Regarding physical death, when your spirit leaves your body, your body is dead. Jesus (God) is a spirit that DWELLED in a human body, and when his spirit left his body, his body was dead, but his spirit lives forever. It is the spirit that is the real "you"...not the body.
On the Christian view, Jesus BECAME human. So God BECAME human, which is entirely within his power and not contrary to traditional monotheistic theology.
Just like it was stated above, Jesus BECAME human, just like Phil 2:5-9 indicates...so he was a man. No problems there.
Just curious, why does the scenario have to be "if someone kills you"...why can't it just be "if I die one day, what will happen to an atheist like me, according to the Christian faith?"
That is for God to judge, although you've made it very apparent that Jesus never existed, so I mean...hey...
No doubt. Paul's letters are early stuff...with the earliest letter dated 20-25 years after the cross. Also, you mentioned that he wrote to various churches/cities throughout the Empire, which is a testament to how much and how far the word spread, starting from Jerusalem.
First, learn the difference between your criterion, and the criterion that actual historians use to draw historical conclusions, and once you do that, you will find yourself all by yourself, because even the most radical skeptics agree that the Apostle Paul is historical, and that Jesus of...
And I'd really like to know your criterion for separating fact from fiction.
No.
Well in that case there is no evidence for anything that is considered historical...since everything is based on hearsay. So if there is no evidence that Paul wrote 1Corinithians (which is not disputed among...
The only way you can be "certain" about history is if you where there...and you weren't there, were you?
Someone told you that Columbus sailed the oceans...that is hearsay, too. Do you believe that? If you do, then you are relying on hearsay. You weren't there. You don't know.
What claim? Paul's claim that he met the original disciples and they passed down to him a creed? Man I swear if the same criterion that is used for the history of Christianity was used for anything else in antiquity, history wouldn't even be a subject.
There is a difference in someone claiming...
I am so tough that one time I became so angry that I punched a brick wall, and then I heard a loud "Owwwwww" like someone in pain..
I didn't know walls could talk until then...