Joseph Smith's plates had zero contemporary archaeological corroboration unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls confirming Isaiah's prophecies centuries before Christ. Your 'anonymous sources' claim collapses when Luke names eyewitnesses like Cleopas in Luke 24, detailed enough to include roadside dust and baked fish consumption. Acts' conversion accounts aren't contradictory but complementary. Paul tailored his testimony to different audiences like any competent witness. The Sanhedrin couldn't produce Christ's body because Romans sealed the tomb under penalty of death, their silence screams historical corroboration.

Isaiah 53's precise crucifixion description predates Rome's invention of the method by 700 years, statistical impossibility without Divine Inspiration. Your Josephus forgery claim ignores Arabic versions preserving the original James reference untouched by Christian scribes. Tacitus wrote within living memory of events, closer to Christ than Plutarch was to Alexander. The Ebionite red herring fails. James' ossuary bears the Nazareth inscription confirming early Christian veneration sites. Your 'symbolism' dodge can't explain why Roman historians like Thallus recorded crucifixion darkness or why Jerusalem's destruction precisely fulfilled Christ's Olivet prophecy within forty years.

"I doubt you believe in all of Islam's claims to miracles and what they say about God just because they mention historical places and potentially historical exploits." you say. Yet Islam's supposed miracles crumble under scrutiny, the moon-splitting claim leaves zero geological or astronomical evidence while Christ's resurrection triggered seismic cultural shifts documented across Roman, Jewish, and pagan sources. Joseph Smith's fraud was exposed when his 'reformed Egyptian' hieroglyphs proved gibberish while the Rosetta Stone confirmed Biblical archaeology's accuracy. Your 'anonymous sources' argument implodes under legal scrutiny. Paul names over 500 witnesses in 1 Corinthians 15, many still alive when circulated, making false claims legally actionable under Roman libel laws.

The Shroud's 3D bloodstain patterns match forensic wound mappings unavailable to medieval forgers, with pollen traces placing it precisely in Judea. Your 'different wrapping' claim ignores John 20:7's specification of a separate face cloth, confirmed by the Sudarium of Oviedo's matching blood type and traumatic stains. While you can point out that throughout the Bible there are historical places in it, and also that it may reflect some actual historical events, it doesn't mean that the specific claims made by the texts or people involved in the texts were accurate. you say. Yet Roman census records confirm Quirinius' governorship overlapping Herod's reign. And many religions have their martyrs who refuse to recant the beliefs of their religion." you say. But no other martyrs died for historically verifiable events they personally witnessed. Peter could have saved himself by recanting the resurrection he saw with his eyes, touched with his hands.

"Paul's alleged conversion only comes from him." you say. false again. Luke documents Paul's blindness healing in Acts 9, confirmed by Ananias' contemporaneous testimony. "In Acts the story changes each time." yet courtroom testimony varies in emphasis, not substance.

"Luke 24 presents the ascension of Jesus as happening on the same day of the resurrection. In Acts 1, the ascension is portrayed as 40 days later." Luke 24:50-53 describes a blessing gesture before Christ's final departure. Acts 1 expands the timeline just as Exodus expands Genesis' creation account. "That's symbolic play on the number 40, and 12 guys all speaking in tongues is symbolic." Archaeology confirms Pentecost's multilingual crowds while Josephus records exact priestly courses matching Luke's Temple details.

Your "Talking snakes, talking donkeys" dismissal ignores that evolutionists think animals evolved, so mabye these were evolved forms! "The Gospels crucifixion and resurrection accounts differ in such a way that makes them non-compatible with each other." No, they align perfectly when you realize John supplements synoptics' morning events while Matthew focuses on guard details.

"Your stuff about the Sanhedrin not being able to find a body and Roman guards abandoning their posts presupposes that a man named Jesus was crucified and buried in the manner stated across those texts." What? Even atheist historian Bart Ehrman admits Jesus' crucifixion under Pilate is "the most certain fact about the historical Jesus." "Texts that were not written down at the time, but decades later." 1 Corinthians 15's creed dates within five years of the resurrection while Papyrus 52 confirms John's early composition.

"Claims that did not go over well with Jewish people, and could only gain popularity in people of a different culture and society." Acts records thousands of Jewish converts including priests while Ossuaries prove early Judean Christian burials. "Those like James, were not Christians like you think they were. They were Ebionites, and the Christians rejected the Ebionites as heretics because they believed very different than they did." Jerome records Ebionites using Matthew's gospel affirming Christ's Divinity while James' ossuary inscription "James son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" confirms familial recognition.

"The Josephus account is a forgery and the Tacitus account was written almost a hundred years after the alleged events." Scholar Louis Feldman shows Josephus' James reference remains untouched in Arabic manuscripts while Tacitus accessed official Roman archives. "Even with mass media many people still believe the fictional story about Washington chopping down a cherry tree." Parson Weems fabricated that tale 20 years post-Washington's death while Christ's resurrection had multiple eyewitness accounts circulating within months. Christ's core miracles withstand scrutiny.

"The symbolic nature of the Gospels can easily be seen in Matthew 1. Three sets of 14 generations, that wouldn't be historically accurate. That's symbolism." Luke's divergent genealogy proves selective recording, not fabrication. "The Gospel of John placing the cleansing of the temple at the beginning of the ministry...blatant changing of the narrative." Ancient writers often arranged events thematically. John highlights Christ's authority while synoptics focus on chronology. "A virgin birth is just symbolic." Isaiah 7:14's 'almah' specifically meant virgin in context while Matthew quotes the Septuagint's 'parthenos', a term never used for married women.

"The texts in the Bible are in line with the mythological accounts of what people did back then." Dying and rising gods like Osiris never had single eyewitness accounts or transformed skeptics like James. "Only when we go home do we ever meet God." Christ promised "I am with you always", impossible if He only meets us postmortem. "All that a cabal seeking to assert tyrannical authority over religious people who believe the word of God is found in texts is to control the production and translation of those texts. Passages like Romans 13:1-2, and 1 Peter 2:14-15,17-18 look pretty obviously inserted by a tyrannical cabal to give themselves as an alleged God-inspired authority that has to be followed." Early Christians like Polycarp defied authorities unto death while Nero's persecution disproves your power-grab theory.

"The second half has God promising that if people don't obey what it allegedly said, then it's going to rejoice over bringing destruction upon them." Yet Christ's Olivet Discourse predicted Jerusalem's destruction within forty years, precisely matching Josephus' records of cannibalism during Rome's siege, while simultaneously promising salvation through Himself alone. Your 'tyrannical God' caricature ignores Christ bearing suffering on Calvary.

Your 'cabal' conspiracy ignores that most apostles died horrific deaths defending eyewitness accounts, hardly the behavior of power-hungry schemers. At every point, manuscript evidence, archaeological confirmation, sociological consistency, Christianity withstands scrutiny that vaporizes competing worldviews. Your objections rely on double standards no historian would apply to Alexander or Caesar. The resurrection remains the best-attested ancient miracle precisely because it erupted into documented history. That's why former skeptics like Strobel and Turek became Christians after following the evidence where it leads.