Affirming the Resurrection via ‘historical bedrock’-Pt. 1

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the corner stone, the foundation, the historical bedrock of the Christian faith. As Paul so definitively put it, “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins….but in fact Christ has been raised from the dea
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Eyewitness Testimony in the New Testament, untrustworthy or reliable?

It has often been stated that the Christian faith stands or falls on history, that of the historical event of the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. William Lane Craig states, “Without the belief in the resurrection the Christian faith could not have come into being.” [1] N. T. Wright
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Skeptic/enemy attestation support historical claims-more on the Historicity of the Resurrection

In a previous article, I highlighted one of the historical criteria used in assessing the veracity of an historical event, the criteria of embarrassment. Another criteria is that of enemy/skeptic attestation of the resurrection. This particular criteria is one of the most powerful his
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The Jerusalem factor: An historical puzzle piece

As a puzzle piece in the historical puzzle of the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection, the Jerusalem factor, has always been of particular interest to me. The Jerusalem factor (along with the criteria of embarrassment and enemy attestation) is what I consider to be one of the most powe
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