WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Did Christians Steal Jesus’ Resurrection Story From Pagan Myths?
There was a time during the 19th and into the early 20th centuries when scholars associated with the German School of Higher Criticism argued that Christians “borrowed” their claims about Jesus being resurrected from multiple pagan myths of heroes returning from the Dead.
Dawn on Easter morning. The rock has been rolled away and the tomb is empty.
Scholarship beginning in the late 20th and into the 21st century, however, has produced such an avalanche of evidence that Jesus actually was literally resurrected on the morning of the third day after His crucifixion. The evidence is now so overwhelmingly in favor of the Biblical account as accurate that the vast majority of scholars, skeptics and Christian alike, accept it.
But that doesn’t stop legions of Internet and social media based voices from turning to the long-discredited claim of the 19th Century Higher Critics today. Thus, as we approach Easter 2025, it’s appropriate that the latest edition of the Colson Center’s “What Would You Say” videos addresses the issue in a superb 4:24 production: