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well...you're using made up as perjorative. frankly, i think the gospels are a supremely creative effort to relate and record the work of God through Christ Jesus. i say creative because they are at times ahistorical...not to state that they are in express disagreement with facts or known histories...but that they operate outside of that realm. their power is not in their ability to record a sequence of events, but help recreate for the reader the experience of being present at a revelation.
to be honest...i don't think the reality of the ressurection has a whole lot to do with what we moderns would call history. some people start asking questions about "if there was a video camera in the tomb...what would it show?" and it's at that point i realize that i'm not in the same conversation. asaris...i guess i'd say that i'm not sure that we're using the word historicity in the same manner. i mean it as "grounded in certain context, events, and recalled expereience." i don't think the reality of the ressurection depends on emprical certainty...
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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