In it, the apostle Paul writes: “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.” ( 1 Corinthians 15:3-5) 1 Corinthians was written around 55 A.D.The earliest Biblical accounts of Jesus’ life were written just a few decades after his death, and they firmly attest that Jesus rose from the dead.or April 3, 33 A.D.Ĭhristians have always claimed that Jesus rose from the dead Jesus’ crucifixion was probably on April 7, 30 A.D.James Dunn states that these ‘two facts in the life of Jesus command almost universal assent’ and ‘rank so high on the “almost impossible to doubt or deny” scale of historical facts’ that they are often the starting points for the study of the historical Jesus.” Wikipedia: “The baptism of Jesus and his crucifixion are considered to be two historically certain facts about Jesus.
Some uncontroversial preliminaries There really was a man named Jesus who was crucified If we can gain confidence in this, then this provides a foundation for us to have faith in the rest of the claims of Christianity. To me, the resurrection of Christ is the fundamental theorem of Christianity.We can believe the hard theorems because we have confidence in the axioms and the easy theorems.But in math, if we start with axioms that are solid, then we can prove easy theorems based on those axioms, and then use those easy theorems to prove counterintuitive, seemingly false theorems.There are things about Christianity that are confusing or hard to accept as true.This would have profound implications for our understanding of the universe, existence, morality, God, and everything else.What if Jesus really did rise from the dead?
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Bayes’ Theorem, a foundational result in statistics, was derived in the context of thinking about how rational people should update their beliefs about Jesus’ resurrection in response to empirical evidence.If we don’t rule it out by assumption, then we can apply common methods of rational inquiry to judge whether the event really happened. This is an empirical claim that is in principle falsifiable.From the Bible: “And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.” ( 1 Corinthians 15:14).And it says, if this didn’t happen, you should dismiss the entire religion. It makes a claim that an event happened in space and time: Jesus Christ died and then was raised from the dead.On what basis would you confirm or deny that claim?.Claim: Religious Figure X received a divine revelation.(even though I don’t believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy)Ĭhristianity is falsifiable Many religious claims are not verifiable or falsifiable
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