Jesus Resurrection

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Jesus Resurrection

• The Logic of Belief

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Manuscript Evidence

• first century
• 1000s

• date of writing
• manuscript authority

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Span to Earliest Copies
Number of Copies
Caesar 44 B.C. 1000 10 Plato
347BC 1200 7 Tacitus 100 AD 1000
20 Thucydides 400BC 1300 8 Suetonius
160AD 800 8 Sophicles 406BC 1300
8 Aristotle 322BC 1400 5
New Test. 100AD 0 14,000
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Secular Sources Jesus Lived

• Cornelius Tacitus
• Lucian of Samosata
• Flavius Josephus
• Seutonius
• Pliny the Younger
• Tertullian
• Thallus
• Phlegon
• Mara Bar-Serapion

Many 1st 2nd Century Extra-Biblical Sources
Testify to Reality of Jesus
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Politics Jn 1812 - 40Not about religion, but
money

• High Priest appointed by Rome
• Caiaphas
• better one should die for the nation
• Annas
• Sanhedrin
• Pilate
• I find no fault in him.

Fortress of Antonio Pilates Headquarters
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Scourged, Jn 191
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Golgotha Place of the Skull
Crucified Jn 1918-20
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Crucifixion(w/ legs twisted to side)

• ...intended to torture the victim for days...,
  JAMA

they did not break his legs Jn 1933
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Conclusion

• interpretation based on the assumption that
  Jesus did not die on the cross appears to be at
  odds with modern medical knowledge
• Mayers, J. American Medical Assoc. 3/21/86
• Crucifixion was Excruciating

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Laid In A New Tomb, Mt 2757-61

• Cut out of solid rock
• No chance for rear entry
• No chance for escape
• No chance for mixup

A Hewn First Century Garden Tomb in Jerusalem
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Spices, Lk 2355-56

• About 100 lbs
• Wrapped in linen
• Head napkin detail
• Bound in a resin (myrrh)
• No escape
• Difficult to remove

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Stone Door, Mk 1546

• About a ton
• Women worried about who would help them

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Guard, Mt 2763-65

• Roman Guard
• World Conquerors
• 16 men
• Four, 4 hr watches
• Round the clock readiness

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Matthew 2754

• when they saw the earthquake and the things that
  were happening,
• (the guard) became very frightened and said,
  Truly this was the Son of God!

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Jesus Tomb Was Emptyon the third day after his
death and burial.No-one of that time ever
suggested the tomb was not empty.
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How Was The Tomb Empty?

• Disciples stole the body?
• Priests confiscated it?
• Unknown pauper grave
• Wrong tomb

• Legends from later generations
• Hallucinations
• Revived, not raised
• Spiritual resurrection

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Dead men dont rise.
David Hume

• Hume rejected the resurrection miracle by
  defining that miracles cannot occur.
• A priori rejection
• Assumes the answer desired.

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Yes, a Jesus certainly lived and was a good man,
but he was just a good man.
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Jesus Claims

• Son of God
• Able to save men of their sins
• Divine, equal to God
• Accepted worship
• Claimed to be sinless
• Only way to get to Heaven
• The Fulfillment of Gods Law Promises

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The claims are either...

• 2) Knew He wasnt
• liar
• charlatan

• 1) Thought He really was!
• lunatic!
• god delusions

But -- his life death
But -- his Sermon on the Mount
From C.S.Lewis, God in the Dock
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• Based on an evaluation of the historical evidence
  it is not unreasonable to conclude
• Jesus Claims Were True

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But where is God when it hurts?

• God so loved the world that He gave HIS own son,
  that whosoever believes in Him may have eternal
  life. John 316

Where is atheism when it hurts?
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Without Jesus, nothing else makes sense.
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