You missed my point. “Extraordinary” comes in degrees.
Given that God exists and has stated his intent to resurrect, what was once rightly considered extraordinary becomes much less so. Well within the reach of historical facts.
I agree with the logic here, but obviously not the premise.
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Enormous “givens.” You can’t get to the given, so who cares what follows?
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I didn’t say that. The existence of God and his revelation of his intent to resurrect do that.
Given that, the historical evidence does indeed raise the posteriors into the realm of plausibility if not probability.
Given that pigs can fly, the probability of pigs flying is pretty good.
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True enough, given that. Which I do not. The truth of that claim also needs to be established, and the claim is extraordinary. Again the evidence barely rises to the level of mundane. We just have the claims made in some religious texts.
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Indeed. And when one looks to Christian apologetics for further evidence, what one finds is just a kind of evidence inflation: an attempt to make more of these texts than can reasonably be made. While literary and historical analysis can indeed shed light on all manner of issues, such as what the authors may have meant by particular passages, these sorts of tools cannot reach the nut of the thing, which is whether the paranormal events which these texts describe actually happened and whether the paranormal entities that appear in the stories actually exist. All one can say is that some ancient writers may have believed that these things happened.
The result? Argument, argument, and argument, but no apparent way to deal with the paucity of evidence. For every passage in the NT, a thousand pages of commentary; but all this heat generates no light.
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…says the blind man. 
I don’t know, I suspect you could power a 21st century metropolitan area for a decade on all the ink wasted on apologetics over the last few millennia.
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You: “But God, why didn’t you give me more evidence?”
God: “Well, considering what you did with what I already gave you, what would be the point?”
Me: To actually persuade me?
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Not his goal.
He already knows that you know.
So you say.
You already know that he doesn’t.
So says HE.
So you say.
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Just to be clear, I’m having this argument with you. Are you God?
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Do you think you know that I do not know this?
Your gambit.
Know what God want? I have seen no evidence that you know that God even exists, much less what his goals might be. All I see are the claims being made by you.
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Indeed. God’s inscrutable, except when the faithful know EXACTLY what it’s thinking.
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