201: James Robinson – He is not here, He is Risen

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following week.

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For this class.
I’ve chosen a talk by James

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Robinson, this class made a
fairly significant impact on me

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several years ago and I really
wanted to share it with

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everyone.
This talk gets back to the

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basics and tries to prove the
death but more importantly the

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resurrection of Jesus a backbone
of our faith.

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So now, we’ll turn it over to
James.

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Good evening, brothers and
sisters.

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I’m glad to see you all here
tonight because our subject

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tonight is he is not here.
He has risen.

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And hopefully it’ll be a very
interesting subject for you.

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All I greatly enjoyed
researching it, the subject for

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tonight officially is he is not
here.

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He has risen, that’ll probably
be the subject on whatever board

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we have outside.
If we have a board outside at

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the moment, if we don’t, that’s
the official title.

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But what you’re going to be
here, Tonight is more simply

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stated as proof that Jesus
Christ rose from the dead.

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What I’m going to try and do in
this talk is go through and get

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evidence for why we can believe
that.

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Jesus Christ, honestly did rise
from the dead and the start off.

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I’ll explain why this is
important because Jesus Christ

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rising from the dead is the
foundation of Christianity.

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You’ll notice I have a quote up
there.

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First Corinthians 15, this is
from the Apostle Paul.

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All a Christian writing to other
Christians and he says, if

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Christ has not been raised, our
preaching is useless and so is

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your faith, obviously Paul
thought the resurrection was

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pretty important that quote, by
the way, is from The New

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International Version.
All quotations tonight on my

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slides and that I will be
reading our from The New

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International Version for the
simple reason that it’s very

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easy to understand and tonight I
want to make sure that what I’m

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saying is easy to understand
because it should be Easy to

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understand that we have a firm
and good reason to believe that

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Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
Now, as for why this is

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important, Jesus Christ himself,
claimed that he rose from the

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dead.
The reference I have up there.

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Matthew 17, 22 to 23 is pretty
much the same as what we already

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read earlier in Luke 24, Jesus
claimed that he was going to be

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betrayed and killed and Rise.
Again, the third day, this is

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what he said.
If Jesus said this, and it

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didn’t happen, then he is a
liar.

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And therefore, it is hugely
important whether or not He rose

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from the dead identically, his
disciples afterwards, all

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claimed that he rose from the
dead Acts 2 and 32 it’s only one

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reference among many in the New
Testament all claiming the same

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thing that Jesus rose from the
day.

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If he didn’t rise from the dead,
then all his disciples are liars

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to and the entire Christian
faith is founded on a lie.

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If that is the case, then I
might as well not be speaking up

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here.
That’s why our subject tonight.

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Is that the resurrection He did
actually happen because if it

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didn’t actually happen, none of
us needs to be here tonight.

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Finally, there’s one other
important Point.

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Christianity has a lot of things
that are important to it and

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tonight I’m not going to talk
about everything that

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Christianity deals with.
Well one thing that you have to

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understand is Christianity is
based on Jesus Christ as a

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living, savior, if Jesus Christ
is dead in a tomb right now or

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moldering in the ground
someplace, then Christianity is

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useless because Does not have a
savior.

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It’s savior is dead and there is
no.

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Hope you can put in somebody who
is dead.

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But tonight we’re going to get
into if he was resurrected and

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if he was resurrected, that
means some things as well.

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First of all, it means that when
Jesus made the claim that he was

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going to die and be resurrected
and it actually happened.

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That’s pretty astounding.
You can go talk to any

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Undertaker and they will not
tell you that their corpses that

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they’re dealing with rise from
the dead.

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This is not a common occurrence,
this is something we call a

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miracle.
And if he is able to accurately

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predict a miraculous occurrence,
then we might want to believe

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the other things that he said,
identical case for his disciples

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if they’re all saying, something
totally astounding happen and it

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actually did happen.
Then we might have reason to

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believe the other things they
say.

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And they said some other pretty
fascinating things, one of them

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is quoted on the screen there
for the son of man is going to

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come in his father’s Glory with
his angels and then he Reward

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each person according to what he
has done.

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That’s a pretty scary prediction
that Christ is going to come and

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judge the world.
And so if they were right about

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that, maybe we need to lend some
Credence to the other things

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they said and that’s going to be
a scary proposition.

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So again our subject is
important did Jesus rise from

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the dead or didn’t?
That’s what I’m going to try and

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prove to you tonight.
Now proof is an interesting

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thing, how do we prove
something?

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Especially something quite so
amazing as a person rising from

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the dead.
It is not hard to prove to you

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tonight that gravity exists
here.

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I have a book, I drop the book
if falls down that has proven to

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you that gravity exists.
But proving a resurrection from

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the dead.
It’s not quite so easy because

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dead people do not normally come
back to life books.

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Normally fall when we drop them
dead, people do not normally

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come back to life.
It’s called a And to prove a

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miracle is difficult, in fact,
on someone back in the 1700s

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called David Hume, who was an
atheist, wrote a whole book on

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the subject and one of the
things he said, which I thought

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was quite wise, was that no
testimony is sufficient to

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establish a miracle unless the
testimony of you have such kind

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that it’s falsehood, would be
more miraculous than the fact,

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which it Endeavors to establish.
In other words, if we want to

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believe that something.
Thing happened which seems

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totally impossible.
That the only way we can do that

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reasonably, is to believe that
it would be totally impossible

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for it not to happen.
In other words, if we can

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discount everything else and say
that couldn’t have happened then

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we might believe in a miracle.
Otherwise why would you believe

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that someone Rose from the day?
It doesn’t normally happen.

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It’s not a recurring fact, we
can’t go and make someone else

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rise from the dead.
So if we Prove that we need to

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prove it by showing that nothing
else works.

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And so tonight I’m going to make
two claims I’m going to claim

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first of all, that it is a
reasonable proposition that the

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Jesus Christ was resurrected
from the day that this is a

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reasonable explanation of the
facts.

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And secondly, I am going to
claim that there is no other

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reasonable explanation of the
facts.

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You’ll notice extensive use of
the word reasonable in that.

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The reason for that is that That
in a court of law.

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When we’re trying to convict
someone in a criminal court, the

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burden of proof that Slade on
the prosecution is that they

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have to prove.
He is guilty of beyond all

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Reasonable Doubt.
Obviously, there are some people

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tonight who are going to be able
to doubt me, no matter what I

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say.
But I want to be able to prove

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to you beyond all reasonable
doubt that Jesus Christ, rose

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from the dead.
And that’s what we’re working on

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tonight.
We’re not dealing with are

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reasonable facts.
We’re dealing with reasonable

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facts that you should be able to
reasonably Understand.

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So let’s start off with some
documentary evidence.

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We read Luke 24 tonight which is
a documentary account that

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claims that Jesus Christ rose
from the dead.

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Here is a few other ones.
In fact in the Bible we have

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four different accounts that all
claim.

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The same thing that Jesus Christ
is risen from the dead.

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You see short excerpts from the
mall up on the slide tonight.

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I’m not going to go through and
read each one but they all say

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about the same thing and I asked
you if you don’t believe me to

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read it because they all say
about the same thing that this

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man rose from the dead.
And the interesting thing about

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this is it’s not a single
witness.

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We have four different
Witnesses, two of them.

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Matthew and John were
eyewitnesses of these events.

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Mark was not an eyewitness.
He was writing based on the

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testimony of another eyewitness
which was Peter and Luke does

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not claim via night witness.
His was a compilation but all

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These people were writing at
about the same time and all

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claim that this happened, that
should give us an inkling that

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maybe something happened.
It doesn’t prove that it did

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happen because we’re not going
to look at these people tonight

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as inspired by God.
That’s the position of the

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christadelphians.
But if their writings inspired

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by God, I might as well, not be
talking tonight, anyway, because

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the case is already proven.
If it’s inspired then we believe

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it in.
That’s it.

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We’re not going to do that
tonight.

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I’m going to assume that these
are historical documents, but

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I’m not going to say Assume that
they’re inspired by God, because

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if they’re inspired by God we
have a circular argument.

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And my case is already over,
we’re going to assume though

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that they are historical
testimony and we have good

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reason to assume that.
Well there’s more documentary

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evidence.
We’re going to skip that for

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right now though we’re going to
let us look at the veracity of

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these documents.
First of all, when were they re

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if Mark had written his gospel?
500 years.

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After the events happened, we
might have reason to doubt him,

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but that’s not the case.
You see up here, what I found as

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scholarly opinion by those
Scholars, who actually have

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reason to believe that these
authors were not lying, if you

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believe that the authors were
lying, you get a bunch of dates

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after 80 70.
But based on what they actually

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wrote, the dates are usually in
this range 80/50, 27, which puts

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you at most 40 years after the
events in cave question, You’re

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not accounts by people long
after the events are past.

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These are people who claim to be
island us’, and wrote a time

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period where they could be
eyewitnesses.

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Secondly, it’s often a question
of who actually wrote These

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gospels.
However, based on my research

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again tonight, I’m not going to
give you a documentary, go over

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of everything to do with textual
analysis of the gospels.

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What I will say, though, if the
authorship was not questioned

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for any of these for the next
500 years, Years.

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And so everyone in those time
periods and we have lots of

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documents says, Mark, wrote
Mark, Matthew wrote, Matthew,

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John wrote, John, and if so we
had good reason to believe that

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that’s the case.
These people wrote those books

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and honestly, believed what they
wrote, we have these books,

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that’s what they say.
And just as a bit of comparison

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Duke, can we trust these books
written 2000 years ago, actually

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got to us in a reasonable
condition.

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So Up here we have a brief
comparison of the textual

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attestation of the New Testament
versus some other contemporary

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documents.
For example, we’ve got Julius

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Caesar, you might have heard of
him.

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He was a Roman general who wrote
some rather long accounts, in

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Latin about his conquest of the
gaulish nation.

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And these have been used as
basic Latin texts.

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If you’re taking Latin for a
long time, The written up in the

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history books.
However, as for manuscripts we

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only actually have 10 different
manuscripts, ancient

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manuscripts, and not like modern
copies of these events and the

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new like the oldest one.
As in the closest When It Was

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Written, is it Thousand Years
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afterwards.
We’re saying that it was copied

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and recopied and we copied and
the newest copy.

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We have is a thousand years
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So It’s been lots of time for
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trust that Caesar conquered the
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We have a bunch of other authors
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The last one you’ll notice is
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is for the New Testament, it’s
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Just how much evidence we have
that.

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The New Testament was written
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have to go through it.
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this is a textual Lee accurate
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written.
You’ll notice that the Of

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manuscripts.
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magnitude higher than the
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closest contemporary document,
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also notice that the time span
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We have a fragment from the
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to what we currently have.
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that data to 8125, or give or
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written.
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you have to go to about.
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that totally beats Homer’s.
The Iliad in how close we have a

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copy to when it was originally
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been well preserved.
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to read you, that was from the
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I read on a text to authenticity
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And it’s like this simply put.
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Of the New Testament on textual
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We’d have to reject every
ancient worked event equity and

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declare, null and void.
Every piece of historical

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information from written sources
prior to the beginning of the

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second Millennium 80.
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the New Testament because we
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throw out a whole lot of other
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is on much better grounds than
most of our knowledge of the

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ancient world.
These are not documents that you

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can discount simply because
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Second, we have a lot of old
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We have a lot of new documents
that people don’t believe

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because they’re not believable.
We have fairy tales of say

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Rapunzel, nobody, no scholar
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believes that Rapunzel was an
actual person with eight foot

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hair that had a prince climb up.
There’s a question of are these

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were liable documents And for
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the document.
There have been some excellent

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books written on this.
The one I’d like to point out to

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you, is this one by Frank
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stone?
The introduction of that book is

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definitely worth reading because
he starts off talking about how

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he intended to write a book to
discover, who the real Jesus was

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after sifting through all the
evidence and finding out where

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there was just the made up stuff
and where the real Jesus shown

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Through any.
So we are going to read through

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the Book of Mark.
Look through the last seven days

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of Jesus life and find out what
was true and what wasn’t true

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and he intended to prove that
Jesus did not actually rise from

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the dead.
He ended up becoming a Christian

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and his book who moved the stone
is not a proof that Jesus did

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not rise from the dead, but a
proof that he did rise from the

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dead.
Now, Frank Morrison was a lawyer

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who did this and he didn’t know
about it at the time he was

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writing who Moved Stone but
going through and examining the

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evidence of each of the
different Witnesses and cross

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examining them.
And looking at it from a legal

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perspective was not new.
In fact, Simon Greenlee a

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professor from a little-known
university in the It’s called

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Harvard.
I had done it a little bit

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earlier, back in the 1700s.
It’s called the testimony of the

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evangelists and it did the same
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It went through each of the
different gospels and use the

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principles of law to go through
and figure out were these

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testimonies accurate?
Did it have a case now?

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I’m not a lawyer.
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So if you want to truly get a
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things, So you’re going to have
to read those books but they’re

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worth looking at and I found
them very convincing.

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As well.
There’s a whole lot of things in

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the record itself that are
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I’m only going to pull out some
of them because I don’t have all

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night tonight.
But this is one that I found

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particularly interesting in the
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But when they came to Jesus and
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they did not break his legs.
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pierced Jesus side with a spear
bringing, a sudden flow of blood

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and water.
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Its recorded because it’s weird
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outcomes, both blood and water.
This is not a normal event, but

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that’s the sort of thing that
makes it seem that if it

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actually truly happened, it
would mean that this witness was

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telling the truth.
So once upon a time, back in

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about the 1700s again, there was
a physiologist at the University

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of Dublin who decided to run
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So key and he was also a
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So we’ve seen a lot with humans.
So what he did was, he pierced,

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lots of left signs with large
knives comparable in size with

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the Romans fear, and he found
that there were five distinct

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cases that could happen.
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flow with nothing if he got
nothing at all except some

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slight trickling up blood.
So then lie, sometimes he got a

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whole lot of blood and then
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Sometimes though he got a flow
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blood.
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he could tell based on what
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This is going to use some
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of these three cases.
The first is that what usually

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occurs as in on a normal death?
You get just a small trickle of

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blood.
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death by drowning and by strict
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destroying an animal with that
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be the natural case of a
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The third is found in cases of
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and rupture of the heart.
I’m not a doctor.

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He’s a doctor, you can have to
depend on him or look up these

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terms to find out exactly what
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His point though is that these,
he came up with two following

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cases that aren’t normal.
These two cup following cases

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were a copious flow of water.
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blood or a copious flow of blood
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water.
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only occur in a crucified person
who had previously separate from

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pleuritic effusion, or from a
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upon the cross from rupture of
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In other words, this is a very
rare condition.

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That’s not going to happen.
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your heart first and that’s what
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Which is really interesting.
It’s a strong case.

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That what he saw was something
that actually happened.

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That this is an eyewitness who
saw a very novel circumstance

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that he wrote down to.
The next verse is him going, I

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actually do believe this and
this is what I saw and he wrote

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it down and now we can look at
it and go, this is the only case

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where it would happen.
He saw something amazing and it

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happened and we can look at it
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Approach that’s cool.
It doesn’t prove it but it’s a

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very strong Mark of internal
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That these are eyewitnesses who
are watching what was happening

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and telling us, there’s another
very strong point though and

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that is the empty too.
The quotes up on the screen are

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kind of long, but they basically
explain what the Tomb of Jesus

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was like.
It had a large Stone in front of

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it and it was sealed by the
Romans and it had a garden front

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of it.
This is all a time when the body

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was assumed to be there.
But then we read in the record

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that the body was not found in
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In fact, the body was not found
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This is an amazing thing.
Usually bodies don’t disappear

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in a criminal investigation.
In fact, a large portion of time

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is spent looking for the body
because if you can’t find a

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body, it’s hard to establish
whether or not the person

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actually died.
And bodies don’t usually just

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disappear.
But that seems to have been the

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case here, because even the very
enemies who did not believe that

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Jesus was resurrected claimed
that the body wasn’t there.

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You’ll notice in that quote,
when the chief priests had met

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with the elders and devised a
plan, they gave the soldiers.

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Those are the ones who are
guarding the tomb, a large sum

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of my many telling them, you
already say his disciples came

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during the night and stole him
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What that means is that the very
people who did not believe in

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the resurrection, could not
explain where the body had gone,

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they had to lie and say that the
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In other words, there was nobody
that they could find that is

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very strong evidence that Jesus
was resurrected from the dead

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because if he was resurrected,
then there would be no dead body

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to find.
But if he was not resurrected,

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then you would expect to find a
body somewhere.

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You would not expect an empty
too.

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And you’ll notice that
throughout the record

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afterwards, there is no
production of the body of Jesus.

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There was no attempt to say that
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When they’re persecuting the
disciples afterwards, they put

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them in jail.
They get mad at them, but they

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don’t say, here’s the body of
Jesus.

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See, he’s dead, he’s dead.
They can’t do that because they

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don’t have a body of Jesus to
produce.

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They had to say that.
The disciples had stolen him

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because they couldn’t find this
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That’s powerful.
Finally, the reason I’m saying

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this today is because I am a
Christian.

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I am Christian in a religion
that is based on Jesus Christ.

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And Christianity is currently a
religion of 1.5 to 2 point 1

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billion people nowadays, that
means it had to come from

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somewhere.
In fact, it was established as

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the official religion of the
Roman Empire 380 ad, And it

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emerged just about the time that
Jesus was said to have died and

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been resurrected.
Large religions, don’t come from

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nowhere and that’s a large Point
as well.

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Any explanation for this death
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Any explanation for why we have
different Witnesses writing

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around the time period saying
that this man was resurrected

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has to also be able to explain
where Christianity came from.

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If Jesus was not actually
resurrected, how did a religion

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get started about?
Where did it come from?

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And another important point
Remember that body that body,

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that, no one could find
Christians are not lacking in

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veneration of holy artifacts.
If you go throughout Europe, you

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will find lots of pieces of the
True Cross or pieces of nails

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from the cross or Allah, or
worship of statues.

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If you go to the Holy Land,
you’ll find out that this is

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where Jesus walked, and this is
where his tomb was etcetera, but

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there is nowhere, where it’s
this was where Jesus is buried.

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There is no.
This is where his body was.

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There’s a tomb that they’ll say,
this is where he’s buried, but

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it’s an empty tomb in Jerusalem.
If Jesus actually died and left

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a body, you’d expect for all
this big religion, based around

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him to venerate it, and it’s not
there.

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There’s no body of Jesus.
That’s venerated by Christians.

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It’s unanimously.
Taught that he rose from the

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dead and there is nobody, that’s
strong.

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That means that we have this
large religion here.

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That believes that someone rose
from the dead and has no

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evidence against it themselves.
Okay, that’s not so strange.

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But we have to explain where
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So, as a general conclusion to
the first part of my lecture

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tonight, Christianity,
definitely exists, nowadays,

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documents from the time period
when it was formed say that it

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started with the resurrection of
Jesus Christ.

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Christianity cannot exist
without the resurrection of

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Jesus Christ.
And in that Christianity, as a

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religion is useless without it,
the documents we have our

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original and internally
consistent.

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And for all these things, I say
that it is reasonable to assume

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that if a man actually was
resurrected, it is reasonable to

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assume that documents of the
time period would say he was

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resurrected, it is reasonable to
assume that those people who are

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affected by a miracle like that
would go around and preach.

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It is reasonable to assume that
a man who claimed something as

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Miraculous as his own death and
Resurrection, could convince

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people to go and spread a
religion in his name that seems

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reasonable to assume if he
actually was resurrected.

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But that doesn’t mean other
people haven’t come up with

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ideas about how this could have
worked.

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We’re going to cover four of
them tonight.

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They’re called the Swoon Theory.
The Conspiracy Theory, the

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hallucination Theory and the
myth Theory needs basically run

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from least plausible to most
plausible.

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So let’s start off with the
Swoon Theory.

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That’s basic idea of the Swoon
theory.

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Is that Jesus?
Really died on the cross.

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He was knocked unconscious by in
some way, came back to a state

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of consciousness inside the tomb
and that’s why everyone thought

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he was resurrected.
He didn’t actually die in the

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first place.
There’s a lot of problems with

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this Theory.
The first one is that Jesus was

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crucified.
Crucifixion, was designed to

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kill people, our documents from
the time period.

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Say he was verified to be dead.
Romans usually knew what they

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were doing when they were
planted when they were executing

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people.
So it doesn’t seem likely that

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they would have made a mistake
in this circumstance but say

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they did.
We also happen to know that this

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tomb that Jesus was in was
guarded and sealed and had a big

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Stone in front of it.
So this man who is has been

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beaten and crucified somehow
survived that comes to

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unconsciousness in a tomb with a
large Stone.

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Front of it.
Surrounded by soldiers, this is

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a problem as well.
But say for instance he manages

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is in his weakened state to roll
the stone out of the way break

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through the soldiers or who are
around and make it to his

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disciples.
We then have the problem that if

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Jesus actually didn’t die, his
disciples are liars.

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And in that case, he’s a liar as
well.

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And we’re not dealing with this
one Theory at all.

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What we’re dealing with is a
conspiracy where’s disciples

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made up the fact that he was
resurrected for their own

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benefits because if Jesus wasn’t
actually resurrected and managed

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to survive this thing and came
to them, bloody and beaten, and

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bruised, and dehydrated, and
half dead.

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They wouldn’t believe he was
resurrected.

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So we’re dealing with the wrong
Theory here anyway, it’s not the

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Swoon Theory and you still have
to deal with the fact that if he

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didn’t actually get resurrected,
you must have died at some point

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and where is that body.
But we have the next period

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which is the conspiracy theory
that the disciples made it all

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up.
There was some sort of Passover

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plot where they decided to trick
everyone and say that Jesus

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actually was resurrected.
When he’d honestly died, maybe

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they stole the body.
We don’t know what it was.

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Applied by the disciples.
This one has some problems as

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well.
First of all, why what is the

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motive of these disciples to
trick everyone with their

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Passover?
Plot, if Jesus actually was a

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liar and has risen from the
dead?

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Why would they still believe in
him?

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What is there to be gained from
helping a dead man for

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glorifying?
The name of someone who is dead

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and has Dude, everyone that he
can’t save because he couldn’t

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save himself.
We have the problem of

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motivation that what did they
have to gain from supporting

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someone?
They knew was a dead horse.

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Also, we have the problem that
we have documents written by

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these disciples and then these
documents, they say, they didn’t

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believe, they didn’t believe
that he was going to rise from

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the dead.
They thought that he was dead.

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That’s normal.
My she would expect if they come

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up with this conspiracy to say
that he wasn’t Dead when he was

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dead.
Why wouldn’t they have made

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themselves look a little bit
better rather than looking like

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faithless idiots who didn’t
believe their own master?

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If this is a conspiracy, they
could have done a lot to making

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themselves look better.
As part of this conspiracy.

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Thirdly, usually plots like this
come out over the time when they

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were persecuted when they were
going throughout the Roman

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Empire trying to make these
converts.

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Why didn’t anyone defect, why
didn’t anyone get out there and

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reveal the plot?
Then finally when you have

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authorities who are trying their
very best to defeat this

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movement, why didn’t they
managed to Figure this out, find

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out where the disables had
hidden the body and uncover it

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00:31:21,400 –> 00:31:27,800
this is not easy to understand.
The conspiracy theory in my

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opinion requires more faith than
to believe that he was

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resurrected from the dead,
because it requires men to do

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00:31:34,100 –> 00:31:39,500
things that give them no benefit
pull it off, absolutely

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00:31:39,500 –> 00:31:43,300
perfectly and prevent
authorities from finding it out

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00:31:43,300 –> 00:31:46,500
as well.
You need perfect actions by

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people for no reason.
That seems unlikely.

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The next thing we have is the
hallucination Theory.

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Not that these disciples.
Deliberately tricked everyone,

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00:31:59,100 –> 00:32:02,000
but let’s avoid the whole motive
problem and say they were

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tricked themselves.
They believed Jesus was

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resurrected from the dead, and
they did all these actions

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00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:10,100
because they thought he was
resurrected and they just seen a

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00:32:10,108 –> 00:32:12,400
bunch of hallucinations.
It’s been known to happen.

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00:32:12,400 –> 00:32:14,600
When people go through
emotional, trying circumstances

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00:32:14,600 –> 00:32:19,500
deal with death, but this again
has some problems.

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00:32:19,900 –> 00:32:23,200
First of all that body, where’s
the body?

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00:32:23,900 –> 00:32:27,600
If Jesus was not actually
Resurrected, We still don’t

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still have the problem of, where
did the body go?

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And if the disciples were
deceived, they couldn’t have

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stolen the body.
So where is the body?

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00:32:35,200 –> 00:32:39,700
Why do we have this empty tomb?
It doesn’t answer that question.

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Secondly, the idea that it could
have been a Hallucination is not

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new.
We read in Luke 24 that they

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thought it was a hallucination
by their own testimony.

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When Jesus appeared to them,
they thought they were

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hallucinating.
He had to prove to them.

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That he wasn’t a hallucination.
So if it was a hallucination,

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this was a mighty good
hallucination because it managed

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to prove to people who were
convinced, it was a

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hallucination that it wasn’t in
the way they say.

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He proved it to them was by
eating to the, in front of them,

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talking to him.
And if I touching his wounds, we

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have a mighty, fine
hallucination.

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If people are able to
hallucinate all of that, As

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00:33:23,000 –> 00:33:26,600
well.
We’ve got a hallucination that

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not only manages to prove
itself, not to be hallucination,

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but also manages to hang around
for exactly 40 days.

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So repeated hallucination.
And then stop appearing after

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those 40 days after they have
this magnificent hallucination

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of it going up into heaven.
As far as the hallucination

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Theory goes, we require
miraculous hallucination for

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this to happen and our burden of
proof already was that, we want

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00:33:52,600 –> 00:33:56,900
something that seems less
miraculous, not more, miraculous

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00:33:57,000 –> 00:33:59,400
to believe in the hallucination
Theory, you need to believe in a

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00:33:59,400 –> 00:34:01,900
greater Miracle than Jesus
rising from the dead.

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Now, the final Theory going to
look at is the myth Theory.

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The myth theory is the one
you’ll find most often in.

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Scholarly works the idea of
that.

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00:34:13,900 –> 00:34:18,400
These documents were written as
a myth and we can compare them

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with other myths.
Such as myths about officer

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00:34:21,199 –> 00:34:27,500
arrests or about certain Roman,
Catholic saints and say, those

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are obviously lousy Tails
invented by people to pump up.

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Someone they thought was
important and the gospels, the

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00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:38,100
whole new testament in fact is
just the same way, it’s a myth

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that people came up with that
was produced over time and it

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00:34:42,500 –> 00:34:47,500
didn’t really happen.
Problem with that is, as far as

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misko, the New Testament is a
pretty lousy myth.

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First of all, it was written
within 40 Years of the events

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happening.
It’s hard to create myths, quite

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that fast.
The reason for that is, let’s

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take an example of someone who
just recently died, say Ronald

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00:35:06,400 –> 00:35:11,000
Reagan, there are people still
alive who knew Ronald Reagan, if

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I wrote a biography of Ronald
Reagan in which I said that

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every morning he would he would
strap Wings on his back and fly

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00:35:19,700 –> 00:35:24,300
up in the sky in the area.
And then come back down, I might

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00:35:24,300 –> 00:35:27,200
sell a few copies of my
biography but anyone who knew

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00:35:27,200 –> 00:35:30,200
Ronald Reagan would know that he
didn’t actually do that and they

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would say that Biography was a
pack of Lies.

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00:35:34,400 –> 00:35:36,500
It probably wouldn’t get
preserved because people would

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00:35:36,500 –> 00:35:40,100
consider it a pack of lies, and
we wouldn’t have 24,000

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00:35:40,100 –> 00:35:43,700
manuscripts of it to look at.
That’s the problem we have with

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considering in a myth, it’s too
soon.

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00:35:46,200 –> 00:35:50,500
Mitch develop over time after
people can’t really say, whether

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00:35:50,500 –> 00:35:52,900
something was true or not, not
during the time, when we still

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have eye witnesses as well.
You have the problem of myths,

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00:35:57,300 –> 00:36:00,500
don’t develop out of nothing.
You need to have some solid

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00:36:00,500 –> 00:36:02,300
fact.
And who was this?

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00:36:02,300 –> 00:36:05,900
Real non mythical?
Jesus then Who the myth was

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00:36:05,900 –> 00:36:09,500
based around because of Jesus.
We have claimed that he was

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00:36:09,900 –> 00:36:12,000
risen from the dead and the
disciples.

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We have writing afterwards, say
that he rose from the dead.

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And if there was actually a real
Jesus who didn’t really rise

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00:36:19,600 –> 00:36:21,800
from the dead, and he got made
up afterwards.

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00:36:22,200 –> 00:36:25,400
We have to figure out who he
actually was and so far.

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00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:27,400
He seems like a liar and a
cheat.

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Because he said things that
didn’t actually happen.

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Ah, ah, ah, So the same argument
can be applied to the New

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Testament as a whole in second
Peter 1 in 16.

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It’s claimed, I’ll read that for
you.

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We did not follow cleverly
invented stories when we told

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you about the power and coming
of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

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00:36:49,300 –> 00:36:51,500
But we were eyewitnesses of his
majesty.

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00:36:52,600 –> 00:36:55,600
Obviously people at the time had
come up with these same theories

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00:36:55,700 –> 00:36:58,700
and we’re throwing them at them.
And in the New Testament, we

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00:36:58,700 –> 00:37:03,100
find offenses that these were
not cleverly invented, stories

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00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:08,700
sounds a lot like a myth to me
that did come up with to try and

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00:37:08,900 –> 00:37:14,300
make up this wonderful savior.
If they say something like that,

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00:37:14,300 –> 00:37:17,700
it leaves to conclusions either
they’re telling the truth or

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00:37:17,700 –> 00:37:20,400
they’re lying.
If they’re lying, we’re back to

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00:37:20,400 –> 00:37:23,800
the conspiracy theory and if
they’re telling the truth, then

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00:37:23,800 –> 00:37:33,400
Jesus was resurrected. so, now
that we’ve gone through No, and

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00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:34,900
here’s something else, that’s
interesting.

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The gospels, don’t read like
myths.

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00:37:38,800 –> 00:37:40,500
They read like eyewitness
accounts.

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00:37:40,600 –> 00:37:44,800
We have up there.
A comparison for you between the

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gospel of Peter and the Gospel
of John, the gospel of Peter.

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00:37:49,400 –> 00:37:51,300
It’s largely viewed to be a
myth.

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00:37:51,600 –> 00:37:55,200
We don’t have many manuscripts
of that because it was widely

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00:37:55,200 –> 00:37:58,100
reputed in its own time to be a
forgery.

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00:37:58,900 –> 00:38:01,100
But really, it’s kind of
interesting.

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00:38:02,000 –> 00:38:04,600
So, let’s see what it says.
It says that.

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00:38:04,800 –> 00:38:09,000
Okay, this is talking about when
Jesus was resurrected again,

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they see three men.
Come forth from the tomb and two

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00:38:11,500 –> 00:38:14,600
of them supporting one and
across following them, and of

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00:38:14,600 –> 00:38:17,700
the, to the Head reached under
the heaven, but the head of him

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00:38:17,700 –> 00:38:20,900
who was led by them over past
the heavens, and they heard a

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00:38:20,900 –> 00:38:23,400
voice from the heavens saying
that was preached to them.

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That sleep in a response was
heard from the cross.

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Yay.
So in this manner, It, we have

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00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:33,400
people with hugely
over-exaggerated Dimensions

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00:38:33,400 –> 00:38:37,600
since their heads, our way up
there and we have this gigantic

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00:38:37,600 –> 00:38:44,600
talking cross in the Gospel of
John, we have, this is the same

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path as you saw earlier.
With another verse attached, we

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have a description of something,
he clearly considers miraculous

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and annexed, but which we can
find out not to be miraculous

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instead of description of the
various This epic event.

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And we have someone going
claiming eyewitness testimony

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the man who saw it has given
testimony.

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In his testimony is true.
He knows that he tells the truth

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and he testifies so that you may
also believe the gospels don’t

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read like Miss and I invite you
to read submits and compare the

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gospels to them and see if
they’re the same sort of thing,

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because they aren’t verify me on
it.

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If you want.
They don’t read, like, men their

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wit.
They are written, like

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eyewitness accounts.
So, let’s take a look at what

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conclusions we can make from
this.

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I believe I have demonstrated
that the resurrection of Jesus

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Christ is a reasonable
explanation of the facts.

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If a man, honestly, was
resurrected from the day, we

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have a good explanation for why
we have the existence of

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Christianity.
As a religion, we have a good

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explanation for why we have all
these accounts.

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All these documents claiming
that he rose from the dead, it

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makes sense.
If a man actually was, were

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actually did get resurrected
from the dead.

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I also claimed that these other
explanations that we’ve looked

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at at are not reasonable
explanations that they require

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you to believe in a greater
Miracle than that.

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Jesus actually was resurrected
from the dead and So based on

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these two conclusions, I derive
a third conclusion and that

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conclusion, is that if Jesus did
rise from the dead, then we have

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to believe what else you said.
And the other thing that he said

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is that he’s going to come back.
When he comes back, we need to

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be ready for it and acts 17 and
verse 31.

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It says, for God has set a day
when he will judge the world

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with Justice.
By the man, he is appointed.

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He has given proof The best
almond by raising him from the

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dead.
It’s not my subject night, but

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if Jesus was resurrected from
the dead, it doesn’t just mean

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that a man was resurrected from
the dead and that’s amazing.

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It means that the other things
he said were true as well

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because him being resurrected
from the dead was the proof that

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was given for him for the other
things that he said and he said

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that he is going to come back
and judge the world and we need

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to be ready for that.
And so tonight, I hope I’ve

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demonstrated to you that we can
believe beyond all reasonable

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doubt that Jesus Christ rose
from the dead.

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I hope I’ve also demonstrated to
you that this is not just head

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knowledge but that it’s vitally
important because of Jesus

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Christ did rise from the dead.
Then it requires action on our

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part because we need to be ready
when the next thing happens that

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he miraculously approximate
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