mark wrote:
There is no way I can "win" an argument with someone who claims that he wouldn't be impressed by someone rising from the dead after 3 days.  So let's suspend this discussion about miracles until I've got something more compelling to tell you about.
Especially since you can't prove the man ever lived, let alone died, let alone rose from the dead after 3 days.  After all -- the tales in the Christian bible all give differing and conflicting versions of his "resurrection."    Perhaps you need to review R' Tovia Singer's Crucifixion Chart?

If you are so impressed with resurrecting gods, I have a few more you need to look into -- although following all these gods is going to keep you pretty busy!
After nightfall they came to the tomb, burst open the doors, came in and took away the finery, and saw that Anthia was still alive. Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale  (3rd? century CE)
and from Chariton's Chaireas and Kalliroe 1st century CE:
Chaireas was guarding and toward dawn he approached the tomb.... When he came close, however, he found the stones moved away and the entrance open. He looked in and was shocked, seized by a great perplexity at what had happened. Rumor made an immediate report to the Syracusans about the miracles. All then ran to the tomb; no one dared to enter until Hermocrates ordered it. One was sent in and he reported everything accurately. It seemed incredible-- the dead girl was not there...
 "What is there surprising in that ( being resurrected)?" said Antigonus : "I know a man who came to life more than twenty days after his burial, having attended the fellow both before his death and after he came to life." Lucian, Lover of Lies, Chapter 26 (2d century CE).
The list of dying / undying gods is pretty extensive.  Horus, Attis, Mithra, Krishna, Dionysus, -- there are more but those should keep you busy.

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And everything that Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. Bereshit (Genesis) 21:12
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