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All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Do you really believe that Jesus rose from the dead? Perhaps, you have asked this question or maybe someone has challenged you with this question. Either way, it can be difficult to answer. In this episode, Dr. Sri shares many good reasons to believe in the resurrection and how we can respond to arguments against it.

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“If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:14).

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.

0:14.2

Do you Christians really believe Jesus rose from the dead?

0:17.8

I mean, historically, bodily, he really rose from the dead, like his body's not there in

0:21.8

the tomb on Easter Sundays.

0:23.8

Is that what you really believe?

0:24.8

I mean, those things don't happen.

0:26.8

I mean, science has never proven a resurrection before, and isn't this just maybe some legend

0:32.4

that was made up in the early church?

0:34.4

This is just a myth that was created by those early Christians, or maybe there was some

0:38.6

big conspiracy at the beginning, you know, those apostles, them to following Jesus around

0:42.4

for all those years, when they saw their master, their Lord be crucified and killed.

0:47.9

They were just all distraught and so sad and wondering, what could we do?

0:52.3

So they conspired together and say, let's go steal the body.

0:55.3

And then we'll tell everybody, he rose from the dead and then we could still be those

0:58.1

great leaders and still have a great job and have been really important in the world.

1:03.1

And maybe they just made it all up.

1:05.7

Do you really believe Jesus rose from the dead?

1:09.9

Now if you had someone ask you those questions, a friend, a family member, a coworker, how

1:16.2

would you respond?

1:17.9

Because we know the resurrection from the dead, Jesus' resurrection is at the very center

1:23.4

of our Catholic faith.

1:25.2

Many Catholics may not quite understand that there's good reasons for believing that

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