Why did the apostles travel far and wide preaching the gospel being persecuted and eventually going to their martyrdom proclaiming the truth of Jesus' resurrection if they knew that it was a lie? Christianity became the greatest religion in the world on the strength of that testimony. The first epistle is written only 25 years after Jesus death. The first Gospel, 40 years. The pre-pauline creed is traced to only months after his death. The historical evidence for Jesus resurrection is extremely strong.
Why is any physical state conscious rather than non-conscious if consciousness is not a fundamental aspect of the universe? The idea that the mind is a physical construct is likely wrong. Computers can be intelligent but will never feel a single emotion. They just organize physical information and send electrical signals for interpretation by the hardware that receives the output. Information is categorically different from experience.
70 000 people witnessed the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima in Portugal in 1917 at an appointed day and time by 3 children who had had apparitions to them for months. Two of them died in 1918. This is how they met their end:
"The siblings were victims of the great 1918 influenza epidemic that swept through Europe that year. In October 1918, Mary supposedly appeared to them and said she would take them to heaven soon.[3] Both lingered for many months, insisting on walking to church to make Eucharistic devotions and prostrating themselves to pray for hours, kneeling with their heads on the ground as they said the angel had instructed them to do.[2]
Francisco declined hospital treatment on April 3, 1919, and died at home the next day. Jacinta was moved from one hospital to another in an attempt to save her life, which she insisted was futile. She developed purulent pleurisy and endured an operation in which two of her ribs were removed. Because of the condition of her heart, she could not be anesthetized and suffered terrible pain, which she said would help to convert many sinners. On February 19, 1920, Jacinta asked the hospital chaplain who heard her confession to bring her Holy Communion and give her the Anointing of the Sick because she was going to die "the next night". He told her that her condition was not that serious and that he would return the next day. The next day Jacinta was dead; she had died, as she had often said she would, alone."
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You never know when your time is up. Repent now. Or this may be your fate for all eternity:
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Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
