#761 - Defending the "Martyrdom Argument" for the Resurrection

The Counsel of Trent

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🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode, Trent responds to critics like Paulogia and Candida Moss who critique the evidence for the Resurrection in the apostle's willingness to die for their faith in Christ.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:06.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, I'm your host, Cathergantz's
0:10.4	Apologist, Trent Horn, and a very common argument for the resurrection goes like this.
0:15.6	Jesus rose from the dead, and we know this because his disciples willingly submitted to torture
0:20.9	and martyrdom instead of recanting their belief in Jesus' resurrection. If they were just making
0:26.8	up the story of the resurrection, we'd expect them to admit that once it looked like they're
0:31.6	about to be killed. This argument is often summarized as who would die for a lie, or liars make poor
0:38.9	martyrs. While this is a common summary of the argument, I don't think it's the strongest version
0:45.4	of that argument, and so I'm going to examine a variety of objections to it, and in the process
0:51.0	modify the argument to make it more persuasive to make a case for the resurrection. But before I do
0:56.5	that, I hope I can persuade you to like this video and subscribe to our channel so we can continue
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1:05.9	the episode. Alright, so let's see what we can do with this argument. First, we need to get one
1:12.1	thing clear. This argument is not trying to prove by itself that Jesus' resurrection happened,
1:18.5	it shouldn't be used that way. It's not trying to prove the existence of anything supernatural.
1:24.3	Instead, this argument is part of a larger argument for the resurrection. The main evidence for
1:30.7	Jesus' resurrection is that people who were in a good place to know if Jesus rose from the dead
1:36.9	said that this happened. Now there's three options when it comes to this kind of testimony.
1:42.5	One, Jesus did rise from the dead, and the person claiming he did sincerely believes Jesus
1:48.8	rose from the dead, that be resurrection hypothesis. Two, Jesus did not rise from the dead,
1:55.1	and the person claiming he did does not sincerely believe Jesus rose from the dead, the fraud hypothesis.
2:03.0	And three, Jesus did not rise from the dead, and the person claiming Jesus did sincerely
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