Did Jesus REALLY Rise from the Dead? TOP 4 Reasons to Believe with Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Dr. Frank Turek
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Do you believe the physical resurrection of Jesus really happened? Or maybe it's all just imaginative storytelling? Culture is doing its best to convince the world there is nothing special about Jesus. Meanwhile, Christianity's most important historical fact--the resurrection--is often the least studied and most misunderstood, creating a powerless faith.
Today on Good Friday, acclaimed apologist and New Testament scholar, Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston, joins Frank to show why Jesus' victory over death is central to a believer's faith while sharing insights from his book, 'Body of Proof'. Together they answer questions like:
- What two things have been at the forefront of Frank's mind since the murder of Charlie Kirk?
- Why is the bodily resurrection of Jesus essential to the Christian faith and what research has Jeremiah done on the topic?
- What is the current mood in scholarship about the bodily resurrection of Jesus?
- What happens when a society embraces Christianity?
- What did apostate Bible scholar Bart Ehrmann recently admit about Jesus?
- Do "bad" Christians nullify the truth of Christianity?
- What makes Jesus unique among 10 other failed Jewish "messiahs" from the first century?
- Why should we view the New Testament as historical documents?
- What is verisimilitude and how does it relate to the Gospels?
- What is one of the greatest archaeology discoveries related to Jesus?
The truth is ladies and gentlemen, one day everyone is going to be resurrected. The question is, where will you be resurrected to? The choice is yours! Stay tuned for next week's episode where Frank and Dr. Johnston examine the latest evidence for one of the most debated artifacts in history--the Shroud of Turin. Is it REALLY the burial cloth of Jesus, or the greatest hoax of all time?
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, I just got back from Utah Valley University. |
| 0:07.0 | That of course is where Charlie was murdered. |
| 0:10.0 | And you can see the entire presentation on our YouTube channel. |
| 0:15.0 | We've actually isolated the Q&A as well. |
| 0:17.0 | That's another video. |
| 0:19.0 | So if you want to see that, you can. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'll have some more to say about that. |
| 0:22.4 | Because I talked to several people who were there that day. In fact, I spoke to the first questioner |
| 0:30.0 | and the second questioner, the questioner who was at the microphone when Charlie was murdered, |
| 0:39.9 | as well as several other eyewitnesses. |
| 0:46.3 | So we will talk much more about that in the coming weeks and show you some video from that. |
| 0:54.0 | But I want to mention there were two things that have really come to the forefront since Charlie's murder in my own life, my own mind, and that is the existence |
| 0:55.9 | of evil, real evil, and number two, the importance of eternity. Those things, I mean, I think about |
| 1:04.4 | Charlie several times every day. The first thing I think about when I wake up is Charlie. The last |
| 1:08.6 | thing I think about when I go to bed is Charlie, understandably so. And evil and eternity are the two things that keep coming to my mind. And this |
| 1:17.0 | week especially, the most important week in Christianity, the most important week actually in |
| 1:22.3 | humanity is the passion week of Christ that culminates in his resurrection. And so I thought we would |
| 1:29.9 | talk about that this week with a friend of mine who is a great scholar in this area and has |
| 1:36.4 | devoted his life pretty much to the resurrection. He's written over 300,000 words on this topic |
| 1:43.6 | alone. And he's got new evidence that we're going to talk about. |
| 1:47.2 | Not only today, but in the podcast coming up on Tuesday, you're not going to want to miss. |
| 1:51.6 | And, of course, I'm talking about the great Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston, ladies and gentlemen, all the way, all the way from Dallas, Texas. |
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