Evidences for the Resurrection
All four of the New Testament gospels report that, when the women who were the first to visit the tomb of Jesus on the third day following His death and burial, arrived there, they found it empty and wide open. When John and Peter subsequently ran to the tomb, they also found it empty. So…
Did the earliest Christians — those around in the days and weeks immediately following His death, burial and resurrection — understand who He claimed to be or did it take decades before the full truth of His divinity as the Son of God and full humanity as the Son of Man was understood and proclaimed,…
Simon Greenleaf was an acclaimed professor of the Harvard Law School and the author of the authoritative standards for determining the credibility and admissibility of witnesses and evidence in the American court system. While there is some dispute on the question, it appears that Greenleaf set out at one point early in his life to…
Jesus Christ is the most famous person who ever lived. Two millennia after He walked in Judea and Galilee, billions of people worship Him as the Son of God. More books have been written about Him than any other person in history. His words are studied in virtually every country on the face of the…
So you are in a conversation with somebody when the discussion heads in a spiritual direction. You mention that you are a follower of Jesus Christ who you know to be God because He was resurrected from the tomb three days after His crucifixion. Just as He said He would be. But your conversation partner…
Besides the resurrection itself, one of the most challenging aspects of Christianity for critics is explaining the conversion of the Apostle Paul, who claimed to have encountered the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus. But what if Paul suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Contrary to Paulogia, there is no credible evidence Paul had…
J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity was not born into a family of Christians. He didn’t go to a Christian school, either as a child, a teen or as a young adult. When he joined the Los Angeles Police Department, Jesus was nowhere on his life’s radar screen. Wallace was, quite simply, a professing atheist.…
Much was made early in the 21st century of the “Swoon Theory” that Jesus somehow survived being flogged by Roman soldiers, forced to carry a heavy cross half a mile and then being nailed to that cross and finally stabbed upward into the chest with a spear. Don’t be surprised to hear variants on the…
We hear about “diversity” frequently in the public forums these days, but rarely is that quality of people and things considered in the context of historic events such as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But, as J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity notes, there are seven diverse factors in the resurrection — let us refer…
Put aside everything else you’ve ever heard or thought about Jesus Christ, then ask yourself what is one fact that, no matter what it is, would absolutely decide the question of whether or not He is God? But remember this: For your thinking to be as clear and logical as possible, don’t allow yourself to…