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ResurrectionThe Good News
  • Rudolph Bultman
  • The father of demythologizing
  • If the bones of a dead Jesus were found tomorrow
    in a Palestinian tomb,
  • all the essentials of Christianity would remain
    unchanged.
  • Christian Modernism

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ResurrectionThe Good News
  • Paul
  • If Christ has not been raised
  • our proclamation has been in vain
  • our faith has been in vain
  • we have misrepresented God
  • our faith is futile
  • we are still in our sins
  • those who have died in Christ have perished
  • We are people most to be pitied

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ResurrectionThe Good News
  • Who is most likely to be correct
  • the apostle or the skeptic
  • first century founder
  • or
  • twentieth century critic
  • Jew who new Christ or German Scholar?

4
Resurrection Completes Our Salvation
  • Concrete, factual, empirical truth that
  • life has hope and meaning
  • love is stronger than death
  • goodness and power are ultimately allies
  • life wins in the end
  • God has touched us right here where we are
  • The Apostles Give Empirical Witness

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Resurrection Completes Our Salvation
  • The Greatest Importance is not in the Past
  • CHRIST ROSE
  • but in the present
  • CHRIST IS RISEN
  • And we will do the same!

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • Christ is not a Ghost
  • He eats and has substance

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • It is not a resuscitation
  • Unlike Lazarus, it is permanent

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • It is not reincarnation
  • Christ does not receive another mortal body

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • It is not simple immortality
  • the freeing of the soul from the body
  • He is the first Fruits,
  • the pioneer of life

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • It is distinct from Enlightenment, or Nirvana, or
    satori, or moksha
  • It is not a re-absorption into the One
  • as in Hindu or Buddhist hopes at death
  • Jesus is a distinct individual

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • It is distinct from translation or assumption
    into heaven
  • Jesus is brought from the dead back to the living

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • It is not a vision
  • Visions are spiritual and subjective
  • Jesus is seen in public

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • It is not a legend
  • Fictions devised by mortal minds

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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • It is not a myth
  • Christ is pinned down to a specific time and
    place in history

Osuary of Caiaphas
Pilate
Herod
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ResurrectionTen Confusions
  • Easter Faith without a real Easter is
  • a self-contradiction or a self deception
  • Modernists would have us believe in
  • A resurrection of Easter Faith
  • Faith in faith is perverse and unnatural
  • Faith needs an object other than itself in much
    the same way masturbation is related to copulation

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The Argument for ResurrectionFive Possible
Theories
  • Jesus Died Jesus Rose 1.) Christianity
  • Jesus Didnt rise the apostles were
    deceived 2.) Hallucination
  • the apostles were myth makers 3.) Myth
  • the apostles were deceivers 4.) Conspiracy
  • Jesus didnt die 5.) Swoon

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Refute Swoon
  • Jesus could not have survived crucifixion.
  • Romans were very thorough.
  • Roman law laid the death penalty for any soldiers
    who even let a prisoner escape much less bungle a
    crucifixion

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Refute Swoon
  • Jesus could not have survived crucifixion.
  • The Roman soldiers did not break Jesus legs.
  • They were certain he was dead
  • Eye witness reports of blood and water from
    Jesus lungs.
  • The lungs had collapsed. He died of asphyxiation.

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Refute Swoon
  • The body was totally encased in winding sheets
    and entombed.
  • The post-resurrection appearances were of a
    vibrant living man not a staggering, half dead,
    sick man in dire need of a doctor.

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Refute Swoon
  • How could a swooning half dead man move the great
    stone?
  • It was not in the interest of Jews or Romans to
    move the stone
  • Where is the body?
  • The swoon theory really turns into the conspiracy
    theory

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Refute Conspiracy
  • No one
  • weak, strong,
  • saint or sinner, Christian or heretic ever
    confessed under any circumstance that the
    resurrection was a fake.

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Refute Conspiracy
  • If the story were made up
  • the apostles are the greatest tellers of fish
    tails
  • of all time
  • Their sincerity is proved by their words and
    deeds.
  • They preached resurrection and they lived
    resurrection

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Refute Conspiracy
  • There is no motive for the lie
  • If it were a lie the Jews would have produced a
    corpse
  • The disciples could never have gotten away with
    the lie in Jerusalem surrounded by thousands of
    eyewitnesses
  • A conspiracy surely would have been unearthed by
    now.

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Refute Hallucination
  • There were too many witnesses.
  • Hallucinations are private, individual,
    subjective.
  • (1 Cor 153-8)
  • The witnesses were qualified. They were simple,
    honest, moral people who had firsthand knowledge
    of the facts.
  • Five hundred saw Christ together at the same
    place at the same time.
  • Hallucinations usually last seconds or minutes
    rarely hours this one lasted forty days.
  • Hallucinations usually happen once unless
    insanity is involved this one both repeated and
    changed over a prolonged period of time.

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Refute Hallucination
  • Hallucinations come from within, from what we
    know, our own subconscious, this one said and did
    the unexpected.
  • Even the disciples did not expect this or believe
    it at first
  • He had to eat to prove he wasnt a Spirit.
  • The disciples touched him
  • They spoke with him and he spoke back
  • The corpse was missing from the tomb.
  • The Jewish and Romans had every reason to produce
    the body and could not.
  • It took awhile for even Jesus close friends to
    recognize who he was. It was unbelievable to
    them as well.

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Refute HallucinationTodays Counterattacks
  • Modernists
  • dismiss the resurrection simply because it is
    miracle and they do not recognize miracles as
    possible
  • Liberal Theology
  • interprets the Gospels as myth
  • neither literally true nor literally false,
  • but spiritually or symbolically true.

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Refute Myth
  • The literary style of the gospels is drastically
    different from the style of all the myths.
  • No overblown, spectacular, childishly exaggerated
    events
  • Nothing is arbitrary
  • Everything fits in
  • Everything is meaningful
  • Psychological depth is at a maximum
  • Character depth and development of everyone in
    the Gospel is remarkable
  • It is written with an incredible economy of words
  • Telltale marks of eyewitness description

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Refute Myth
  • There was literally no time for the myth to
    develop.
  • Archeology has continually pushed back the date
    of origin for the Gospels
  • Pauls letters even earlier denote an established
    theology within the lifetimes of eyewitnesses
    less than thirty years.

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Refute Myth
  • All myth theories are two layered
  • First the historical Christ did not claim to be
    God at all, perform miracles or rise
  • Second The Gospels supply the second mythological
    layer with a Jesus who did all these things.
  • There exists no evidence of the first layer

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Refute Myth
  • The first witnesses of the resurrection were
    women
  • Low social status
  • No legal right to serve as witnesses
  • If your going to create a myth why not pick
    viable witnesses
  • Perhaps they just told the truth

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Refute Myth
  • 2 Peter 116
  • The New Testament can not be myth misinterpreted
    and confused with fact because it specifically
    distinguishes the two and repudiates the mythic
    interpretation.
  • Since it specifically says it is not myth it is
    either truth or lie

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The GospelsTraditional Textual ArgumentsProof
that the Gospels were written by eyewitnesses
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  • Internal evidence from the Gospels
  • The style of the writing is simple and alive
  • Luke was written before Acts, Acts was written
    prior to the death of Paul, Luke must have an
    early date which vouches for authenticity
  • The Gospels show intimate knowledge of Jerusalem
    prior to its destruction in 70 A.D.
  • Jesus prophecy of Jerusalems destruction must
    have been written prior to its fall otherwise the
    church would have edited out the apocalyptic
    element of the prophecy which makes it appear to
    concern the end of the world

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  • Internal evidence from the Gospels
  • The stories of Jesus human weaknesses and of the
    disciples faults bespeaks accuracy
  • The narratives are consistent and yet show no
    signs of attempts to harmonize them, apparent
    discrepancies are not suppressed which indicates
    their originality
  • They contain nothing out of sync chronologically
    with first-century Jews
  • THERE IS NO REASON TO DOUBT THAT THE GOSPELS COME
    FROM TRADITIONAL AUTHORS EXCEPT THAT THE GOSPELS
    CONTAIN SUPERNATURAL EVENTS

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  • External Evidence
  • The disciples must have left written evidence
    considering the distance over which they were
    communicating
  • Accurate narratives of Jesus history were
    necessary to refute attempts to discredit the
    genuine Gospel
  • There were many eyewitnesses still alive when the
    books were written

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  • External Evidence
  • The extra-biblical testimony unanimously
    attributes the Gospels to their traditional
    authors
  • No evidence of even inauthentic versions of the
    Gospels existed for the first century after
    Christs death
  • With a single exception (The Gospel of Thomas) no
    apocryphal gospel is ever quoted by any known
    author during the first 300 years after Christ

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The GospelsTraditional Textual ArgumentsProof
that the Gospels we have today are originals
  • The need for instruction and personal devotion
    gave rise to these documents being copied many
    times.
  • No other ancient work has this many copies
    available and all copies agree in content
  • The text has been transmitted over large
    geographical distance with no apparent heretical
    additions or content discrepancies
  • Quotations of the New Testament by early church
    fathers all coincide

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The GospelsTraditional Textual ArgumentsProof
that the Gospels we have today are originals
  • Corruption of the Gospel would have caused
    tremendous outcry from all orthodox Christians
  • No one could have corrupted all the manuscripts
  • The books are quoted continuously as early as the
    first century on. No time for falsification is
    available
  • New Testament text is every bit as good as every
    other accepted work of antiquity

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Todays Objections
  • History is not an exact science
  • You cant trust ancient documents
  • Because the resurrection is a miracle
  • Religion should be more spiritual, inward and
    ethical than having dead guys walking around
  • Why cant Christians see the profound symbolism
    in the idea of resurrection?

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RESURRECTION
  • By analogy with any other historical event, the
    resurrection has eminently credible evidence
    behind it.
  • To disbelieve it you must deliberately make an
    exception to the rules you use every place else
    in history.
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