Resurrection of Jesus (Fact 2: Genuine Belief)

Fact 2: The Disciples of Jesus of Nazareth held the genuine belief that Jesus' rose from the dead.

References:

Craig, W.L., & Moreland, J.P. (2009). The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pulishing Ltd

Craig, W.L. (2008). Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (3rd Ed.). Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books

Evans, C.A. (2007). What Do We Know for Sure About Jesus' Death? In Craig, W.L. & Copan, P. (Ed.) Passionate Conviction: Contemporary Discourses on Christian Apologetics (pp. 109 -- 122). Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group

Habermas, G.R. (2005). Ressurection Research from 1975 to the Present: What are Critical Scholars Saying, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, vol. 3 (2), p. 135-153

Habermas, G.R. & Licona, M.R. (2004). The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregal Publications

Licona, M.R. (2006). Paul Meets Muhammad: A Christian-Muslim Debate on the Resurrection. Baker Books: Grand Rapids, MI

Komoszewski, J.E., Sawyer, M. J., & Walalce, D.B. (2006). Reinventing Jesus: What The Davinic Code and Other Novel Speculations Don't Tell You. Kregal Publiscations: Grand Rapids, MI

Meier, J.P. (2001). A Marginal Jew (vol. 3). New York: Doubleday, 69

Moreland, J.P. (1987). Scaling the Secular City. Grand Rapids: MI, Baker Book House

Nash, R.H. (2003). The Gospel and the Greeks: Did the New Testament Borrow from Pagan Thought? P&R Publishing Company: Phillipsburg, NJ

Wright, N.T. (2003). The Resurrection of the Son of God. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press

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[Finally4Christ]

I am soooo glad I found you! your videos rock! Very well done.

[matrixlone]

@thalamay you can also look up bart ehrman refuted

[matrixlone]

@telemantros as far as the deity of christ couldnt we just simply look up personal testimonies? or trying prayer if he really is there? i know theres some interesting testimonies on youtube i can give you some if you want

[thalamay]

@xTheUnknownTruthx Well, you can choose to close your eyes all you want, it doesn't make your fantasy any more real. But if it makes you feel better, all the power to you.

[xTheUnknownTruthx]

@thalamay You must be a comedian....

[thalamay]

@xTheUnknownTruthx Apparently you haven't run across historical criticism then. You should read Bart Ehrman, his latest book ("Jesus, Interrupted") for example does a good job pointing out what we do and do not know regarding the Bible.

[xTheUnknownTruthx]

@thalamay Right, I totally ignore everything that I learned in all of my history classes throughout my years in school. No...Out of all the teachers that i had for my humanities classes, most were Christian and see the way I do. Some were not though, but I still did my own studies for all of them to find out for myself what the truth really was. I didn't read into things, and still do not.

[Dogschach]

cont . . that being said, one distinction that is never really addressed directly, if at all, is that the Gospel authors, and the disciples are not necessarily the same thing. Therefore, the question is not if the disciples genuinely believed this, but the gospel authors did. Meaning, it is possible for the disciples to be telling colorful legends that the authors took to be genuine truths.

[Dogschach]

I understand that this is primarily aimed at those who claim that the disciples were lying but this is quite possibly the least relevant, and quite possibly, needless fact. As you stated in this video, them, or anyone, genuinely believing anything does not, in anyway, effect the truth value of the claims they make . . . cont.

[thalamay]

@xTheUnknownTruthx Nope, it stands whoever you are :)

The thing is that you choose to ignore the historical critical method and instead assert that the Bible has to be taken at face value. But that's a very arbitrary standard of evidence and is not acceptable in history departments around the world (unless you're in a Bible institute I guess...)

In other words, you're talking theology, not history.