People claming to be witnesses to the resurrected Christ spent the rest of their lives executing on the Great Commission, going as far as India, Russia, Spain, and Carthage. Many did so under the threat of torture and death, and many were tortured and killed, never recanting.
There's no comparable event in history, and especially not in antiquity. Much of what we take for granted as ancient history comes with far fewer sources.
This is what kind of cracked my atheism and lead me to more fairly evaluate the claims of Christianity. Until that point I'd been a bit of a scoffer, taking for granted the premise that no organized religion could possibly be true.
Discovering eucharistic miracles led me further toward accepting Christianity as true. I still feel like kind of a crackpot mentioning the evidence. But there's strikingingly consistent features of eucharistic miracles, going back to a time where it wouldn't have been possible to fake. They all have a somewhat rare blood type, including ones that were preserved centuries before we knew about blood type. They're all human cardiac muscle. The more recent ones, which haven't decayed and lost evidence, have features that are consistent with someone undergoing extreme physical stress. They also have features that are consistent only with living tissue, even for samples that have been sitting in tap water for months or years.
There's no comparable event in history, and especially not in antiquity. Much of what we take for granted as ancient history comes with far fewer sources.
This is what kind of cracked my atheism and lead me to more fairly evaluate the claims of Christianity. Until that point I'd been a bit of a scoffer, taking for granted the premise that no organized religion could possibly be true.
Discovering eucharistic miracles led me further toward accepting Christianity as true. I still feel like kind of a crackpot mentioning the evidence. But there's strikingingly consistent features of eucharistic miracles, going back to a time where it wouldn't have been possible to fake. They all have a somewhat rare blood type, including ones that were preserved centuries before we knew about blood type. They're all human cardiac muscle. The more recent ones, which haven't decayed and lost evidence, have features that are consistent with someone undergoing extreme physical stress. They also have features that are consistent only with living tissue, even for samples that have been sitting in tap water for months or years.
See this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cardiologist-Examines-Jesus-Stunning-...