#166 Do we Have Actual Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus? With Gary Habermas
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Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Christianity stands or falls based on the resurrection of Jesus being a real event in history. The Apostle Paul said that if Christ has not been raised, our faith is in vain. But 2,000 years later, do we have actual evidence for this event or is it something Christians simply have to take on faith? Historian and New Testament scholar Dr. Gary Habermas is considered one of the foremost scholars on the resurrection of Jesus and he joins me to talk about the facts surrounding the resurrection that virtually all scholars, from the most liberal to the most conservative, agree on. He shares his “minimal facts” approach, and gives every Christian practical ways to share this evidence with their friends.
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| 0:00.0 | In a time when the best sources for Buddha, according to one Buddhist scholar, 600, 800 years later, |
| 0:06.2 | best theology of Zoroaster's a thousand years later, there are no good sources for the Hindu sources. |
| 0:12.3 | The earliest Bhagavagita is 4,200 years after Krishna may have lived. |
| 0:17.1 | The sources in these other religions are very poor. |
| 0:20.9 | But when you have creeds, creedal reports from two to three years afterwards in that window from 30 to 33, this is probably the strongest evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the claims of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth. |
| 1:09.2 | You know, the Christian worldview stands or falls based on the resurrection of Jesus being a real event in history. |
| 1:12.6 | But the question is, do we have actual evidence for this event, or is this just something that we have to take on faith? After all, if Jesus was not raised |
| 1:18.4 | from the dead, then the claims that he made about himself come to nothing. He would be nothing more |
| 1:23.6 | than the other people who came along claiming to be the Jewish Messiah and then were lost to |
| 1:28.8 | history after their death. |
| 1:30.0 | But today, we're going to look at some powerful evidence for the resurrection of Jesus with an |
| 1:34.8 | expert guest who has dedicated his life to studying the resurrection. |
| 1:39.6 | Dr. Gary Habermas is a New Testament scholar and historian. |
| 1:43.0 | He's the distinguished research professor |
| 1:45.3 | at Liberty University and teaches full-time in the Seminary PhD program. He's written several |
| 1:52.1 | books, including the case for the resurrection of Jesus. That was a co-write there with Mike |
| 1:57.0 | Lekona. And he's currently, I believe, working on his magnum opus, which we're going to ask him about. |
| 2:03.1 | But Dr. Habermas, it's such a thrill to have you on the show. |
| 2:06.2 | Tell us about what you're working on, this big project, and when will it be out? |
| 2:10.9 | Oh, everybody, I get a lot of emails and people say, I can't wait for this thing. And I'm, |
| 2:18.2 | and I say back to them, I go, what do you think about me? I can't wait for it to come out. |
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