Welcome back to Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lane Craig.

We're looking at a YouTube video from an atheist who is criticizing

the Reasonable Faith animated video on the resurrection.

We'll pick it up where we left off last time and here's where we are in the reasonable faith video.

And some of these are among the earliest materials to be found in the New Testament.

If the earliest is most reliable, let's review the chart.

This first one doesn't mention a tomb. The second one doesn't mention a tomb.

The third one has a tomb but doesn't have Jesus

appear to anyone. These ones copied from Mark but then added in some supposed

appearances. By the time we get to this last one it has all kinds of appearances and miracles and divine attributes,

what scholars call a high Christiology.

This isn't early sources telling us about a resurrection.

This is a pattern of legend that is growing over time.

The fact that we are dealing here with multiple independent and extremely early sources

for the burial and empty tomb of Jesus shows that we are not

dealing here with legend and in this conclusion the majority of New Testament

historians have come to concur. Back in the 1930s and the 40s in the heyday of

positivism, many New Testament scholars did regard the empty tomb story as a late

legendary development and that view now has been decisively overthrown on the

basis of things like the discovery that Paul is quoting a

pre-Pauline formula that goes back to within the first five years of Jesus' death

the pre-mark and Passion story, which is an extremely early source.

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