/lit/ - Literature

Can somebody PLEASE explain to me how somebody can be a Christian when there is no good reason to believe in Jesus' resurrection? It seems as though people here act like Christianity is a reasonable faith to have and that to be a Christian you don't have to commit intellectual suicide, when there's no good reason to believe that Jesus came back from the dead. Can a Christian explain why they believe that Jesus rose again? After all, Paul said that if the resurrection didn't happen then there's no point to Christianity.

Aren't Christians sort of determinists? They seem to believe that the universe and every single moment is all there, all created by God. We still can choose to do things to other people, but in a way what happens necessarily happened.