The Resurrection?
Lately I’ve been watching and reading about the debate surrounding the resurrection of Jesus and the historicity of such an account. This reminded me of a brief dialogue Tony Jones presented at the beginning of The New Christians. The argument was meant to show the deficiency of foundationalism, however, it concerns something that is brought up more often than not in popularized ‘resurrection dialogue’. I’m going to modify the dialogue somewhat and then go from there. Thus, beginning with Tony Jones modified dialogue:
“I believe the resurrection account because of Biblical testimony.”
“Well, how do you know the Bible is true and accurate?
“I believe what the Bible says on the resurrection because the Apostles were martyred for their belief, and people don’t knowingly die for a lie.”
“What about the 9/11 terrorists?”
“They were deceived. They didn’t know they were dying for a lie. The apostles had … (Read more)
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