Examining Historical Evidence for the Resurrection | with Mike Licona
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Dr. Frank Turek
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Do Christians have good historical reasons to put our faith in the resurrection of Jesus? Can we really know what happened 2,000 years ago? No one doubts the works of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar or the history written about them, so what makes the historicity of Jesus so special? And what do non-Christian scholars say about the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus?
If anyone knows the answers to these questions, it's New Testament scholar Dr. Michael Licona! His seminal work, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach, has been praised by many as the most thorough and useful tool to those looking for an in-depth study of the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. Mike currently serves as Associate Professor in Theology at Houston Christian University and president of Risen Jesus, Inc. In this special midweek episode of 'I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist,' he sits down with Frank to discuss the following topics as they relate to Jesus and the resurrection:
problems with postmodernist history
the uncertainty of historical knowledge
what is a historical fact?
the tools and rules of historical research
how our worldview affects how we study history
objections to the resurrection of Jesus
the intersecting philosophies of science, history, and theology
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Mike's seminal work: https://a.co/d/iPv6CN6
Mike at Houston Christian University: http://bit.ly/3OPAKdT
Mike's website: https://www.risenjesus.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Does truth exist? |
| 0:03.3 | Because you have faith, does that make this book cool? |
| 0:05.6 | Does God exist? |
| 0:07.4 | So when someone says there is no truth, |
| 0:09.8 | if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say? |
| 0:12.6 | Is that true? |
| 0:15.2 | They don't think Christianity is true. |
| 0:17.7 | They're talked out of it. |
| 0:20.0 | You know why they're talked out of it? |
| 0:22.0 | Because they've never been talked into it. |
| 0:24.2 | Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek. |
| 0:32.8 | The resurrection of Jesus, ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:36.2 | that was the title of Dr. Michael Cona's 2010 Seminole work. |
| 0:41.2 | And we have the great Dr. Michael Cona with us. |
| 0:43.6 | We're going to talk about the resurrection |
| 0:45.6 | and maybe some alternative theories about it. |
| 0:49.0 | What are scholars who might not even be Christians say |
| 0:52.4 | about the evidence? |
| 0:53.8 | Mike, always great being with you. |
| 0:55.0 | How are you? |
| 0:55.8 | Thank you, Dr. Turek. |
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