Agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman says that we can’t trust the Gospels in their reports about Jesus’ resurrection. His basic argument is that the Gospels are “hopelessly contradictory” (The Historical Jesus). In his 2006 debate with William Lane Craig,...
Is The Resurrection A Lie? Are the gospel accounts of Jesus’ resurrection reliable? Or did the Apostles make the whole thing up? In this Ready Reasons video, I discuss why we can believe the gospels when it comes to their account of the resurrection narrative....
Is the Resurrection a Rip-off of Pagan Myths? A popular objection is that Jesus’ resurrection is a rip-off of dying and rising deities within pagan mythology. Should Christians be alarmed by this? In this Ready Reasons video, I give reasons why the answer is no. For...
Skeptics will argue that Jesus’ resurrection is just one more instance of the dying-and-rising-god motif prevalent in the religions of the ancient Near East. The Scottish social anthropologist James Frazer popularized this motif in his 1890 book The Golden...
In a recent article posted at the Catholic Answers blog, I showed why the hallucination and vision theories fail as explanations of Jesus’ resurrection. One of the arguments I gave is the empty tomb argument: if the apostles were hallucinating or only having a vision...
