The popular "Minimal Facts" approach to proving the resurrection of Jesus rests on outlining certain facts that the majority of scholars agree upon about the events surrounding Jesus' death. We should supposedly accept these facts because the majority of scholars agree on them. Then they say that if we accept these facts, we should therefore conclude that Jesus was resurrected.
But I doubt that Jesus' resurrection is something that the consensus of these same scholars would agree is fact. Therefore, if we should only accept what the consensus says, we should believe that Jesus didn't rise from the dead.
But I doubt that Jesus' resurrection is something that the consensus of these same scholars would agree is fact. Therefore, if we should only accept what the consensus says, we should believe that Jesus didn't rise from the dead.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
