Archaeology of the New Testament

You believe it's just a story. Many Christians/Jews believe it's a historical event. Why is that story just a story, but Jesus coming back from the dead is a historical event?
This is basically freshman level literary analysis...
The accounts of Jesus are authored in the mid to late first century by eyewitnesses or people who knew the eyewitnesses. Jesus is a historical person, as confirmed by multiple independent sources from Christian, Roman, Jewish, Greek, Gnostic, and Syrian authors.

The Torah is stories compiled by scribes a thousand years after the events they narrate. There is nothing remotely close to witness testimony/accounts in the Torah.

Why would God allow such claims to be made about him in a book that is supposed to exemplify morality?
God doesn't author or edit books. Humans write stories or narratives that describe their understanding, or lack of understanding, of God. Anyone who is remotely familiar with Job or Ecclesiastes knows that humans thought God was, in some sense, inscrutable, and God that did not give them all the answers.
Irrelevant.

Right. The list of things that don't make sense and that "nobody knows" why God would do it or allow it to happen, is long. It's almost like things just happen, free from any divine intervention, and people arbitrarily attribute divine intervention onto those events.

Irrelevant.
Fine, so you almost exclusively base your animosity about Christianity based on a few cherry picked passages in the Jewish Torah. While stealing Christian ideas about objective morality to express your moral outage about them.

That doesn't strike me as an intellectual or rational critique of Christianity as a whole.
 
I never played dodgeball, isn't that a game for girls? You seem intimately familiar with it.

Ever since elementary school, my sports have been baseball, football, basketball, tennis.
What kind of weirdo never played dodgeball?
We used to under-inflate them so you could get a grip and really sling 'em at somebody's face.
 
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