Collucinations, hoaxes, all these different other possibilities, they suddenly become

really, really complicated. The explanation becomes complicated. Jesus rose from the dead and

people responded to that by worshipping him, by following him to the point of death. That suddenly

becomes a much simpler

one when we take the whole of the evidence into account.

Today I'm speaking with Timothy Paul Jones, Vice President for Doctoral Studies, Professor

of Christian Family Ministry, and Chair of the Department of Apologetics, Ethics, and Philosophy at the Southern

Baptist Theological Seminary. His new book is, did the resurrection really happen from Crossway?

Timothy, thanks so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.

That's great to be with you. So today I want to pose a number of questions or objections even that skeptics, people who aren't Christians,

might have related to the resurrection, this core doctrine of our faith, something that, as Paul

says, our faith would fall apart if it weren't for the resurrection. And I think it could be helpful,

not just for those who are having apologetic conversations with unbelievers, as many of us are, trying to explain and answer objections that they might have.

But I wonder if there might even be some Christians listening who, if they're honest with themselves, they might hear some of these objections and think, I don't actually know what I think about that.

I don't know how I would

answer that. That actually makes me a little bit nervous sometimes when it comes to the resurrection.

And so I wonder if we can play act this a little bit. How does that sound? That sounds great.

So first question for you would be, isn't it possible that the resurrection accounts that we read in the Bible

were just legends or myths that

Jesus' followers developed after his death, and that they actually are pretty similar to some of

the other myths of the ancient world, where there was this dying and rising again kind of God.

So I think of the myth of Osiris or Addis. Is the story of Jesus really any

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