Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of Christ, Part 46.

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Today we want to bring to a close our study of the resurrection of Jesus.

We've seen that the resurrection of Jesus.

We've seen that the resurrection hypothesis that God raised Jesus from the dead provides

the best explanation for the facts of the empty tomb, the postmortem appearances of Jesus,

and the origin of the disciples' faith in his resurrection.

Now, before we look at some application of this truth to our lives, I want to say a couple of

words about sharing this material with other persons. Obviously, you can't be expected to memorize all of the

subpoints and the details that we've been through in this class. But I do think that at

least each of you should be able to explain to someone the two stages of giving a historical argument for Jesus' resurrection.

The first stage is assembling the facts to be explained, what is the evidence,

and then the second stage is asking, what is the best explanation of those facts? And when it comes to the facts to be

explained, I think each of us should have memorized that these are the facts of the discovery

of the empty tomb, the postmortem appearances to various individuals and groups, and then the very

origin of the disciples' belief in Jesus'

resurrection. If you know those three facts, then that summarizes well the evidence

for the resurrection of Jesus. Now, I want to clarify, because there's been some misunderstanding

on this head, that this is not to advocate

what has been called a minimal facts approach to the evidence for the resurrection.

The minimal facts approach to the resurrection is something championed by Gary Habermass,

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