OP, but I think this is what OP was getting at:  you say he "intellectually accepted the *probability* that Jesus is who he claimed to be", and yet you haven't given us any evidence that could reasonably lead one to that conclusion.  Why probability?  That's OP's original question as I understood it.[/quote]

There is just too much data to list out here.  The outlines of the various possibilities for Jesus and the Resurrection were already given, along with some good essays based on those outlines.  OP and PPs can examine the evidence or not.

It's been many years now, so I don't even really remember what stood out the most to me or my husband, and certain evidence/arguments will be uniquely meaningful to each inquiring mind that comes along.  Since my husband has experience as a criminal defense attorney, it was significant to him that the eyewitness accounts were similar, but not perfectly synched, and that every single one of the men who claimed to have seen the risen Christ proclaimed the "good news" right through torture and grisly death (except John), and the consistency of their story/beliefs/actions, even when they were far from each other and under duress.  Since I am a writer and a student of history, I found the contrast of Christianity with both prevailing Roman and Jewish civilizations, as well as the humanity and unpredictability of the gospel narratives, to be compelling.  That's just a few.

I am an adult "revert," and I readily admit that I did not really have rational objections to the preponderance of evidence.  Mostly, if I admitted that Jesus was God, that would give him absolute authority over my life, and I never liked authority, and I like to be in control.  How objective is a drug addict about the morality of her actions when she is in the throes of her addiction?  I was addicted to selfishness, as I think most humans are, and I didn't feel like changing.  Also, it's not intellectually fashionable to believe Christ was anything more than a nice, wise man, and I didn't want to be seen as dumb.  But those are not reasonable objections, just motives for disbelief.
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