These are among the worst arguments for Christianity. First, the numbers are totally inconsequential when measured against both other miracle claims outside of the alleged “Judeo-Christian” tradition, as well as when they are measured against the billions of humans who have existed since the dawn of the species. Second, there are also alleged miracles in these other traditions that are incompatible with Christianity, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
You scoff at the demand for personal revelation, but you claim that your god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. For such a being, it should be easy, even desirable, to appear to every single human being and to instill them with actual and certain knowledge that this god exists, loves them, sent his only son to die for them, etcetera. But there is no such knowledge. There is no such certainty.
There are, in fact, no eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ ministry, death and supposed resurrection. There are sayings transmitted over the course of decades and reduced to writing in the contradictory, anti-rational accounts of the Gospels, and the ravings of a devout Jewish convert who never met the man and whose own accounts seem to contradict much of what is contained within the gospels, which were written by people well after Paul was buried.
This is without getting into the formation of the Hebrew scriptures, which are about as reliable as the Book of Mormon.
