11 Replies to “Moving beyond COVID crazy: Is there evidence for Jesus’s resurrection?”

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    bornagain77 says:
    April 19, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    I watched this and enjoyed it very much. Of note, Lee Strobel was an atheist who tried to prove that the resurrection was false but ended up becoming a Christian instead because of the overwhelming weight of evidence that the resurrection is true.

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    Seversky says:
    April 19, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    Of note, I was raised a Christian but gradually became agnostic/atheist in part because I came to find the evidence for Christianity – including the resurrection – somewhat less than compelling.

    How can someone who is immortal die in the first place? And if they were never dead in the first place, what does it mean to say they were resurrected?

    Besides, you can find plenty of examples of people who have moved from belief to non-belief and vice versa. What does that prove?

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    jawa says:
    April 20, 2020 at 12:30 am

    Seversky,

    Of note, I was raised a Christian but gradually became agnostic/atheist

    Being raised a “Christian” does not mean becoming Christian. The Bible says it clearly. It’s a matter of trust in the divine person of Christ, regardless of how one could have been raised. For example Romans 10:9.

    You also wrote:

    in part because I came to find the evidence for Christianity – including the resurrection – somewhat less than compelling.

    1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (ESV)
    Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

    18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

    19 For it is written,
    “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
    and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

    20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

    21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach[b] to save those who believe.

    22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,

    23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

    24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

    25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

    Philippians 2:9-11 implies that God’s design is that all people everywhere should worship and serve Jesus as Lord. Ultimately all will acknowledge Him as Lord, whether willingly or not. But then it will be too late for many.

    You also wrote:

    Besides, you can find plenty of examples of people who have moved from belief to non-belief and vice versa. What does that prove?

    The Bible explains it very well.

    Matthew 7:21-23

    21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

    Professor John Lennox’s book “Determined to Believe?” discusses extensively the question of why some will believe and others won’t, even after reading the exact same Scripture. It’s a mystery.

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    jawa says:
    April 20, 2020 at 1:25 am

    @4
    Important clarification:
    Please note that Romans 10:9 refers to a “both-and” not “either-or” condition.

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    Truthfreedom says:
    April 20, 2020 at 9:50 am

    @Jawa
    Excellent posts. Thank you.

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    GCS says:
    April 20, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    Seversky @ 3

    Divine person dying and following –

    Of course a Divine Person can not die. That is why the 2nd Person of the Trinity had to take on a full human nature.

    Becoming like us, He could then suffer and die like us.

    Since He truly died, He could then be resurrected.

    Any other questions?

    Note – Ultimately He shared in our humanity so we could share in His Divinity. What wonderful news – Our destiny is to share God’s life with Him.

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    jawa says:
    April 20, 2020 at 3:19 pm

    GCS,

    Excellent explanation. Thanks.

    Let’s pray that our confused interlocutor may understand it well.

    Praise Adonai!

    Rev. 22:21
    Ap. 22.21

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    aarceng says:
    April 20, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    Did Jesus Truly die? Could he have just fainted, or been given a drug?

    The nature of crucifixion is that an attempt to feign death, or being drugged, means the victim has to slump down with the full body weight supported on the arms, and that itself will result in death by suffocation. That’s why breaking the legs hastened death. To cap it off Jesus was speared through the side by a professional soldier.

    We can be certain that Jesus DID die on the cross.

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    jerry says:
    May 31, 2021 at 9:15 am

    But I don’t think there is sufficient compelling evidence to conclude that he resurrected.

    Yet eleven of his closest friends went to their deaths with no possibility of earthly gain to profess this.

    Then there is the Shroud of Turin.

    http://www.shroud.com

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