re proof of resurection jsledd ssdc sas upenn edu james sledd writes finally there is no proof of the resurrection of christ except in our spirits communion with his and the father s it is a matter of faith belief without logical proof incedently one of the largest stumbling blocks for rational western man myself included i hope that this is taken in the spirit it was intended and not as a rejection of the resurrection s occurance i beleive but i wanted to point out the weakness of logical proofs terms are being used in a loaded way here logical proof is an extremely messy thing to apply to real life if you think otherwise try to construct a proof that yesterday happened obviously it did anyone old enough to be reading this was there for it and remembers that it happened but proof a proof starts with axioms and goes somewhere you need axioms to talk about logical proof you can say that you remember yesterday and that you take as axiom that anything you clearly remember happened i could counterclaim that you hallucinated the whole thing to talk about proofs of historical events you have to relax the terms a bit you can show evidences not proofs evidences of the resurrected jesus exist proofs do not i think christianity goes down in flames if the resurrection is ever disproved i also think that this will not happen as the evidence for the resurrection is quite good as these things go it is not entirely fair to claim that you can only take the resurrection on faith there are reasons to believe it that appeal to the mind too
