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2020-03-30T19:04:59-04:00

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Resurrection #7: 4 Non-Christian Sources Confirming Jesus’ Resurrection

Last updated on: March 30, 2020 at 7:04 pm By Mark Driscoll

Because Jesus’ death is a historical fact, the corroborating evidence of non-Christian sources in addition to the Bible helps to confirm the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The following testimony of Romans, Greeks, and Jews is helpful because these men are simply telling the facts without any religious devotion to them. Josephus (AD 37-100) Josephus was a Jewish historian born just a few years after Jesus died. His most celebrated passage, called the “Testimonium Flavianum” says: “Now there was about this time... Read more

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2020-03-30T19:03:39-04:00

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Resurrection #6: 8 Circumstantial Reasons to Believe in Jesus’ Resurrection

Last updated on: March 30, 2020 at 7:03 pm By Mark Driscoll

Effects have causes. Jesus’ resurrection is no exception, as is evident by eight effects caused by it. Together, they are compelling circumstantial evidence for Jesus’ resurrection. Further, for those wanting to deny Jesus’ resurrection, the burden of proof remains on them to account for these multiple effects with a reasonable cause. Craig explains, “Anyone who denies this explanation is rationally obligated to produce a more plausible cause of Jesus’ resurrection and to explain how it happened.”62 He goes on to... Read more

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2020-03-30T18:58:49-04:00

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Resurrection #5: 10 Things the Bible Says About Jesus’ Resurrection

Last updated on: March 30, 2020 at 6:58 pm By Mark Driscoll

The biblical evidence for Jesus’ resurrection is compelling and can be briefly summarized in ten points. Each of these points is consistent, and together they reveal that the Bible is emphatically and repeatedly clear on the fact of Jesus’ resurrection. Jesus’ resurrection was prophesied in advance. Roughly seven hundred years before the birth of Jesus, the prophet Isaiah promised that Jesus would be born into humble circumstances to live a simple life, die a brutal death, and then rise to... Read more

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2020-03-30T18:47:40-04:00

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Resurrection #4: How Did Ancient Pagans View the Afterlife?

Last updated on: March 30, 2020 at 6:47 pm By Mark Driscoll

Noted historian and professor Edwin Yamauchi has spoken to this matter with great clarity based upon his lifetime of scholarly research.28 Yamauchi has said that there is no possibility that the idea of a resurrection was borrowed because there is no definitive evidence for the teaching of a deity resurrection in any of the mystery religions prior to the second century.29 In fact, it seems that other religions and spiritualities stole the idea of a resurrection from Christians! For example,... Read more

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2020-04-08T12:54:08-04:00

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Resurrection #3: How Did Old Testament Jews View the Afterlife?

Last updated on: April 8, 2020 at 12:54 pm By Mark Driscoll

Judaism didn’t believe in the resurrection of an individual from death in the middle of history. Rather, their understanding was that their entire nation alone would rise from death together at the end of history. William Lane Craig’s lengthy studies of the resurrection of Jesus Christ culminated in the publishing of two scholarly books on the issue.26 Craig asserts: “Jewish belief always concerned a resurrection at the end of the world, not a resurrection in the middle of history…The resurrection... Read more

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2020-03-30T18:46:06-04:00

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Resurrection #2: How Did Ancient People View the Afterlife?

Last updated on: March 30, 2020 at 6:46 pm By Mark Driscoll

It is commonly purported by some that the entire idea of a bodily resurrection was in fact not a novel idea but one borrowed from other ancient philosophies and spiritualities. Wright has done a painstakingly exhaustive and revolutionary study of ancient beliefs regarding resurrection that is incredibly helpful. Most books on the resurrection of Jesus begin by studying the Gospel narratives and then work outwardly from this vantage point to an analysis of the appropriate pagan and Jewish sources found... Read more

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2020-03-30T18:42:08-04:00

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Resurrection #1: What Is It? What Is It Not?

Last updated on: March 30, 2020 at 6:42 pm By Mark Driscoll

Jesus said…“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.” – John 1:25-26 If Jesus is dead, then Christianity is dead. If Jesus is alive, then Christianity is alive. Paul himself declared as much in 1 Corinthians 15:17: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.” Apart from the resurrection of... Read more

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2019-10-09T19:36:09-04:00

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How was Jesus in the grave 3 days if he died Friday and rose Sunday?

Last updated on: October 9, 2019 at 7:36 pm By Mark Driscoll

The Bible predicted that Jesus would be in the grave for three days. However, Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose on Easter Sunday… If you are confused about how that adds up to three, you aren’t alone. Today, Pastor Mark answers this common question as we get ready for Easter. Read more

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2020-03-23T16:52:53-04:00

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8 Things Got Daniel Through His Crisis and Will Get You Through This Crisis

Last updated on: March 23, 2020 at 4:52 pm By Mark Driscoll

Daniel 10:10-19 – And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly loved…Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words…” [Daniel replied] “…now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.” Again one having the... Read more

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2020-03-23T16:52:22-04:00

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Why Praying and Waiting is Exhausting

Last updated on: March 23, 2020 at 4:52 pm By Mark Driscoll

Daniel 10:10-14 – And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you.” And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand... Read more

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