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All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

Resurrection: Hoax or History?

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Can a serious thinker in the 21st century really believe in the resurrection of Jesus? When people die, they stay dead. How can Christians claim Jesus was different? The resurrection of Christ seems like a fairy tale—a Christian myth, invented by the apostles.

That’s what many people in our secular age might think about Easter. How would you respond? Gain the clarity and confidence to explain our belief in the resurrection to others in this week’s episode.

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0:00.0

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

0:18.1

Hallelujah, he is risen. It is Easter week as we celebrate this week as Christians, but you know many people in our secular age are just going on minding their own business.

0:27.5

This was just any other weekend for them.

0:30.0

And if they've heard about the idea of Christians believing in the resurrected Christ,

0:34.6

many of them kind of just go, well that that's fine if you Christians want to believe that, but come on really.

0:40.0

I mean, somebody was crucified and put in a tomb and he rose from the dead.

0:45.4

You really believe that, you Christians, how can any serious thinker in the 21st century

0:51.0

believe in the idea of resurrection.

0:53.5

You know, that just doesn't happen.

0:55.7

When people die, they stay dead.

0:57.5

They don't come up from the grave.

0:59.8

This sounds like some fairy tale or some myth.

1:02.6

Yeah, that's what this is.

1:03.5

This is just Christian legend, Christian myth.

1:06.3

We can't trust the gospel accounts.

1:08.6

Are you kidding me?

1:09.3

I mean, those stories were written

1:11.1

by just men who were diluted or they fabricated these stories

1:14.6

they're just trying to convince us in this resurrection idea but we know it

1:18.9

couldn't have happened that way that's how many people would be viewing the Christian belief in the

1:24.4

resurrection of Jesus. I want to equip you though. I want to walk through some very

1:28.4

important points that could help us have greater confidence not only in the resurrection itself for our own lives,

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