Tag: resurrection

Christ dying for our sins is a great piece of information once we believe that he died and rose again, but it is not worth debating about.

There is little point in setting this argument up for success. There are some merits for the empty tomb, which are independent of the women witnesses, but when one considered the overall evidence against the empty tomb story it becomes a futile endeavor.

It seems weird to me that in order to promote virtue and good character I must weaken the historical argument for the resurrection, and that to promote the historical argument for the resurrection I must weaken my devotion to virtue and good character.

The criteria of embarrassment is important. Every Christian should take it seriously, and so should every historian.

A story of a few women coming upon an empty tomb may not be that exciting. Normally we might think that all they have done is discovered a grave robbery, or a mistaken burial plot.

Most people accept that at some point soon after the death of Jesus people began having experiences that are genuinely preserved in memory as being resurrection experiences.

I intend to make my final argument for the virtue of the spiritual resurrection by addressing this common sense approach to the resurrection.