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First-century people were primitive.

Craig A. Parton

The belief that first-century people were primitive is illogical, untrue, and unhistorical.

The claim that new things are necessarily better fails to judge things on their own merits.

Human nature and society have not changed significantly over time, and most great human ideas were already circulating in the first century.

If Christian ideas were primitive, they would not have been the force behind revolutionary developments in healthcare, education, science, and the arts.

A current objection to the Christian position is that primitive first-century people recorded primitive events and concocted in equally primitive morality.

Primitive people sacrificed their children to appease bloodthirsty-imagined gods.

They treated diseases with toxic remedies and vacuous incantations.

People had limited means to travel, which created almost impermeable geographic zones of ignorance and limited contact.

They lacked the cross-pollinating of ideas so crucial for progress and advances of science.

They did not have the scientific answers or explanations we modern have.

Direct application of this to Christianity is obvious.

Backwards' first-century uneducated fisherman, also known as the Apostles, gave birth to backward ideas.

They described events unusual to them in necessarily miraculous terms, thus Jesus rose from the dead.

People had no other way to make sense of the event by explanations like mass hallucinations or principles of magic known now.

David Copperfield can make the statue of liberty disappear, so why not make a single man appear to be alive again?

This argument is logically fallacious, factually vacuous, and historically unsupportable.

The argument is logically fallacious.

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