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Summary Why think Jesus rose from the dead? Don’t we have reason to question whether Jesus was actually buried? And why opt for a supernatural explanation when there are many naturalistic theories? Dr. Jeffrey...
Summary Why take Jesus seriously when there are so many religious figures one could follow? What specific prophecies did Jesus actually fulfill and how do we know this wasn’t just forged? Also, if Jesus...
Summary Dr. Mike Licona joins the podcast to defend the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. He defends a set of “minimal facts” and offers the resurrection as the best explanation of those...
Summary Did the early Church believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist? What early evidence supports this? Also, if transubstantiation is based on Aristotelian categories that weren’t brought into Christianity until...
Summary How did C.S. Lewis argue for the existence of God? How did he argue for Christianity in particular? Would he have been sympathetic to Classical Theism? David Bates joins us to answer these...
Summary Trent Horn defends Jesus against a variety of skeptical objections, including: 1) Jesus never existed 2) Jesus is a copy from pagan myths and 3) followers of Jesus didn’t believe he physically rose...
Summary Fr. Pablo T. Gadenz, a scholar of Sacred Scripture, joins us to defend the historicity of Luke’s Gospel. He presents strong evidence for traditional authorship and explains how Luke’s Gospel belongs to the...
Show Notes Show Outline Main Point: Carl E. Olson joins us to defend the Resurrection of Jesus. Guest Bio Carl E. Olson is editor of Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight. He is the author...
In part 1, I summarized the evidence against the anonymous Gospels hypothesis. It’s a strong case. But you might wonder, if the case is so strong, why do many scholars oppose it? For example,...
Many people subscribe to the anonymous Gospel theory. That theory says the Gospel authors wrote their works and circulated them anonymously. The New American Bible Revised Edition reports that the majority of scholars hold...
