Evidences for the Resurrection
Dr. Gary Habermas, an historian and philosopher at Liberty University, has devoted his career to studying the evidence for the literal truth of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the arguments presented by the most intelligent skeptics. In the following 6:22 video with “Capturing Christianity” host Cameron Bertuzzi, Habermas concisely describes six reasons for accepting…
In each of the four Gospels, women are the first people to encounter the empty tomb and the resurrected Jesus Christ. That may not seem like a significant fact, but in reality, it is a crucially important detail that points to the credibility of Christianity. Check out the following 1:09 video in which I discuss…
There is no doubt that the single most important claim of Christianity — whether you are a follower, a skeptic or apathetic about it all — is that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead three days after His death on the cross, thereby providing convincing proof of His claim to be God-made-flesh. According to…
Skeptics of Jesus’ Resurrection often point to the variations in the four Gospels regarding who were the first of His followers to arrive at the tomb to discover that it was empty on the first Easter morning. Six different women are mentioned in the four Gospels as being among the first to arrive at the…
There are mountains of evidence — historical, scientific, medical, archeological, literary, logical, philosophical and more — that point to Jesus Christ as God, Creator and Sustainer of the universe. As the Gospel of John puts it in the first five verses of its opening chapter: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was…
Among the most well-known popular arguments in favor of the divinity of Jesus Christ was first proposed by the great C.S. Lewis in his book, “Mere Christianity,” when he offered this syllogistic claim: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept…
There are a thousand ways to approach a conversation about Jesus Christ, but in the final analysis, it all comes down to one crucial question — Why was His grave empty on the third day after His crucifixion and burial? The answer of the Gospels is, of course, that, just as He predicted before the…
It is a commonly heard argument from skeptics of Christianity who claim the Resurrection of Jesus never really happened because there was a conspiracy among the disciples to fake it. The disciples knew, the skeptics contend, that Jesus had predicted He would be resurrected from the grave three days after dying on the cross, but…
Among the most common arguments from skeptics is that the claim Jesus was resurrected on the third day after the crucifixion and burial was a “later invention,” or a legend that grew over the decades following His death. If you ever played “Telephone” as a kid, you can easily understand how such assertions can sound…
Skeptics have proposed over the years three basic alternative explanations for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, including the Swoon Theory, the Hallucination Theory and the Wrong-Tomb Theory. Here’s the basic issue underlying the debate about the Resurrection: If Jesus was resurrected on the third day following His crucifixion and burial in the rich man’s tomb,…