{"id":512,"date":"2022-07-24T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/201-james-robinson-he-is-not-here-he-is-risen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:43:58","slug":"201-james-robinson-he-is-not-here-he-is-risen","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/201-james-robinson-he-is-not-here-he-is-risen\/","title":{"rendered":"201: James Robinson – He is not here, He is Risen"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to a class by Bro. James Robinson entitled “He is not here, He is Risen” that was given at the Book Road Ecclesia in 2008.<\/p>\n

We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good for selfie and
\ntalks. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
\nBrian, thank you for joining us <\/p>\n

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\nthis week.
\nOn this podcast, we select one <\/p>\n

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\ntaco week to help us get the
\nBible in our daily news feed. <\/p>\n

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\nWe post a new episode of the
\nstart of each week with a short <\/p>\n

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\nintro before.
\nHand to kind of set the stage <\/p>\n

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\nfor the talk.
\nYou’re about to listen to and <\/p>\n

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\nnow let’s talk more about this
\nweek’s talk. <\/p>\n

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\nHello.
\nMy name is Justin and I’ll be <\/p>\n

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\nyour host for this week and the
\nfollowing week. <\/p>\n

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\nFor this class.
\nI’ve chosen a talk by James <\/p>\n

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\nRobinson, this class made a
\nfairly significant impact on me <\/p>\n

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\nseveral years ago and I really
\nwanted to share it with <\/p>\n

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\neveryone.
\nThis talk gets back to the <\/p>\n

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\nbasics and tries to prove the
\ndeath but more importantly the <\/p>\n

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\nresurrection of Jesus a backbone
\nof our faith. <\/p>\n

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\nSo now, we’ll turn it over to
\nJames. <\/p>\n

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\nGood evening, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m glad to see you all here
\ntonight because our subject <\/p>\n

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\ntonight is he is not here.
\nHe has risen. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd hopefully it’ll be a very
\ninteresting subject for you. <\/p>\n

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\nAll I greatly enjoyed
\nresearching it, the subject for <\/p>\n

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\ntonight officially is he is not
\nhere. <\/p>\n

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\nHe has risen, that’ll probably
\nbe the subject on whatever board<\/p>\n

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\nwe have outside.
\nIf we have a board outside at <\/p>\n

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\nthe moment, if we don’t, that’s
\nthe official title. <\/p>\n

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\nBut what you’re going to be
\nhere, Tonight is more simply <\/p>\n

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\nstated as proof that Jesus
\nChrist rose from the dead. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat I’m going to try and do in
\nthis talk is go through and get <\/p>\n

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\nevidence for why we can believe
\nthat. <\/p>\n

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\nJesus Christ, honestly did rise
\nfrom the dead and the start off.<\/p>\n

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\nI’ll explain why this is
\nimportant because Jesus Christ <\/p>\n

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\nrising from the dead is the
\nfoundation of Christianity. <\/p>\n

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\nYou’ll notice I have a quote up
\nthere. <\/p>\n

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\nFirst Corinthians 15, this is
\nfrom the Apostle Paul. <\/p>\n

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\nAll a Christian writing to other
\nChristians and he says, if <\/p>\n

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\nChrist has not been raised, our
\npreaching is useless and so is <\/p>\n

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\nyour faith, obviously Paul
\nthought the resurrection was <\/p>\n

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\npretty important that quote, by
\nthe way, is from The New <\/p>\n

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\nInternational Version.
\nAll quotations tonight on my <\/p>\n

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\nslides and that I will be
\nreading our from The New <\/p>\n

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\nInternational Version for the
\nsimple reason that it’s very <\/p>\n

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\neasy to understand and tonight I
\nwant to make sure that what I’m <\/p>\n

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\nsaying is easy to understand
\nbecause it should be Easy to <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand that we have a firm
\nand good reason to believe that <\/p>\n

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\nJesus Christ rose from the dead.
\nNow, as for why this is <\/p>\n

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\nimportant, Jesus Christ himself,
\nclaimed that he rose from the <\/p>\n

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\ndead.
\nThe reference I have up there. <\/p>\n

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\nMatthew 17, 22 to 23 is pretty
\nmuch the same as what we already<\/p>\n

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\nread earlier in Luke 24, Jesus
\nclaimed that he was going to be <\/p>\n

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\nbetrayed and killed and Rise.
\nAgain, the third day, this is <\/p>\n

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\nwhat he said.
\nIf Jesus said this, and it <\/p>\n

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\ndidn’t happen, then he is a
\nliar. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd therefore, it is hugely
\nimportant whether or not He rose<\/p>\n

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\nfrom the dead identically, his
\ndisciples afterwards, all <\/p>\n

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\nclaimed that he rose from the
\ndead Acts 2 and 32 it’s only one<\/p>\n

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\nreference among many in the New
\nTestament all claiming the same <\/p>\n

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\nthing that Jesus rose from the
\nday. <\/p>\n

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\nIf he didn’t rise from the dead,
\nthen all his disciples are liars<\/p>\n

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\nto and the entire Christian
\nfaith is founded on a lie. <\/p>\n

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\nIf that is the case, then I
\nmight as well not be speaking up<\/p>\n

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\nhere.
\nThat’s why our subject tonight. <\/p>\n

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\nIs that the resurrection He did
\nactually happen because if it <\/p>\n

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\ndidn’t actually happen, none of
\nus needs to be here tonight. <\/p>\n

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\nFinally, there’s one other
\nimportant Point. <\/p>\n

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\nChristianity has a lot of things
\nthat are important to it and <\/p>\n

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\ntonight I’m not going to talk
\nabout everything that <\/p>\n

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\nChristianity deals with.
\nWell one thing that you have to <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand is Christianity is
\nbased on Jesus Christ as a <\/p>\n

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\nliving, savior, if Jesus Christ
\nis dead in a tomb right now or <\/p>\n

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\nmoldering in the ground
\nsomeplace, then Christianity is <\/p>\n

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\nuseless because Does not have a
\nsavior. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s savior is dead and there is
\nno. <\/p>\n

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\nHope you can put in somebody who
\nis dead. <\/p>\n

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\nBut tonight we’re going to get
\ninto if he was resurrected and <\/p>\n

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\nif he was resurrected, that
\nmeans some things as well. <\/p>\n

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\nFirst of all, it means that when
\nJesus made the claim that he was<\/p>\n

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\ngoing to die and be resurrected
\nand it actually happened. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s pretty astounding.
\nYou can go talk to any <\/p>\n

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\nUndertaker and they will not
\ntell you that their corpses that<\/p>\n

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\nthey’re dealing with rise from
\nthe dead. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is not a common occurrence,
\nthis is something we call a <\/p>\n

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\nmiracle.
\nAnd if he is able to accurately <\/p>\n

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\npredict a miraculous occurrence,
\nthen we might want to believe <\/p>\n

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\nthe other things that he said,
\nidentical case for his disciples<\/p>\n

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\nif they’re all saying, something
\ntotally astounding happen and it<\/p>\n

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\nactually did happen.
\nThen we might have reason to <\/p>\n

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\nbelieve the other things they
\nsay. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd they said some other pretty
\nfascinating things, one of them <\/p>\n

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\nis quoted on the screen there
\nfor the son of man is going to <\/p>\n

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\ncome in his father’s Glory with
\nhis angels and then he Reward <\/p>\n

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\neach person according to what he
\nhas done. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s a pretty scary prediction
\nthat Christ is going to come and<\/p>\n

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\njudge the world.
\nAnd so if they were right about <\/p>\n

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\nthat, maybe we need to lend some
\nCredence to the other things <\/p>\n

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\nthey said and that’s going to be
\na scary proposition. <\/p>\n

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\nSo again our subject is
\nimportant did Jesus rise from <\/p>\n

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\nthe dead or didn’t?
\nThat’s what I’m going to try and<\/p>\n

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\nprove to you tonight.
\nNow proof is an interesting <\/p>\n

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\nthing, how do we prove
\nsomething? <\/p>\n

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\nEspecially something quite so
\namazing as a person rising from <\/p>\n

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\nthe dead.
\nIt is not hard to prove to you <\/p>\n

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\ntonight that gravity exists
\nhere. <\/p>\n

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\nI have a book, I drop the book
\nif falls down that has proven to<\/p>\n

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\nyou that gravity exists.
\nBut proving a resurrection from <\/p>\n

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\nthe dead.
\nIt’s not quite so easy because <\/p>\n

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\ndead people do not normally come
\nback to life books. <\/p>\n

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\nNormally fall when we drop them
\ndead, people do not normally <\/p>\n

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\ncome back to life.
\nIt’s called a And to prove a <\/p>\n

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\nmiracle is difficult, in fact,
\non someone back in the 1700s <\/p>\n

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\ncalled David Hume, who was an
\natheist, wrote a whole book on <\/p>\n

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\nthe subject and one of the
\nthings he said, which I thought <\/p>\n

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\nwas quite wise, was that no
\ntestimony is sufficient to <\/p>\n

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\nestablish a miracle unless the
\ntestimony of you have such kind <\/p>\n

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\nthat it’s falsehood, would be
\nmore miraculous than the fact, <\/p>\n

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\nwhich it Endeavors to establish.
\nIn other words, if we want to <\/p>\n

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\nbelieve that something.
\nThing happened which seems <\/p>\n

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\ntotally impossible.
\nThat the only way we can do that<\/p>\n

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\nreasonably, is to believe that
\nit would be totally impossible <\/p>\n

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\nfor it not to happen.
\nIn other words, if we can <\/p>\n

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\ndiscount everything else and say
\nthat couldn’t have happened then<\/p>\n

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\nwe might believe in a miracle.
\nOtherwise why would you believe <\/p>\n

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\nthat someone Rose from the day?
\nIt doesn’t normally happen. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s not a recurring fact, we
\ncan’t go and make someone else <\/p>\n

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\nrise from the dead.
\nSo if we Prove that we need to <\/p>\n

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\nprove it by showing that nothing
\nelse works. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so tonight I’m going to make
\ntwo claims I’m going to claim <\/p>\n

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\nfirst of all, that it is a
\nreasonable proposition that the <\/p>\n

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\nJesus Christ was resurrected
\nfrom the day that this is a <\/p>\n

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\nreasonable explanation of the
\nfacts. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd secondly, I am going to
\nclaim that there is no other <\/p>\n

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\nreasonable explanation of the
\nfacts. <\/p>\n

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\nYou’ll notice extensive use of
\nthe word reasonable in that. <\/p>\n

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\nThe reason for that is that That
\nin a court of law. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen we’re trying to convict
\nsomeone in a criminal court, the<\/p>\n

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\nburden of proof that Slade on
\nthe prosecution is that they <\/p>\n

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\nhave to prove.
\nHe is guilty of beyond all <\/p>\n

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\nReasonable Doubt.
\nObviously, there are some people<\/p>\n

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\ntonight who are going to be able
\nto doubt me, no matter what I <\/p>\n

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\nsay.
\nBut I want to be able to prove <\/p>\n

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\nto you beyond all reasonable
\ndoubt that Jesus Christ, rose <\/p>\n

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\nfrom the dead.
\nAnd that’s what we’re working on<\/p>\n

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\ntonight.
\nWe’re not dealing with are <\/p>\n

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\nreasonable facts.
\nWe’re dealing with reasonable <\/p>\n

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\nfacts that you should be able to
\nreasonably Understand. <\/p>\n

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\nSo let’s start off with some
\ndocumentary evidence. <\/p>\n

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\nWe read Luke 24 tonight which is
\na documentary account that <\/p>\n

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\nclaims that Jesus Christ rose
\nfrom the dead. <\/p>\n

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\nHere is a few other ones.
\nIn fact in the Bible we have <\/p>\n

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\nfour different accounts that all
\nclaim. <\/p>\n

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\nThe same thing that Jesus Christ
\nis risen from the dead. <\/p>\n

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\nYou see short excerpts from the
\nmall up on the slide tonight. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m not going to go through and
\nread each one but they all say <\/p>\n

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\nabout the same thing and I asked
\nyou if you don’t believe me to <\/p>\n

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\nread it because they all say
\nabout the same thing that this <\/p>\n

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\nman rose from the dead.
\nAnd the interesting thing about <\/p>\n

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\nthis is it’s not a single
\nwitness. <\/p>\n

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\nWe have four different
\nWitnesses, two of them. <\/p>\n

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\nMatthew and John were
\neyewitnesses of these events. <\/p>\n

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\nMark was not an eyewitness.
\nHe was writing based on the <\/p>\n

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\ntestimony of another eyewitness
\nwhich was Peter and Luke does <\/p>\n

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\nnot claim via night witness.
\nHis was a compilation but all <\/p>\n

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\nThese people were writing at
\nabout the same time and all <\/p>\n

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\nclaim that this happened, that
\nshould give us an inkling that <\/p>\n

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\nmaybe something happened.
\nIt doesn’t prove that it did <\/p>\n

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\nhappen because we’re not going
\nto look at these people tonight <\/p>\n

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\nas inspired by God.
\nThat’s the position of the <\/p>\n

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\nchristadelphians.
\nBut if their writings inspired <\/p>\n

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\nby God, I might as well, not be
\ntalking tonight, anyway, because<\/p>\n

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\nthe case is already proven.
\nIf it’s inspired then we believe<\/p>\n

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\nit in.
\nThat’s it. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re not going to do that
\ntonight. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m going to assume that these
\nare historical documents, but <\/p>\n

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\nI’m not going to say Assume that
\nthey’re inspired by God, because<\/p>\n

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\nif they’re inspired by God we
\nhave a circular argument. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd my case is already over,
\nwe’re going to assume though <\/p>\n

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\nthat they are historical
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\nreason to assume that.
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\nevidence.
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\nright now though we’re going to
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\nthese documents.
\nFirst of all, when were they re <\/p>\n

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\nif Mark had written his gospel?
\n500 years. <\/p>\n

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\nAfter the events happened, we
\nmight have reason to doubt him, <\/p>\n

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\nbut that’s not the case.
\nYou see up here, what I found as<\/p>\n

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\nscholarly opinion by those
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\nreason to believe that these
\nauthors were not lying, if you <\/p>\n

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\nbelieve that the authors were
\nlying, you get a bunch of dates <\/p>\n

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\nafter 80 70.
\nBut based on what they actually <\/p>\n

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\nwrote, the dates are usually in
\nthis range 80\/50, 27, which puts<\/p>\n

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\nyou at most 40 years after the
\nevents in cave question, You’re <\/p>\n

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\nnot accounts by people long
\nafter the events are past. <\/p>\n

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\nThese are people who claim to be
\nisland us’, and wrote a time <\/p>\n

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\nperiod where they could be
\neyewitnesses. <\/p>\n

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\nSecondly, it’s often a question
\nof who actually wrote These <\/p>\n

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\ngospels.
\nHowever, based on my research <\/p>\n

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\nagain tonight, I’m not going to
\ngive you a documentary, go over <\/p>\n

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\nof everything to do with textual
\nanalysis of the gospels. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat I will say, though, if the
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\nfor any of these for the next
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\nAnd so everyone in those time
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\ndocuments says, Mark, wrote
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\nJohn wrote, John, and if so we
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\nthat’s the case.
\nThese people wrote those books <\/p>\n

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\nand honestly, believed what they
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\nthat’s what they say.
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\nDuke, can we trust these books
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\ngot to us in a reasonable
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\nSo Up here we have a brief
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\nattestation of the New Testament
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\ndocuments.
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\nCaesar, you might have heard of
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\nHe was a Roman general who wrote
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\nLatin about his conquest of the
\ngaulish nation. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd these have been used as
\nbasic Latin texts. <\/p>\n

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\nIf you’re taking Latin for a
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\nhistory books.
\nHowever, as for manuscripts we <\/p>\n

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\nonly actually have 10 different
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\nmanuscripts, and not like modern
\ncopies of these events and the <\/p>\n

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\nnew like the oldest one.
\nAs in the closest When It Was <\/p>\n

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\nWritten, is it Thousand Years
\nafterwards? <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re not saying that it was
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\nafterwards.
\nWe’re saying that it was copied <\/p>\n

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\nand recopied and we copied and
\nthe newest copy. <\/p>\n

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\nWe have is a thousand years
\nafter it was originally written.<\/p>\n

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\nSo It’s been lots of time for
\nerrors to creep it and yet we we<\/p>\n

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\ntrust that Caesar conquered the
\nGauls. <\/p>\n

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\nWe have a bunch of other authors
\nhere. <\/p>\n

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\nThe last one you’ll notice is
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\nis for the New Testament, it’s
\nalmost embarrassing. <\/p>\n

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\nJust how much evidence we have
\nthat. <\/p>\n

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\nThe New Testament was written
\nand just how much material we <\/p>\n

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\nhave to go through it.
\nAnd figure out whether or not, <\/p>\n

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\nthis is a textual Lee accurate
\ndocument to what was originally <\/p>\n

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\nwritten.
\nYou’ll notice that the Of <\/p>\n

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\nmanuscripts.
\nWe have is two orders of <\/p>\n

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\nmagnitude higher than the
\nclosest contemporary manuscript <\/p>\n

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\nclosest contemporary document,
\nwhich is Homer’s The Iliad You <\/p>\n

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\nalso notice that the time span
\nwe have is a lot closer. <\/p>\n

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\nWe have a fragment from the
\nGospel of John, that’s identical<\/p>\n

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\nto what we currently have.
\nThat was just covered in Egypt <\/p>\n

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\nthat data to 8125, or give or
\ntake one or two years. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that’s not much more than 25
\nyears after it was originally <\/p>\n

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\nwritten.
\nNow, if you want a complete set,<\/p>\n

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\nyou have to go to about.
\nYeah, the third Century ad again<\/p>\n

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\nthat totally beats Homer’s.
\nThe Iliad in how close we have a<\/p>\n

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\ncopy to when it was originally
\nwritten, these documents have <\/p>\n

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\nbeen well preserved.
\nAnd there’s a quote that I like <\/p>\n

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\nto read you, that was from the
\nconclusion of an article. <\/p>\n

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\nI read on a text to authenticity
\nof the New Testament. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s like this simply put.
\nIf we reject the authenticity, <\/p>\n

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\nOf the New Testament on textual
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\nWe’d have to reject every
\nancient worked event equity and <\/p>\n

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\ndeclare, null and void.
\nEvery piece of historical <\/p>\n

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\ninformation from written sources
\nprior to the beginning of the <\/p>\n

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\nsecond Millennium 80.
\nIn other words, if we throw out <\/p>\n

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\nthe New Testament because we
\ncan’t trust the text, we have to<\/p>\n

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\nthrow out a whole lot of other
\nstuff because the New Testament <\/p>\n

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\nis on much better grounds than
\nmost of our knowledge of the <\/p>\n

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\nancient world.
\nThese are not documents that you<\/p>\n

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\ncan discount simply because
\nthey’re old. <\/p>\n

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\nSecond, we have a lot of old
\ndocuments. <\/p>\n

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\nWe have a lot of new documents
\nthat people don’t believe <\/p>\n

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\nbecause they’re not believable.
\nWe have fairy tales of say <\/p>\n

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\nRapunzel, nobody, no scholar
\nthat I know of reputably <\/p>\n

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\nbelieves that Rapunzel was an
\nactual person with eight foot <\/p>\n

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\nhair that had a prince climb up.
\nThere’s a question of are these <\/p>\n

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\nwere liable documents And for
\nthat matter, you have to analyze<\/p>\n

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\nthe document.
\nThere have been some excellent <\/p>\n

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\nbooks written on this.
\nThe one I’d like to point out to<\/p>\n

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\nyou, is this one by Frank
\nMorrison called who moved the <\/p>\n

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\nstone?
\nThe introduction of that book is<\/p>\n

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\ndefinitely worth reading because
\nhe starts off talking about how <\/p>\n

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\nhe intended to write a book to
\ndiscover, who the real Jesus was<\/p>\n

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\nafter sifting through all the
\nevidence and finding out where <\/p>\n

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\nthere was just the made up stuff
\nand where the real Jesus shown <\/p>\n

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\nThrough any.
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\nthe Book of Mark.
\nLook through the last seven days<\/p>\n

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\nof Jesus life and find out what
\nwas true and what wasn’t true <\/p>\n

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\nand he intended to prove that
\nJesus did not actually rise from<\/p>\n

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\nthe dead.
\nHe ended up becoming a Christian<\/p>\n

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\nand his book who moved the stone
\nis not a proof that Jesus did <\/p>\n

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\nnot rise from the dead, but a
\nproof that he did rise from the <\/p>\n

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\ndead.
\nNow, Frank Morrison was a lawyer<\/p>\n

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\nwho did this and he didn’t know
\nabout it at the time he was <\/p>\n

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\nwriting who Moved Stone but
\ngoing through and examining the <\/p>\n

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\nevidence of each of the
\ndifferent Witnesses and cross <\/p>\n

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\nexamining them.
\nAnd looking at it from a legal <\/p>\n

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\nperspective was not new.
\nIn fact, Simon Greenlee a <\/p>\n

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\nprofessor from a little-known
\nuniversity in the It’s called <\/p>\n

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\nHarvard.
\nI had done it a little bit <\/p>\n

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\nearlier, back in the 1700s.
\nIt’s called the testimony of the<\/p>\n

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\nevangelists and it did the same
\nthing. <\/p>\n

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\nIt went through each of the
\ndifferent gospels and use the <\/p>\n

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\nprinciples of law to go through
\nand figure out were these <\/p>\n

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\ntestimonies accurate?
\nDid it have a case now? <\/p>\n

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\nI’m not a lawyer.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n

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\nSo if you want to truly get a
\nlegal perspective on these <\/p>\n

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\nthings, So you’re going to have
\nto read those books but they’re <\/p>\n

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\nworth looking at and I found
\nthem very convincing. <\/p>\n

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\nAs well.
\nThere’s a whole lot of things in<\/p>\n

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\nthe record itself that are
\nconvinced. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m only going to pull out some
\nof them because I don’t have all<\/p>\n

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\nnight tonight.
\nBut this is one that I found <\/p>\n

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\nparticularly interesting in the
\nGospel of John, John records. <\/p>\n

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\nBut when they came to Jesus and
\nfound that he was already dead, <\/p>\n

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\nthey did not break his legs.
\nInstead, one of the soldiers <\/p>\n

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\npierced Jesus side with a spear
\nbringing, a sudden flow of blood<\/p>\n

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\nand water.
\nAnd why was this recorded? <\/p>\n

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\nIts recorded because it’s weird
\nthat if you pierce someone <\/p>\n

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\noutcomes, both blood and water.
\nThis is not a normal event, but <\/p>\n

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\nthat’s the sort of thing that
\nmakes it seem that if it <\/p>\n

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\nactually truly happened, it
\nwould mean that this witness was<\/p>\n

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\ntelling the truth.
\nSo once upon a time, back in <\/p>\n

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\nabout the 1700s again, there was
\na physiologist at the University<\/p>\n

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\nof Dublin who decided to run
\nsome tests on animals. <\/p>\n

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\nSo key and he was also a
\nphysiologist. <\/p>\n

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\nSo we’ve seen a lot with humans.
\nSo what he did was, he pierced, <\/p>\n

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\nlots of left signs with large
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\nthe Romans fear, and he found
\nthat there were five distinct <\/p>\n

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\ncases that could happen.
\nFirst of all, sometimes he got a<\/p>\n

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\nflow with nothing if he got
\nnothing at all except some <\/p>\n

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\nslight trickling up blood.
\nSo then lie, sometimes he got a <\/p>\n

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\nwhole lot of blood and then
\nnothing else. <\/p>\n

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\nSometimes though he got a flow
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\nblood.
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\nhe could tell based on what
\nhappened, how the thing died. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is going to use some
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\nof these three cases.
\nThe first is that what usually <\/p>\n

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\noccurs as in on a normal death?
\nYou get just a small trickle of <\/p>\n

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\ndeath by drowning and by strict
\nNia may be demonstrated by <\/p>\n

332
\n00:19:11,900 –> 00:19:14,900
\ndestroying an animal with that
\npoison and it can be proved to <\/p>\n

333
\n00:19:14,908 –> 00:19:17,000
\nbe the natural case of a
\ncrucified person. <\/p>\n

334
\n00:19:17,200 –> 00:19:20,300
\nThe third is found in cases of
\ndeath from pleurisy pericarditis<\/p>\n

335
\n00:19:20,500 –> 00:19:22,800
\nand rupture of the heart.
\nI’m not a doctor. <\/p>\n

336
\n00:19:22,900 –> 00:19:25,800
\nHe’s a doctor, you can have to
\ndepend on him or look up these <\/p>\n

337
\n00:19:25,800 –> 00:19:27,500
\nterms to find out exactly what
\nthey mean. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:19:30,000 –> 00:19:34,600
\nHis point though is that these,
\nhe came up with two following <\/p>\n

339
\n00:19:34,600 –> 00:19:38,500
\ncases that aren’t normal.
\nThese two cup following cases <\/p>\n

340
\n00:19:38,500 –> 00:19:42,000
\nwere a copious flow of water.
\nSucceeded by a, copious flow of <\/p>\n

341
\n00:19:42,000 –> 00:19:46,500
\nblood or a copious flow of blood
\nsucceeded by copious flow of <\/p>\n

342
\n00:19:46,500 –> 00:19:48,900
\nwater.
\nHe determined that these would <\/p>\n

343
\n00:19:48,900 –> 00:19:53,300
\nonly occur in a crucified person
\nwho had previously separate from<\/p>\n

344
\n00:19:53,700 –> 00:19:57,700
\npleuritic effusion, or from a
\ncrucified person who had died <\/p>\n

345
\n00:19:57,700 –> 00:20:00,100
\nupon the cross from rupture of
\nthe heart. <\/p>\n

346
\n00:20:00,300 –> 00:20:03,300
\nIn other words, this is a very
\nrare condition. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:20:03,500 –> 00:20:07,200
\nThat’s not going to happen.
\nExcept if you’re crucified and <\/p>\n

348
\n00:20:07,200 –> 00:20:10,300
\nyour heart first and that’s what
\nJohn saw. <\/p>\n

349
\n00:20:11,300 –> 00:20:13,600
\nWhich is really interesting.
\nIt’s a strong case. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:20:13,600 –> 00:20:16,500
\nThat what he saw was something
\nthat actually happened. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:20:16,700 –> 00:20:20,200
\nThat this is an eyewitness who
\nsaw a very novel circumstance <\/p>\n

352
\n00:20:20,400 –> 00:20:23,500
\nthat he wrote down to.
\nThe next verse is him going, I <\/p>\n

353
\n00:20:23,500 –> 00:20:27,500
\nactually do believe this and
\nthis is what I saw and he wrote <\/p>\n

354
\n00:20:27,500 –> 00:20:32,000
\nit down and now we can look at
\nit and go, this is the only case<\/p>\n

355
\n00:20:32,000 –> 00:20:37,300
\nwhere it would happen.
\nHe saw something amazing and it <\/p>\n

356
\n00:20:37,300 –> 00:20:40,900
\nhappened and we can look at it
\nand say, this is an eyewitness. <\/p>\n

357
\n00:20:41,100 –> 00:20:44,400
\nApproach that’s cool.
\nIt doesn’t prove it but it’s a <\/p>\n

358
\n00:20:44,400 –> 00:20:46,700
\nvery strong Mark of internal
\nconsistency. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:20:46,700 –> 00:20:49,600
\nThat these are eyewitnesses who
\nare watching what was happening <\/p>\n

360
\n00:20:49,700 –> 00:20:54,000
\nand telling us, there’s another
\nvery strong point though and <\/p>\n

361
\n00:20:54,000 –> 00:20:59,700
\nthat is the empty too.
\nThe quotes up on the screen are <\/p>\n

362
\n00:20:59,700 –> 00:21:03,900
\nkind of long, but they basically
\nexplain what the Tomb of Jesus <\/p>\n

363
\n00:21:03,900 –> 00:21:07,000
\nwas like.
\nIt had a large Stone in front of<\/p>\n

364
\n00:21:07,000 –> 00:21:11,400
\nit and it was sealed by the
\nRomans and it had a garden front<\/p>\n

365
\n00:21:11,400 –> 00:21:15,200
\nof it.
\nThis is all a time when the body<\/p>\n

366
\n00:21:15,200 –> 00:21:19,000
\nwas assumed to be there.
\nBut then we read in the record <\/p>\n

367
\n00:21:19,900 –> 00:21:21,800
\nthat the body was not found in
\nthis tomb. <\/p>\n

368
\n00:21:22,700 –> 00:21:25,400
\nIn fact, the body was not found
\nanywhere. <\/p>\n

369
\n00:21:26,900 –> 00:21:31,300
\nThis is an amazing thing.
\nUsually bodies don’t disappear <\/p>\n

370
\n00:21:31,300 –> 00:21:34,400
\nin a criminal investigation.
\nIn fact, a large portion of time<\/p>\n

371
\n00:21:34,400 –> 00:21:37,300
\nis spent looking for the body
\nbecause if you can’t find a <\/p>\n

372
\n00:21:37,308 –> 00:21:40,500
\nbody, it’s hard to establish
\nwhether or not the person <\/p>\n

373
\n00:21:40,500 –> 00:21:44,100
\nactually died.
\nAnd bodies don’t usually just <\/p>\n

374
\n00:21:44,100 –> 00:21:46,900
\ndisappear.
\nBut that seems to have been the <\/p>\n

375
\n00:21:46,900 –> 00:21:51,600
\ncase here, because even the very
\nenemies who did not believe that<\/p>\n

376
\n00:21:51,600 –> 00:21:55,000
\nJesus was resurrected claimed
\nthat the body wasn’t there. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:21:55,600 –> 00:21:58,700
\nYou’ll notice in that quote,
\nwhen the chief priests had met <\/p>\n

378
\n00:21:59,000 –> 00:22:02,400
\nwith the elders and devised a
\nplan, they gave the soldiers. <\/p>\n

379
\n00:22:02,400 –> 00:22:04,600
\nThose are the ones who are
\nguarding the tomb, a large sum <\/p>\n

380
\n00:22:04,600 –> 00:22:08,100
\nof my many telling them, you
\nalready say his disciples came <\/p>\n

381
\n00:22:08,100 –> 00:22:11,200
\nduring the night and stole him
\naway while we were asleep. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:22:12,400 –> 00:22:15,600
\nWhat that means is that the very
\npeople who did not believe in <\/p>\n

383
\n00:22:15,600 –> 00:22:19,000
\nthe resurrection, could not
\nexplain where the body had gone,<\/p>\n

384
\n00:22:19,300 –> 00:22:22,600
\nthey had to lie and say that the
\ndisciples had stolen the body. <\/p>\n

385
\n00:22:24,200 –> 00:22:27,300
\nIn other words, there was nobody
\nthat they could find that is <\/p>\n

386
\n00:22:27,300 –> 00:22:32,000
\nvery strong evidence that Jesus
\nwas resurrected from the dead <\/p>\n

387
\n00:22:32,600 –> 00:22:35,700
\nbecause if he was resurrected,
\nthen there would be no dead body<\/p>\n

388
\n00:22:35,700 –> 00:22:38,100
\nto find.
\nBut if he was not resurrected, <\/p>\n

389
\n00:22:38,300 –> 00:22:40,200
\nthen you would expect to find a
\nbody somewhere. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:42,700
\nYou would not expect an empty
\ntoo. <\/p>\n

391
\n00:22:43,300 –> 00:22:45,500
\nAnd you’ll notice that
\nthroughout the record <\/p>\n

392
\n00:22:45,500 –> 00:22:49,600
\nafterwards, there is no
\nproduction of the body of Jesus.<\/p>\n

393
\n00:22:49,600 –> 00:22:54,900
\nThere was no attempt to say that
\nJesus actually was dead. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:22:55,200 –> 00:22:59,200
\nWhen they’re persecuting the
\ndisciples afterwards, they put <\/p>\n

395
\n00:22:59,200 –> 00:23:01,900
\nthem in jail.
\nThey get mad at them, but they <\/p>\n

396
\n00:23:01,900 –> 00:23:03,800
\ndon’t say, here’s the body of
\nJesus. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:23:03,800 –> 00:23:07,200
\nSee, he’s dead, he’s dead.
\nThey can’t do that because they <\/p>\n

398
\n00:23:07,200 –> 00:23:09,700
\ndon’t have a body of Jesus to
\nproduce. <\/p>\n

399
\n00:23:10,100 –> 00:23:12,600
\nThey had to say that.
\nThe disciples had stolen him <\/p>\n

400
\n00:23:12,700 –> 00:23:14,500
\nbecause they couldn’t find this
\nbody. <\/p>\n

401
\n00:23:15,500 –> 00:23:22,400
\nThat’s powerful.
\nFinally, the reason I’m saying <\/p>\n

402
\n00:23:22,400 –> 00:23:25,200
\nthis today is because I am a
\nChristian. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:23:26,100 –> 00:23:31,200
\nI am Christian in a religion
\nthat is based on Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n

404
\n00:23:32,000 –> 00:23:36,200
\nAnd Christianity is currently a
\nreligion of 1.5 to 2 point 1 <\/p>\n

405
\n00:23:36,200 –> 00:23:40,000
\nbillion people nowadays, that
\nmeans it had to come from <\/p>\n

406
\n00:23:40,000 –> 00:23:43,800
\nsomewhere.
\nIn fact, it was established as <\/p>\n

407
\n00:23:43,800 –> 00:23:49,100
\nthe official religion of the
\nRoman Empire 380 ad, And it <\/p>\n

408
\n00:23:49,100 –> 00:23:53,400
\nemerged just about the time that
\nJesus was said to have died and <\/p>\n

409
\n00:23:53,400 –> 00:23:57,300
\nbeen resurrected.
\nLarge religions, don’t come from<\/p>\n

410
\n00:23:57,300 –> 00:24:00,100
\nnowhere and that’s a large Point
\nas well. <\/p>\n

411
\n00:24:00,400 –> 00:24:05,500
\nAny explanation for this death
\nand resurrection of Jesus? <\/p>\n

412
\n00:24:05,500 –> 00:24:09,800
\nAny explanation for why we have
\ndifferent Witnesses writing <\/p>\n

413
\n00:24:09,800 –> 00:24:12,900
\naround the time period saying
\nthat this man was resurrected <\/p>\n

414
\n00:24:12,900 –> 00:24:17,200
\nhas to also be able to explain
\nwhere Christianity came from. <\/p>\n

415
\n00:24:18,500 –> 00:24:22,400
\nIf Jesus was not actually
\nresurrected, how did a religion <\/p>\n

416
\n00:24:22,400 –> 00:24:25,200
\nget started about?
\nWhere did it come from? <\/p>\n

417
\n00:24:26,500 –> 00:24:31,500
\nAnd another important point
\nRemember that body that body, <\/p>\n

418
\n00:24:31,500 –> 00:24:36,100
\nthat, no one could find
\nChristians are not lacking in <\/p>\n

419
\n00:24:36,100 –> 00:24:40,300
\nveneration of holy artifacts.
\nIf you go throughout Europe, you<\/p>\n

420
\n00:24:40,300 –> 00:24:46,400
\nwill find lots of pieces of the
\nTrue Cross or pieces of nails <\/p>\n

421
\n00:24:46,400 –> 00:24:50,400
\nfrom the cross or Allah, or
\nworship of statues. <\/p>\n

422
\n00:24:50,400 –> 00:24:53,300
\nIf you go to the Holy Land,
\nyou’ll find out that this is <\/p>\n

423
\n00:24:53,300 –> 00:24:57,300
\nwhere Jesus walked, and this is
\nwhere his tomb was etcetera, but<\/p>\n

424
\n00:24:57,300 –> 00:25:01,300
\nthere is nowhere, where it’s
\nthis was where Jesus is buried. <\/p>\n

425
\n00:25:01,500 –> 00:25:03,900
\nThere is no.
\nThis is where his body was. <\/p>\n

426
\n00:25:04,300 –> 00:25:06,900
\nThere’s a tomb that they’ll say,
\nthis is where he’s buried, but <\/p>\n

427
\n00:25:06,900 –> 00:25:13,700
\nit’s an empty tomb in Jerusalem.
\nIf Jesus actually died and left <\/p>\n

428
\n00:25:13,700 –> 00:25:17,100
\na body, you’d expect for all
\nthis big religion, based around <\/p>\n

429
\n00:25:17,100 –> 00:25:19,500
\nhim to venerate it, and it’s not
\nthere. <\/p>\n

430
\n00:25:19,800 –> 00:25:22,700
\nThere’s no body of Jesus.
\nThat’s venerated by Christians. <\/p>\n

431
\n00:25:23,300 –> 00:25:25,700
\nIt’s unanimously.
\nTaught that he rose from the <\/p>\n

432
\n00:25:25,700 –> 00:25:29,600
\ndead and there is nobody, that’s
\nstrong. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:25:29,900 –> 00:25:32,100
\nThat means that we have this
\nlarge religion here. <\/p>\n

434
\n00:25:33,300 –> 00:25:37,500
\nThat believes that someone rose
\nfrom the dead and has no <\/p>\n

435
\n00:25:37,500 –> 00:25:41,200
\nevidence against it themselves.
\nOkay, that’s not so strange. <\/p>\n

436
\n00:25:42,200 –> 00:25:44,600
\nBut we have to explain where
\nChristianity came from. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:25:45,000 –> 00:25:47,500
\nSo, as a general conclusion to
\nthe first part of my lecture <\/p>\n

438
\n00:25:47,500 –> 00:25:51,300
\ntonight, Christianity,
\ndefinitely exists, nowadays, <\/p>\n

439
\n00:25:51,900 –> 00:25:55,800
\ndocuments from the time period
\nwhen it was formed say that it <\/p>\n

440
\n00:25:55,800 –> 00:25:57,900
\nstarted with the resurrection of
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n

441
\n00:25:58,200 –> 00:26:01,700
\nChristianity cannot exist
\nwithout the resurrection of <\/p>\n

442
\n00:26:01,700 –> 00:26:03,900
\nJesus Christ.
\nAnd in that Christianity, as a <\/p>\n

443
\n00:26:03,900 –> 00:26:08,700
\nreligion is useless without it,
\nthe documents we have our <\/p>\n

444
\n00:26:08,700 –> 00:26:11,300
\noriginal and internally
\nconsistent. <\/p>\n

445
\n00:26:12,400 –> 00:26:16,100
\nAnd for all these things, I say
\nthat it is reasonable to assume <\/p>\n

446
\n00:26:16,100 –> 00:26:19,900
\nthat if a man actually was
\nresurrected, it is reasonable to<\/p>\n

447
\n00:26:19,900 –> 00:26:22,600
\nassume that documents of the
\ntime period would say he was <\/p>\n

448
\n00:26:22,600 –> 00:26:26,100
\nresurrected, it is reasonable to
\nassume that those people who are<\/p>\n

449
\n00:26:26,100 –> 00:26:29,000
\naffected by a miracle like that
\nwould go around and preach. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:26:29,000 –> 00:26:32,400
\nIt is reasonable to assume that
\na man who claimed something as <\/p>\n

451
\n00:26:32,600 –> 00:26:36,700
\nMiraculous as his own death and
\nResurrection, could convince <\/p>\n

452
\n00:26:36,700 –> 00:26:40,600
\npeople to go and spread a
\nreligion in his name that seems <\/p>\n

453
\n00:26:40,600 –> 00:26:43,800
\nreasonable to assume if he
\nactually was resurrected. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:26:46,300 –> 00:26:48,400
\nBut that doesn’t mean other
\npeople haven’t come up with <\/p>\n

455
\n00:26:48,600 –> 00:26:51,400
\nideas about how this could have
\nworked. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:26:51,600 –> 00:26:53,000
\nWe’re going to cover four of
\nthem tonight. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:26:53,200 –> 00:26:56,700
\nThey’re called the Swoon Theory.
\nThe Conspiracy Theory, the <\/p>\n

458
\n00:26:56,700 –> 00:27:01,200
\nhallucination Theory and the
\nmyth Theory needs basically run <\/p>\n

459
\n00:27:01,200 –> 00:27:05,900
\nfrom least plausible to most
\nplausible. <\/p>\n

460
\n00:27:07,000 –> 00:27:09,200
\nSo let’s start off with the
\nSwoon Theory. <\/p>\n

461
\n00:27:10,600 –> 00:27:12,700
\nThat’s basic idea of the Swoon
\ntheory. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:27:12,700 –> 00:27:16,500
\nIs that Jesus?
\nReally died on the cross. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:27:16,800 –> 00:27:22,900
\nHe was knocked unconscious by in
\nsome way, came back to a state <\/p>\n

464
\n00:27:22,900 –> 00:27:27,400
\nof consciousness inside the tomb
\nand that’s why everyone thought <\/p>\n

465
\n00:27:27,400 –> 00:27:29,400
\nhe was resurrected.
\nHe didn’t actually die in the <\/p>\n

466
\n00:27:29,400 –> 00:27:32,100
\nfirst place.
\nThere’s a lot of problems with <\/p>\n

467
\n00:27:32,100 –> 00:27:37,200
\nthis Theory.
\nThe first one is that Jesus was <\/p>\n

468
\n00:27:37,200 –> 00:27:39,800
\ncrucified.
\nCrucifixion, was designed to <\/p>\n

469
\n00:27:39,800 –> 00:27:43,000
\nkill people, our documents from
\nthe time period. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:27:43,000 –> 00:27:47,300
\nSay he was verified to be dead.
\nRomans usually knew what they <\/p>\n

471
\n00:27:47,300 –> 00:27:49,900
\nwere doing when they were
\nplanted when they were executing<\/p>\n

472
\n00:27:49,900 –> 00:27:53,900
\npeople.
\nSo it doesn’t seem likely that <\/p>\n

473
\n00:27:53,900 –> 00:27:56,500
\nthey would have made a mistake
\nin this circumstance but say <\/p>\n

474
\n00:27:56,500 –> 00:27:59,100
\nthey did.
\nWe also happen to know that this<\/p>\n

475
\n00:27:59,100 –> 00:28:02,500
\ntomb that Jesus was in was
\nguarded and sealed and had a big<\/p>\n

476
\n00:28:02,500 –> 00:28:06,900
\nStone in front of it.
\nSo this man who is has been <\/p>\n

477
\n00:28:06,900 –> 00:28:11,000
\nbeaten and crucified somehow
\nsurvived that comes to <\/p>\n

478
\n00:28:11,000 –> 00:28:14,300
\nunconsciousness in a tomb with a
\nlarge Stone. <\/p>\n

479
\n00:28:14,500 –> 00:28:18,100
\nFront of it.
\nSurrounded by soldiers, this is <\/p>\n

480
\n00:28:18,100 –> 00:28:21,700
\na problem as well.
\nBut say for instance he manages <\/p>\n

481
\n00:28:21,700 –> 00:28:25,500
\nis in his weakened state to roll
\nthe stone out of the way break <\/p>\n

482
\n00:28:25,500 –> 00:28:28,600
\nthrough the soldiers or who are
\naround and make it to his <\/p>\n

483
\n00:28:28,600 –> 00:28:32,900
\ndisciples.
\nWe then have the problem that if<\/p>\n

484
\n00:28:32,900 –> 00:28:36,600
\nJesus actually didn’t die, his
\ndisciples are liars. <\/p>\n

485
\n00:28:37,800 –> 00:28:40,100
\nAnd in that case, he’s a liar as
\nwell. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:28:40,500 –> 00:28:42,100
\nAnd we’re not dealing with this
\none Theory at all. <\/p>\n

487
\n00:28:42,100 –> 00:28:45,300
\nWhat we’re dealing with is a
\nconspiracy where’s disciples <\/p>\n

488
\n00:28:45,300 –> 00:28:49,000
\nmade up the fact that he was
\nresurrected for their own <\/p>\n

489
\n00:28:49,000 –> 00:28:54,500
\nbenefits because if Jesus wasn’t
\nactually resurrected and managed<\/p>\n

490
\n00:28:54,500 –> 00:28:57,300
\nto survive this thing and came
\nto them, bloody and beaten, and <\/p>\n

491
\n00:28:57,300 –> 00:28:59,900
\nbruised, and dehydrated, and
\nhalf dead. <\/p>\n

492
\n00:29:00,200 –> 00:29:01,600
\nThey wouldn’t believe he was
\nresurrected. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:29:03,100 –> 00:29:05,900
\nSo we’re dealing with the wrong
\nTheory here anyway, it’s not the<\/p>\n

494
\n00:29:05,900 –> 00:29:09,600
\nSwoon Theory and you still have
\nto deal with the fact that if he<\/p>\n

495
\n00:29:09,600 –> 00:29:12,600
\ndidn’t actually get resurrected,
\nyou must have died at some point<\/p>\n

496
\n00:29:12,600 –> 00:29:17,100
\nand where is that body.
\nBut we have the next period <\/p>\n

497
\n00:29:17,100 –> 00:29:20,800
\nwhich is the conspiracy theory
\nthat the disciples made it all <\/p>\n

498
\n00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:22,600
\nup.
\nThere was some sort of Passover <\/p>\n

499
\n00:29:22,600 –> 00:29:26,500
\nplot where they decided to trick
\neveryone and say that Jesus <\/p>\n

500
\n00:29:26,500 –> 00:29:30,400
\nactually was resurrected.
\nWhen he’d honestly died, maybe <\/p>\n

501
\n00:29:30,400 –> 00:29:32,600
\nthey stole the body.
\nWe don’t know what it was. <\/p>\n

502
\n00:29:32,800 –> 00:29:38,000
\nApplied by the disciples.
\nThis one has some problems as <\/p>\n

503
\n00:29:38,000 –> 00:29:41,900
\nwell.
\nFirst of all, why what is the <\/p>\n

504
\n00:29:41,900 –> 00:29:45,600
\nmotive of these disciples to
\ntrick everyone with their <\/p>\n

505
\n00:29:45,600 –> 00:29:50,100
\nPassover?
\nPlot, if Jesus actually was a <\/p>\n

506
\n00:29:50,108 –> 00:29:52,200
\nliar and has risen from the
\ndead? <\/p>\n

507
\n00:29:53,000 –> 00:29:55,800
\nWhy would they still believe in
\nhim? <\/p>\n

508
\n00:29:55,800 –> 00:29:59,600
\nWhat is there to be gained from
\nhelping a dead man for <\/p>\n

509
\n00:29:59,600 –> 00:30:02,100
\nglorifying?
\nThe name of someone who is dead <\/p>\n

510
\n00:30:02,200 –> 00:30:06,100
\nand has Dude, everyone that he
\ncan’t save because he couldn’t <\/p>\n

511
\n00:30:06,100 –> 00:30:09,300
\nsave himself.
\nWe have the problem of <\/p>\n

512
\n00:30:09,300 –> 00:30:13,000
\nmotivation that what did they
\nhave to gain from supporting <\/p>\n

513
\n00:30:13,000 –> 00:30:15,600
\nsomeone?
\nThey knew was a dead horse. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:30:17,300 –> 00:30:20,800
\nAlso, we have the problem that
\nwe have documents written by <\/p>\n

515
\n00:30:20,800 –> 00:30:23,800
\nthese disciples and then these
\ndocuments, they say, they didn’t<\/p>\n

516
\n00:30:23,800 –> 00:30:26,800
\nbelieve, they didn’t believe
\nthat he was going to rise from <\/p>\n

517
\n00:30:26,800 –> 00:30:28,900
\nthe dead.
\nThey thought that he was dead. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:30:29,700 –> 00:30:33,500
\nThat’s normal.
\nMy she would expect if they come<\/p>\n

519
\n00:30:33,500 –> 00:30:38,600
\nup with this conspiracy to say
\nthat he wasn’t Dead when he was <\/p>\n

520
\n00:30:38,600 –> 00:30:40,000
\ndead.
\nWhy wouldn’t they have made <\/p>\n

521
\n00:30:40,000 –> 00:30:42,500
\nthemselves look a little bit
\nbetter rather than looking like <\/p>\n

522
\n00:30:42,500 –> 00:30:45,700
\nfaithless idiots who didn’t
\nbelieve their own master? <\/p>\n

523
\n00:30:46,500 –> 00:30:49,000
\nIf this is a conspiracy, they
\ncould have done a lot to making <\/p>\n

524
\n00:30:49,000 –> 00:30:52,000
\nthemselves look better.
\nAs part of this conspiracy. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:30:52,800 –> 00:30:58,800
\nThirdly, usually plots like this
\ncome out over the time when they<\/p>\n

526
\n00:30:58,800 –> 00:31:01,700
\nwere persecuted when they were
\ngoing throughout the Roman <\/p>\n

527
\n00:31:01,700 –> 00:31:03,400
\nEmpire trying to make these
\nconverts. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:31:04,000 –> 00:31:07,700
\nWhy didn’t anyone defect, why
\ndidn’t anyone get out there and <\/p>\n

529
\n00:31:07,700 –> 00:31:10,700
\nreveal the plot?
\nThen finally when you have <\/p>\n

530
\n00:31:10,700 –> 00:31:13,900
\nauthorities who are trying their
\nvery best to defeat this <\/p>\n

531
\n00:31:13,900 –> 00:31:17,600
\nmovement, why didn’t they
\nmanaged to Figure this out, find<\/p>\n

532
\n00:31:17,600 –> 00:31:21,000
\nout where the disables had
\nhidden the body and uncover it <\/p>\n

533
\n00:31:21,400 –> 00:31:27,800
\nthis is not easy to understand.
\nThe conspiracy theory in my <\/p>\n

534
\n00:31:27,800 –> 00:31:31,300
\nopinion requires more faith than
\nto believe that he was <\/p>\n

535
\n00:31:31,300 –> 00:31:34,100
\nresurrected from the dead,
\nbecause it requires men to do <\/p>\n

536
\n00:31:34,100 –> 00:31:39,500
\nthings that give them no benefit
\npull it off, absolutely <\/p>\n

537
\n00:31:39,500 –> 00:31:43,300
\nperfectly and prevent
\nauthorities from finding it out <\/p>\n

538
\n00:31:43,300 –> 00:31:46,500
\nas well.
\nYou need perfect actions by <\/p>\n

539
\n00:31:46,500 –> 00:31:49,700
\npeople for no reason.
\nThat seems unlikely. <\/p>\n

540
\n00:31:50,700 –> 00:31:53,200
\nThe next thing we have is the
\nhallucination Theory. <\/p>\n

541
\n00:31:54,100 –> 00:31:58,400
\nNot that these disciples.
\nDeliberately tricked everyone, <\/p>\n

542
\n00:31:59,100 –> 00:32:02,000
\nbut let’s avoid the whole motive
\nproblem and say they were <\/p>\n

543
\n00:32:02,000 –> 00:32:04,700
\ntricked themselves.
\nThey believed Jesus was <\/p>\n

544
\n00:32:04,700 –> 00:32:06,800
\nresurrected from the dead, and
\nthey did all these actions <\/p>\n

545
\n00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:10,100
\nbecause they thought he was
\nresurrected and they just seen a<\/p>\n

546
\n00:32:10,108 –> 00:32:12,400
\nbunch of hallucinations.
\nIt’s been known to happen. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:32:12,400 –> 00:32:14,600
\nWhen people go through
\nemotional, trying circumstances <\/p>\n

548
\n00:32:14,600 –> 00:32:19,500
\ndeal with death, but this again
\nhas some problems. <\/p>\n

549
\n00:32:19,900 –> 00:32:23,200
\nFirst of all that body, where’s
\nthe body? <\/p>\n

550
\n00:32:23,900 –> 00:32:27,600
\nIf Jesus was not actually
\nResurrected, We still don’t <\/p>\n

551
\n00:32:27,800 –> 00:32:29,800
\nstill have the problem of, where
\ndid the body go? <\/p>\n

552
\n00:32:30,000 –> 00:32:32,000
\nAnd if the disciples were
\ndeceived, they couldn’t have <\/p>\n

553
\n00:32:32,000 –> 00:32:35,000
\nstolen the body.
\nSo where is the body? <\/p>\n

554
\n00:32:35,200 –> 00:32:39,700
\nWhy do we have this empty tomb?
\nIt doesn’t answer that question.<\/p>\n

555
\n00:32:40,400 –> 00:32:44,000
\nSecondly, the idea that it could
\nhave been a Hallucination is not<\/p>\n

556
\n00:32:44,000 –> 00:32:45,800
\nnew.
\nWe read in Luke 24 that they <\/p>\n

557
\n00:32:45,800 –> 00:32:49,200
\nthought it was a hallucination
\nby their own testimony. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:32:49,200 –> 00:32:51,500
\nWhen Jesus appeared to them,
\nthey thought they were <\/p>\n

559
\n00:32:51,500 –> 00:32:53,500
\nhallucinating.
\nHe had to prove to them. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:32:53,500 –> 00:32:58,700
\nThat he wasn’t a hallucination.
\nSo if it was a hallucination, <\/p>\n

561
\n00:32:58,700 –> 00:33:01,200
\nthis was a mighty good
\nhallucination because it managed<\/p>\n

562
\n00:33:01,200 –> 00:33:03,200
\nto prove to people who were
\nconvinced, it was a <\/p>\n

563
\n00:33:03,200 –> 00:33:07,300
\nhallucination that it wasn’t in
\nthe way they say. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:33:07,700 –> 00:33:10,900
\nHe proved it to them was by
\neating to the, in front of them,<\/p>\n

565
\n00:33:11,100 –> 00:33:14,700
\ntalking to him.
\nAnd if I touching his wounds, we<\/p>\n

566
\n00:33:14,700 –> 00:33:16,900
\nhave a mighty, fine
\nhallucination. <\/p>\n

567
\n00:33:17,100 –> 00:33:23,000
\nIf people are able to
\nhallucinate all of that, As <\/p>\n

568
\n00:33:23,000 –> 00:33:26,600
\nwell.
\nWe’ve got a hallucination that <\/p>\n

569
\n00:33:26,600 –> 00:33:30,300
\nnot only manages to prove
\nitself, not to be hallucination,<\/p>\n

570
\n00:33:30,400 –> 00:33:34,000
\nbut also manages to hang around
\nfor exactly 40 days. <\/p>\n

571
\n00:33:34,100 –> 00:33:38,700
\nSo repeated hallucination.
\nAnd then stop appearing after <\/p>\n

572
\n00:33:38,700 –> 00:33:41,400
\nthose 40 days after they have
\nthis magnificent hallucination <\/p>\n

573
\n00:33:41,400 –> 00:33:45,300
\nof it going up into heaven.
\nAs far as the hallucination <\/p>\n

574
\n00:33:45,300 –> 00:33:48,400
\nTheory goes, we require
\nmiraculous hallucination for <\/p>\n

575
\n00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:52,600
\nthis to happen and our burden of
\nproof already was that, we want <\/p>\n

576
\n00:33:52,600 –> 00:33:56,900
\nsomething that seems less
\nmiraculous, not more, miraculous<\/p>\n

577
\n00:33:57,000 –> 00:33:59,400
\nto believe in the hallucination
\nTheory, you need to believe in a<\/p>\n

578
\n00:33:59,400 –> 00:34:01,900
\ngreater Miracle than Jesus
\nrising from the dead. <\/p>\n

579
\n00:34:03,500 –> 00:34:06,400
\nNow, the final Theory going to
\nlook at is the myth Theory. <\/p>\n

580
\n00:34:06,900 –> 00:34:10,800
\nThe myth theory is the one
\nyou’ll find most often in. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:34:10,800 –> 00:34:13,199
\nScholarly works the idea of
\nthat. <\/p>\n

582
\n00:34:13,900 –> 00:34:18,400
\nThese documents were written as
\na myth and we can compare them <\/p>\n

583
\n00:34:18,400 –> 00:34:21,199
\nwith other myths.
\nSuch as myths about officer <\/p>\n

584
\n00:34:21,199 –> 00:34:27,500
\narrests or about certain Roman,
\nCatholic saints and say, those <\/p>\n

585
\n00:34:27,500 –> 00:34:31,400
\nare obviously lousy Tails
\ninvented by people to pump up. <\/p>\n

586
\n00:34:31,600 –> 00:34:35,000
\nSomeone they thought was
\nimportant and the gospels, the <\/p>\n

587
\n00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:38,100
\nwhole new testament in fact is
\njust the same way, it’s a myth <\/p>\n

588
\n00:34:38,199 –> 00:34:42,500
\nthat people came up with that
\nwas produced over time and it <\/p>\n

589
\n00:34:42,500 –> 00:34:47,500
\ndidn’t really happen.
\nProblem with that is, as far as <\/p>\n

590
\n00:34:47,500 –> 00:34:52,100
\nmisko, the New Testament is a
\npretty lousy myth. <\/p>\n

591
\n00:34:52,300 –> 00:34:56,800
\nFirst of all, it was written
\nwithin 40 Years of the events <\/p>\n

592
\n00:34:56,800 –> 00:34:59,100
\nhappening.
\nIt’s hard to create myths, quite<\/p>\n

593
\n00:34:59,100 –> 00:35:02,800
\nthat fast.
\nThe reason for that is, let’s <\/p>\n

594
\n00:35:02,800 –> 00:35:06,400
\ntake an example of someone who
\njust recently died, say Ronald <\/p>\n

595
\n00:35:06,400 –> 00:35:11,000
\nReagan, there are people still
\nalive who knew Ronald Reagan, if<\/p>\n

596
\n00:35:11,000 –> 00:35:14,400
\nI wrote a biography of Ronald
\nReagan in which I said that <\/p>\n

597
\n00:35:14,500 –> 00:35:19,700
\nevery morning he would he would
\nstrap Wings on his back and fly <\/p>\n

598
\n00:35:19,700 –> 00:35:24,300
\nup in the sky in the area.
\nAnd then come back down, I might<\/p>\n

599
\n00:35:24,300 –> 00:35:27,200
\nsell a few copies of my
\nbiography but anyone who knew <\/p>\n

600
\n00:35:27,200 –> 00:35:30,200
\nRonald Reagan would know that he
\ndidn’t actually do that and they<\/p>\n

601
\n00:35:30,200 –> 00:35:32,500
\nwould say that Biography was a
\npack of Lies. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:35:34,400 –> 00:35:36,500
\nIt probably wouldn’t get
\npreserved because people would <\/p>\n

603
\n00:35:36,500 –> 00:35:40,100
\nconsider it a pack of lies, and
\nwe wouldn’t have 24,000 <\/p>\n

604
\n00:35:40,100 –> 00:35:43,700
\nmanuscripts of it to look at.
\nThat’s the problem we have with <\/p>\n

605
\n00:35:43,700 –> 00:35:45,900
\nconsidering in a myth, it’s too
\nsoon. <\/p>\n

606
\n00:35:46,200 –> 00:35:50,500
\nMitch develop over time after
\npeople can’t really say, whether<\/p>\n

607
\n00:35:50,500 –> 00:35:52,900
\nsomething was true or not, not
\nduring the time, when we still <\/p>\n

608
\n00:35:52,900 –> 00:35:57,300
\nhave eye witnesses as well.
\nYou have the problem of myths, <\/p>\n

609
\n00:35:57,300 –> 00:36:00,500
\ndon’t develop out of nothing.
\nYou need to have some solid <\/p>\n

610
\n00:36:00,500 –> 00:36:02,300
\nfact.
\nAnd who was this? <\/p>\n

611
\n00:36:02,300 –> 00:36:05,900
\nReal non mythical?
\nJesus then Who the myth was <\/p>\n

612
\n00:36:05,900 –> 00:36:09,500
\nbased around because of Jesus.
\nWe have claimed that he was <\/p>\n

613
\n00:36:09,900 –> 00:36:12,000
\nrisen from the dead and the
\ndisciples. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:36:12,000 –> 00:36:14,900
\nWe have writing afterwards, say
\nthat he rose from the dead. <\/p>\n

615
\n00:36:15,200 –> 00:36:19,600
\nAnd if there was actually a real
\nJesus who didn’t really rise <\/p>\n

616
\n00:36:19,600 –> 00:36:21,800
\nfrom the dead, and he got made
\nup afterwards. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:36:22,200 –> 00:36:25,400
\nWe have to figure out who he
\nactually was and so far. <\/p>\n

618
\n00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:27,400
\nHe seems like a liar and a
\ncheat. <\/p>\n

619
\n00:36:27,800 –> 00:36:30,800
\nBecause he said things that
\ndidn’t actually happen. <\/p>\n

620
\n00:36:33,200 –> 00:36:36,800
\nAh, ah, ah, So the same argument
\ncan be applied to the New <\/p>\n

621
\n00:36:36,800 –> 00:36:40,300
\nTestament as a whole in second
\nPeter 1 in 16. <\/p>\n

622
\n00:36:40,800 –> 00:36:43,200
\nIt’s claimed, I’ll read that for
\nyou. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:36:43,600 –> 00:36:46,800
\nWe did not follow cleverly
\ninvented stories when we told <\/p>\n

624
\n00:36:46,800 –> 00:36:49,200
\nyou about the power and coming
\nof our Lord, Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n

625
\n00:36:49,300 –> 00:36:51,500
\nBut we were eyewitnesses of his
\nmajesty. <\/p>\n

626
\n00:36:52,600 –> 00:36:55,600
\nObviously people at the time had
\ncome up with these same theories<\/p>\n

627
\n00:36:55,700 –> 00:36:58,700
\nand we’re throwing them at them.
\nAnd in the New Testament, we <\/p>\n

628
\n00:36:58,700 –> 00:37:03,100
\nfind offenses that these were
\nnot cleverly invented, stories <\/p>\n

629
\n00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:08,700
\nsounds a lot like a myth to me
\nthat did come up with to try and<\/p>\n

630
\n00:37:08,900 –> 00:37:14,300
\nmake up this wonderful savior.
\nIf they say something like that,<\/p>\n

631
\n00:37:14,300 –> 00:37:17,700
\nit leaves to conclusions either
\nthey’re telling the truth or <\/p>\n

632
\n00:37:17,700 –> 00:37:20,400
\nthey’re lying.
\nIf they’re lying, we’re back to <\/p>\n

633
\n00:37:20,400 –> 00:37:23,800
\nthe conspiracy theory and if
\nthey’re telling the truth, then <\/p>\n

634
\n00:37:23,800 –> 00:37:33,400
\nJesus was resurrected. so, now
\nthat we’ve gone through No, and <\/p>\n

635
\n00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:34,900
\nhere’s something else, that’s
\ninteresting. <\/p>\n

636
\n00:37:36,600 –> 00:37:38,700
\nThe gospels, don’t read like
\nmyths. <\/p>\n

637
\n00:37:38,800 –> 00:37:40,500
\nThey read like eyewitness
\naccounts. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:37:40,600 –> 00:37:44,800
\nWe have up there.
\nA comparison for you between the<\/p>\n

639
\n00:37:44,800 –> 00:37:49,200
\ngospel of Peter and the Gospel
\nof John, the gospel of Peter. <\/p>\n

640
\n00:37:49,400 –> 00:37:51,300
\nIt’s largely viewed to be a
\nmyth. <\/p>\n

641
\n00:37:51,600 –> 00:37:55,200
\nWe don’t have many manuscripts
\nof that because it was widely <\/p>\n

642
\n00:37:55,200 –> 00:37:58,100
\nreputed in its own time to be a
\nforgery. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:37:58,900 –> 00:38:01,100
\nBut really, it’s kind of
\ninteresting. <\/p>\n

644
\n00:38:02,000 –> 00:38:04,600
\nSo, let’s see what it says.
\nIt says that. <\/p>\n

645
\n00:38:04,800 –> 00:38:09,000
\nOkay, this is talking about when
\nJesus was resurrected again, <\/p>\n

646
\n00:38:09,000 –> 00:38:11,500
\nthey see three men.
\nCome forth from the tomb and two<\/p>\n

647
\n00:38:11,500 –> 00:38:14,600
\nof them supporting one and
\nacross following them, and of <\/p>\n

648
\n00:38:14,600 –> 00:38:17,700
\nthe, to the Head reached under
\nthe heaven, but the head of him <\/p>\n

649
\n00:38:17,700 –> 00:38:20,900
\nwho was led by them over past
\nthe heavens, and they heard a <\/p>\n

650
\n00:38:20,900 –> 00:38:23,400
\nvoice from the heavens saying
\nthat was preached to them. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:38:23,400 –> 00:38:26,100
\nThat sleep in a response was
\nheard from the cross. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:38:26,400 –> 00:38:29,500
\nYay.
\nSo in this manner, It, we have <\/p>\n

653
\n00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:33,400
\npeople with hugely
\nover-exaggerated Dimensions <\/p>\n

654
\n00:38:33,400 –> 00:38:37,600
\nsince their heads, our way up
\nthere and we have this gigantic <\/p>\n

655
\n00:38:37,600 –> 00:38:44,600
\ntalking cross in the Gospel of
\nJohn, we have, this is the same <\/p>\n

656
\n00:38:44,600 –> 00:38:48,100
\npath as you saw earlier.
\nWith another verse attached, we <\/p>\n

657
\n00:38:48,100 –> 00:38:51,900
\nhave a description of something,
\nhe clearly considers miraculous <\/p>\n

658
\n00:38:52,500 –> 00:38:57,100
\nand annexed, but which we can
\nfind out not to be miraculous <\/p>\n

659
\n00:38:57,100 –> 00:38:59,400
\ninstead of description of the
\nvarious This epic event. <\/p>\n

660
\n00:39:00,500 –> 00:39:05,100
\nAnd we have someone going
\nclaiming eyewitness testimony <\/p>\n

661
\n00:39:05,100 –> 00:39:06,900
\nthe man who saw it has given
\ntestimony. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:39:06,900 –> 00:39:09,700
\nIn his testimony is true.
\nHe knows that he tells the truth<\/p>\n

663
\n00:39:09,700 –> 00:39:14,100
\nand he testifies so that you may
\nalso believe the gospels don’t <\/p>\n

664
\n00:39:14,100 –> 00:39:17,300
\nread like Miss and I invite you
\nto read submits and compare the <\/p>\n

665
\n00:39:17,300 –> 00:39:20,100
\ngospels to them and see if
\nthey’re the same sort of thing, <\/p>\n

666
\n00:39:20,400 –> 00:39:24,200
\nbecause they aren’t verify me on
\nit. <\/p>\n

667
\n00:39:24,400 –> 00:39:26,600
\nIf you want.
\nThey don’t read, like, men their<\/p>\n

668
\n00:39:26,600 –> 00:39:28,400
\nwit.
\nThey are written, like <\/p>\n

669
\n00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:31,700
\neyewitness accounts.
\nSo, let’s take a look at what <\/p>\n

670
\n00:39:31,700 –> 00:39:33,300
\nconclusions we can make from
\nthis. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:39:34,400 –> 00:39:38,000
\nI believe I have demonstrated
\nthat the resurrection of Jesus <\/p>\n

672
\n00:39:38,000 –> 00:39:40,800
\nChrist is a reasonable
\nexplanation of the facts. <\/p>\n

673
\n00:39:41,000 –> 00:39:44,300
\nIf a man, honestly, was
\nresurrected from the day, we <\/p>\n

674
\n00:39:44,300 –> 00:39:48,900
\nhave a good explanation for why
\nwe have the existence of <\/p>\n

675
\n00:39:48,900 –> 00:39:51,200
\nChristianity.
\nAs a religion, we have a good <\/p>\n

676
\n00:39:51,200 –> 00:39:54,000
\nexplanation for why we have all
\nthese accounts. <\/p>\n

677
\n00:39:54,500 –> 00:39:57,200
\nAll these documents claiming
\nthat he rose from the dead, it <\/p>\n

678
\n00:39:57,200 –> 00:40:00,200
\nmakes sense.
\nIf a man actually was, were <\/p>\n

679
\n00:40:01,400 –> 00:40:04,000
\nactually did get resurrected
\nfrom the dead. <\/p>\n

680
\n00:40:05,600 –> 00:40:08,800
\nI also claimed that these other
\nexplanations that we’ve looked <\/p>\n

681
\n00:40:08,800 –> 00:40:12,100
\nat at are not reasonable
\nexplanations that they require <\/p>\n

682
\n00:40:12,100 –> 00:40:14,600
\nyou to believe in a greater
\nMiracle than that. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:40:14,600 –> 00:40:19,900
\nJesus actually was resurrected
\nfrom the dead and So based on <\/p>\n

684
\n00:40:19,900 –> 00:40:25,700
\nthese two conclusions, I derive
\na third conclusion and that <\/p>\n

685
\n00:40:25,700 –> 00:40:32,800
\nconclusion, is that if Jesus did
\nrise from the dead, then we have<\/p>\n

686
\n00:40:32,800 –> 00:40:37,100
\nto believe what else you said.
\nAnd the other thing that he said<\/p>\n

687
\n00:40:37,300 –> 00:40:41,300
\nis that he’s going to come back.
\nWhen he comes back, we need to <\/p>\n

688
\n00:40:41,300 –> 00:40:45,200
\nbe ready for it and acts 17 and
\nverse 31. <\/p>\n

689
\n00:40:45,200 –> 00:40:49,000
\nIt says, for God has set a day
\nwhen he will judge the world <\/p>\n

690
\n00:40:49,000 –> 00:40:51,300
\nwith Justice.
\nBy the man, he is appointed. <\/p>\n

691
\n00:40:51,300 –> 00:40:54,200
\nHe has given proof The best
\nalmond by raising him from the <\/p>\n

692
\n00:40:54,200 –> 00:40:56,900
\ndead.
\nIt’s not my subject night, but <\/p>\n

693
\n00:40:56,900 –> 00:41:01,100
\nif Jesus was resurrected from
\nthe dead, it doesn’t just mean <\/p>\n

694
\n00:41:01,200 –> 00:41:03,400
\nthat a man was resurrected from
\nthe dead and that’s amazing. <\/p>\n

695
\n00:41:04,200 –> 00:41:08,300
\nIt means that the other things
\nhe said were true as well <\/p>\n

696
\n00:41:08,300 –> 00:41:11,400
\nbecause him being resurrected
\nfrom the dead was the proof that<\/p>\n

697
\n00:41:11,400 –> 00:41:17,000
\nwas given for him for the other
\nthings that he said and he said <\/p>\n

698
\n00:41:17,000 –> 00:41:20,200
\nthat he is going to come back
\nand judge the world and we need <\/p>\n

699
\n00:41:20,200 –> 00:41:23,700
\nto be ready for that.
\nAnd so tonight, I hope I’ve <\/p>\n

700
\n00:41:23,700 –> 00:41:27,300
\ndemonstrated to you that we can
\nbelieve beyond all reasonable <\/p>\n

701
\n00:41:27,300 –> 00:41:29,900
\ndoubt that Jesus Christ rose
\nfrom the dead. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:41:30,300 –> 00:41:33,200
\nI hope I’ve also demonstrated to
\nyou that this is not just head <\/p>\n

703
\n00:41:33,200 –> 00:41:36,100
\nknowledge but that it’s vitally
\nimportant because of Jesus <\/p>\n

704
\n00:41:36,100 –> 00:41:40,800
\nChrist did rise from the dead.
\nThen it requires action on our <\/p>\n

705
\n00:41:40,800 –> 00:41:44,600
\npart because we need to be ready
\nwhen the next thing happens that<\/p>\n

706
\n00:41:44,600 –> 00:42:02,100
\nhe miraculously approximate
\nThank you for listening to the <\/p>\n

707
\n00:42:02,100 –> 00:42:03,900
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708
\n00:42:04,600 –> 00:42:06,600
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709
\n00:42:07,000 –> 00:42:09,400
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