Who were these "500 people" who supposedly saw a resurrected Jesus?

"I have personally seen the resurrected Jesus"

I've personally seen pink elephants and fire-breathing dragons, too.

How drunk were you?

They Are Mentioned In The Gospels And Sadly We Do Not Even Know Who Wrote The Gospels Or We Don't Even Have The Originals Of The Gospels Until The 4th Century

The statement you are quoting doesn't come from the Gospels, but from a letter written by Paul to the church in Corinth about 27 - 30 years after Christ's death. The statement is an open challenge to question the eye witnesses. Most people who study ancient writing admit that Paul obviously believed the 500 people would confirm his statement that Jesus was alive. They also agree that the people would have been known by the people of Corinth, since he shows no need to list them. The statement alone doesn't prove Jesus rose, but the statement by Paul, when studied by greek literary historians, does show Paul believed and was willing have his beliefs investigated. You can claim Paul was mistaken, but it is simply foolish to believe he was lying.

Be rational about this please. Where in the Bible is that mentioned?

1 Corinthians 15:1-9

1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

5And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

6After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

7After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

8And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

As to the where it happened it is not stated. Some would suggest it was when Jesus ascended into heaven, but it did happen. If it were not so there would be critics that would come against Paul about his teaching a resurrection from the dead. But that was not what his enemies charged. They merely disagreed with his ascertion that Jesus was the Christ but not about the resurrection.

For I highly think it logical that if one ot two or three or even 10 reports of the ressurection would be weak. But 500? I doubt it.

The gospels were too named..that is ridiculous.

We have eye witnesses in the gospels. This IS evidence, if you choose to believe it or not.

Two of the gospels were written by the apostles Matthew and John, men who knew Jesus personally and traveled with him for over three years. The other two books were written by Mark and Luke, close associates of the apostles. These writers had direct access to the facts they were recording. The early church accepted the four gospels because they agreed with what was already common knowledge about Jesus' life.

Each of the four gospel writers made a very detailed account. As you would expect from multiple biographies of a real person, there is variation in the style but agreement in the facts. We know the authors were not simply making things up, because the gospels give specific geographical names and cultural details that have been confirmed by historians and archaeologists.

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Funny, because in later books it says that many of the people who were included in those 500 were "still alive," which meant you could go ask them.

Why do you need a list of names and addresses for this to be true? Saying that 500 people saw Jesus resurrected may not prove it to you, but posing a question like this doesn't mean it's false, either. It instead sounds like you're trying hard to find reasons to NOT believe. What are you running from?

It achieved reported it in them thar bible so as that be thar information magnificent there! The bible and the memories in it have not any information to help it and every time we come across any information concerning to the supernatural activities interior the bible, we come across the bible replaced into fake, so I casually brush aside it as a lie. I do choose for to show out one mistake you made. You declare that if something is a actuality that there is information that the declare is genuine. interior the precis, that assertion does no longer unavoidably postpone. something must be genuine and yet there's no information to help it.

Wow... grasping at straws are we. Any other history you care to rewrite, or are you just mindlessly repeating some cr@p you heard from someone else? Why don't you just pick up a Bible which gives the history of the books in the introduction. The New Jerusalem Bible is a good one. There you can read when the book was written, and by whom.

well, that account is just in one of the gospels...it also stats that saints rose from their graves

Read "The Age of Reason," Thomas Paine

No. We are taking God's Word for it. The Holy Spirit proves the Scriptures. If someone along the way added "written by Daffy Duck," the content would still hold true, people would still be saved, and the instigator held responsible.

Yes you are right there. Coz the Bible says so. It might have been only 50 or even 5 for all we know, typo error, mistranslation, misinterpretation that always occurs in the Bible.