EASTER WEEK WEDNESDAY: What Would You Say To Somebody Claiming Jesus’ Resurrection Was Borrowed From Pagan Myths?
Ever hear of a ship built so solidly that it was considered by its makers to be unsinkable, but then the vessel collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic ocean and sank? Bet you think I’m referring to the Titanic, right?
Brook McIntire of the Colson Center.
No, actually, I am referring to the 1898 sinking of the Titan following a collision with a North Atlantic iceberg, not the 1912 sinking of the Titanic for the same reason. Besides the 14 years between their sinkings, here’s the biggest difference between the Titan and the Titanic. The latter really happened, while the former was the plot of a novel that eerily presaged the later tragedy.
What has this to do with Easter Week and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after His crucifixion, death and burial? Well, for more than a century, the argument of some academic critics of the Bible has been the resurrection was not an actual event, but was instead borrowed by the Gospel authors from similar stories found in ancient pagan religions in order to make Jesus seem more like a god than was He really was.
That argument was long ago disproven, as the Colson Center’s Brook McIntire explains in the following “What Would You Say” series video, by evidence produced by other critical scholars as well as those who were believers.
McIntire quite effectively uses the Titanic/Titan example to illustrate one of the three reasons she suggests are appropriate responses to the claim that the Resurrection of Jesus was made up: