#183 Do You Have to Believe in the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus to be a Christian? with Jeremiah Johnston
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The resurrection of Jesus is one of the bedrock beliefs of Christianity, but does one have to believe that Jesus' resurrection was physical in order to be saved? Dr. Jeremiah Johnston returns to the podcast to discuss the evidence for the bodily resurrection. He also shares a brand new argument for the resurrection that will be published in his brand new book, Body of Proof: The 7 Best Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus - and Why It Matters Today
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core claims |
| 0:13.3 | of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, |
| 0:18.6 | and truth. |
| 0:19.6 | And I'm so excited for you to get to hear the conversation that I had with Jeremiah |
| 0:23.0 | Johnston about the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. |
| 0:26.8 | I think every Christian should be able to make a case for the resurrection of Jesus, |
| 0:31.5 | whether you're an intellectual or not, whether you're into apologetics or not. |
| 0:35.8 | And so if you don't think you can really do that, and even if you think you can, this |
| 0:40.3 | is a great episode for you because Jeremiah walked us through different arguments for |
| 0:45.8 | the resurrection, and even is bringing to us through his new book that's about to come |
| 0:50.1 | out, a brand new argument for the resurrection of Jesus. |
| 0:53.6 | It's just a really powerful way to do pre-evangelism. |
| 0:56.7 | If you want to share the gospel with people that might have intellectual obstacles in |
| 1:00.7 | front of the gospel, maybe saying like, you know, miracles can't happen, dead people |
| 1:04.3 | don't come back to life. |
| 1:05.7 | How could you possibly even know that a dead guy was raised back to life in the first century? |
| 1:10.3 | So definitely, there's lots of rich, great stuff in this episode. |
| 1:13.9 | So I'm so excited to bring that to you. |
| 1:16.5 | My favorite part of this conversation was when I asked Jeremiah a point of blank, can you |
| 1:20.8 | be a Christian and not believe that Jesus was bodily, physically raised from the dead? |
| 1:27.5 | And his answer might surprise you. |
| 1:28.7 | So stay tuned for that. |
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