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Jun 20, 2016 · A recent podcast listener offered the following objection: Couldn’t the disciples have been wrong about the death of Jesus? After all, when Paul was stoned by the Jews from Antioch and Iconium (in Acts 14) they drug him out of the city and left him for dead. “While the disciples stood around him, he got […]
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But how sure can we be that the story of Jesus and his resurrection really happened? What if the New Testament (NT) authors never intended their words to be taken as reliable reports about Jesus’s life in the first place? What if their writings contained far more fantasy than history? Those are precisely the possibilities some skeptical scholars ha...
Suppose you need to remember a list of items today. How will you make certain you don’t forget anything? If you’re like me, you’ll use a fountain pen to inscribe each item in a Moleskine journal. Or you may grab a ball-point pen and scrawl the list on the palm of your hand. If you’re more technologically inclined you may tap your to-do list into yo...
The problem with theskeptics’ claims, however, is they’reforcingan ancient culture to fit into the mold of modern expectations. The earliest Christians didn’t live in a culture of widespread writing and literacy. They lived in an oral culture. And in such cultures, experiences didn’t need to be written immediately to be remembered. In fact, people ...
And what kept these oral histories from degenerating into an empire-wide game of Telephone? At least three things: 1. People in oral cultures were capable of recalling and repeating oral histories accurately. In the oral culture of the first Christians, many were trained from childhood to memorize entire libraries of laws and stories, poetry and so...
The central claim of the NT is that Jesus was physically resurrected after being crucified. If this claim arose from decades of embellishment instead of historical truth, then Jesus is dead, the apostles were liars, and our faith is worthless (1 Cor. 15:14–17). But evidences from the first and second centuries reveal that eyewitness testimony about...
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Jan 4, 2022 · Jesus is alive in heaven with God, the angels, and all those who have trusted in Him for salvation (2 Corinthians 5:8). He sits at the right hand of the Father (Colossians 3:1), “higher than all the heavens” (Ephesians 4:10).
Apr 5, 2023 · What difference does it make if Jesus bodily rose from the dead? Why is his physical resurrection at the heart of the gospel message proclaimed by the apostles as well as the Church throughout its history?
- Jesus himself testified to his coming resurrection from the dead. Jesus spoke openly about what would happen to him: crucifixion and then resurrection from the dead.
- The tomb was empty on Easter. The earliest documents claim this: “When they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus” (Luke 24:3). And the enemies of Jesus confirmed it by claiming that the disciples had stolen the body (Matthew 28:13).
- The disciples were almost immediately transformed from men who were hopeless and fearful after the crucifixion (Luke 24:21, John 20:19) into men who were confident and bold witnesses of the resurrection (Acts 2:24, 3:15, 4:2).
- Paul claimed that, not only had he seen the risen Christ, but that five hundred others had seen him also, and many were still alive when he made this public claim.
Mar 15, 2024 · How do we know Julius Caesar died and Jesus Christ rose from the dead? We can follow four practices historians used to discover the truth about the past. 2,068 years ago today, Julius Caesar died and the world barely remembers. 77 years later, Jesus Christ rose and the world has never been the same.
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Jul 10, 2020 · In the Gospels, there are seven crucial signs that prove Jesus Christ rose from the dead. The story begins in Matthew 27 after the crucifixion of Christ has taken place. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, two wealthy men, have claimed the body of Jesus and placed His body in an unused tomb.
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