Welcome back to Seamus Poupery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I want to wish you a joyous, joyish.

Welcome back to Seamus Poupery. I'm Joe Heshmeier, and I want to wish you a joyous Easter as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Why is it that Christians are convinced that Jesus really did rise from the dead? Do we just blindly believe it?

Because this book full of neat stories told us so?

Or can we use evidence and reason to conclude that the resurrection really did happen?

To make that case, I want to turn to who else?

The atheist Alex O'Connor.

In an interview he gave last year, O'Connor looks at all the major arguments against resurrection

and shows really one by

one why they don't work. And he does admirable steel manning of the Christian case in the process.

Now, he's going to leave a couple of doors for atheism half open. And I'll explain later in the

video why those don't work either and why the only plausible explanation for the historical evidence is that, unlikely as it may sound,

Jesus really did rise from the debt.

But first, I want you to take a moment. I want you to try to come up with every plausible argument that you can for Jesus not rising from the debt.

Do that, and by the end of the video, let's see if any of those arguments are left standing.

Now, while you're doing that, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude for all of you who support this channel over at shamelessjo.com.

It's been amazing interacting with all of you, walking with you throughout Lent, and I'm

excited for the new phase of the Patreon as I'm doing two live stream Q&A hours each week.

It's a great way of supporting the show and hopefully you're enjoying the extra hours of content.

All right, so let's run through the major arguments that you might make against Jesus rising from the dead.

They generally fall into three major categories.

Jesus didn't really die on the cross.

...