4.25 Accusation: never died, so no resurrection?
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4.24 Accusation: Resurrection proves nothing
Reading Time: 3 minutes When such a complaint is raised as a rebuttal, it means that the sceptic is rather frustrated with their lack of choices and has no opposing theory he can go to. This objection doesn’t even challenge the resurrection, it questions the resurrector! So, is there any reason to believe anyone Read more…
4.23 Accusation: Jesus is an alien
Reading Time: 4 minutes Yup, it’s time to address it, even if Jesus rose from the dead, this does not mean that he was who he claimed to be. Perhaps he was an alien from another planet who was playing some sort of cosmic joke on humankind and led us to believe that a Read more…
4.22 We can’t know…theory?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Can we really know what happened? Ok you could say the disciples had some kind of experience, the strong view amongst critical scholars that reject the resurrection is that the something happened but we can’t know what. A few points to address this issue 1. This response is a rejection Read more…
4.19 Accusation: Gospel discrepancy theory
Reading Time: 4 minutes Are there discrepancies amongst the resurrection accounts? Critics often tend to accuse the gospel writers of not even being able to agree with each other. Were there 1,2. Or three women who visited the tomb? One or two angels at the tomb? Did they see the angel before they told Read more…
4.20 Accusation: Biased testimony
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s important to cover biased testimony as this is probably one that will come up pretty quickly in conversation. Critics will say that all we have are testimonies by Christians! Who surely transferred their personal biases and traditions into their writings! Therefore, we must suspect what is communicated here must Read more…
4.21 Accusation: Greater impact theory
Reading Time: 4 minutes This I nickname the boom argument, why didn’t Jesus have more boom? If Jesus performed all these miracles, then why isn’t he mentioned much beyond a few Christian sources? Why isn’t he mentioned by non-Christians in the first century of rising from the dead? Surely a risen Jesus would have Read more…
4.18 Accusation: Combination theory
Reading Time: 5 minutes What if we combine some of the theories we’ve looked at together? What if: Someone other than the disciples stole the body (Fraud 2) Peter experienced the hallucinated Jesus (A non-personal Hallucination of Jesus) Peter subsequently deluded the disciples into believing that they saw him as well (Delusion theory) Paul Read more…
4.17 Accusation: Epiphany theory
Reading Time: 4 minutes An epiphany is a sudden perception of reality caused by an intuitive breakthrough. For example suppose you were brought up in a family with atheist parents and have been an atheist since childhood. One night you’re looking up at the stars and say to yourself how could all of this Read more…
4.16 Accusation: Power theory
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did Paul convert to Christianity to lead the church in one of the most prominent positions? Well we know Paul was moving up Jewish leadership very quickly. Perhaps it wasn’t fast enough for him? Perhaps he would establish the Christian church would be filled with pride and empowered if he Read more…