4. . The early Jews have changed the adorable Name Jeshua, as He was originally called in Hebrew, in Yeshu. He is said to have “suffered the extreme penalty,” obviously alluding to the Roman method of execution known as crucifixion.

On the other hand, we do not appear to have comparably good reasons for so regarding the appearances of the angel Moroni. in psychology from Baylor University, a Th.M. [It] was impressed on them by their original lawgiver that they are all brothers, from the moment that they are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws. Sadducees and and Pharisees came to Jesus and ask for sign from heaven and He refused to give that they asked for, “A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. As C. S. Lewis observed, such persons are not sincerely going before God with their heartfelt concerns and pleading with Him for help and resolution. Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus, by William lane Craig – – http://www.amazon.com/Assessing-Testament-Evidence-Historicity-Resurrection/dp/B004QB7FKM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426879098&sr=1-1&keywords=william+lane+craig+on+historicity+of+jesus%27+resurrection, 2.

Rhodes writes, “Conflicting reports state that he and the other witnesses never saw the actual engraved plates, only something covered with a cloth.” He also states, “Whitmer, Harris, and Cowdery all ended up leaving the (Mormon) church.” He notes that Harris did return much later, but “in the interim he had said that several other churches were true” (See Rhodes, 55). .
I would bet good money that the answer is: evangelical The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Funerary epithets in Egypt.(26-1702)." . Based on cumulative human experience, it is much more probable that the early Christian belief in the resurrection of Jesus was due to one disciple’s bereavement hallucination (probably Simon Peter’s) than a once in history reanimation of a three-day-brain-dead corpse. The over 5000 Greek manuscripts also cover, Just 6.29% of these 5000 distinct pieces of evidence have been dated before the 9th century and only 48 supposedly predate our oldest intact Bibles. The remainder of the “appearances” of Jesus listed in the Early Creed of First Corinthians 15 could simply have been static images (illusions) something we see today with alleged group sightings of the Virgin Mary. The more you understand science the more the possibility increases for A GOD. Second, their worship was directed to Christ, demonstrating that they firmly believed in His divinity. This James, says Josephus, was “the brother of Jesus the so-called Christ.”{14} F.F. for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. Schlomo Pines and David Flusser…stated, it is quite plausible that none of the arguments against Jesus of Nazareth was put to death by crucifixion.

Modern scholars are not fooled. It is an Experience of grace. Moreover, we have no reason to suspect that scribes altered writings from Homer to support their particular religious dogma. Hutchinson (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. But if we make allowances for this, what might such charges imply about Jesus? . It is like a cup of coffee that spills. 2. First, we see that Christians regularly met on a certain fixed day for worship. 1994; 87:17-28. Mark alludes to the Siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple.

https://youtu.be/HS0WSEuousE?list=PLt3Pke412qVfwwdCHRjc2l7h13hDJhPgD.

As the title of my article indicates, I was only intending to provide a bit of “Ancient Evidence for Jesus from Non-Christian Sources.” I was not intending to write an article dealing in detail with the historical reliability of the New Testament. In the case of the Talmud, the earliest period of compilation occurred between A.D. So if this conjecture is incorrect, I’m completely okay with that. In 1971, Professor Schlomo Pines published a study on this passage. But suppose that Moroni was the one who appeared to Whitmer, Harris and Cowdery.

Moreover we have evidence there was editorial 'meddling' as shown with textual variants, interpolations and rearranged passage sequences.[183][184][185][186][187][188][189][101]. Third, Epiphanius in Panarion 29 (4th century CE) expressly states "this group did not name themselves after Christ or with Jesus’ own name, but Natzraya." . The veracity of the Christian religion rises or falls on the veracity of the Resurrection and the veracity of the Resurrection rises or falls on the historicity of the alleged post-death appearances of Jesus to his followers.

Believe what you want, but I can see there’s no getting through to you. Much more could be said in defense of the traditional authorship of the four New Testament Gospels. . Apparently you have already been there and done that. Mark 1: 4 par.). It is also difficult to believe he would have flatly asserted that Jesus was the Christ, especially when he later refers to Jesus as “the so-called” Christ. No one asks you to have faith to believe the fact claims of history or science. Dodd, C. H. (1938). Luke explicitly tells us that many others before him had composed written accounts of the events of Jesus’ life. But it seems to me that a good case can be made for believing the passage to be at least generally trustworthy historically.

Diodorus Siculus in his Bibliotheca historica (between 60 and 30 BCE) says Sarapis is another name for Osiris, Dionysus, Pluto, Ammon, Zeus, and Pan depending on the sect one is dealing with. It seems to me that the documents can be both historically reliable and religiously truthful. Further It’s not as if Rome or the Jewish Sanhedrin had to write extensively about a so-called Messiah doing lots of miracles. The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Has Laid the Case for an Historical Jesus to Rest, Table: Comparing the Gospel of Peter with the Canonical Gospels, On the Origin of Jesus by Means of Mythical Propagation, Griffin, Bruce W. (1996), "The aleographical Dating of P-46" with 2005 email, Acts and Christian Beginnings: The Acts Seminar Report; Polebridge Press, 2013, Geographical Errors Within the New Testament, James Tabor (08/14/2014) The Quest for the Historical Paul, Troxel, Ronald L. (2010) Dating the Pauline Epistles, "Which way is up? . II, X:96, cited in Habermas, The Historical Jesus, 199. That would not have been hard to do (unless there wasn’t one). 17. But how does this impugn the historical reliability of these documents? 15:6). None of them really work. Collective human experience would suggest that this is very likely what happened in the first century with the early Christians. . I hesitate to approve your post since you did not do so, but to show that we have nothing to hide or fear from alternative scholarship, I will. Close homophones like lavatory (a bathroom) and laboratory (a lab) show the regional issue as some people pronounce the 'v' as a 'b' creating confusion between the two words. One item I would like to mention about absolute proof seemingly demanded by unbelievers. We all come from Source. Beginning in the second-century, various “infancy gospels” arose, attempting to tell about this period of Jesus’ life (e.g. His personal website is michaelgleghorn.com. His conduct was good and (he) was known to be virtuous.

If Paul was able to convince first century Jews in Asia Minor that he had seen a resurrected Jesus based on a “heavenly vision”, then Simon Peter was surely capable of convincing first century Jews (including the other disciples) in Palestine that he had seen the resurrected Jesus, even though his experience had really been an hallucination. There might be open-minded interest to know of another source of information about Jesus/Yehoshua, he being a non-named fourth-density incarnate on Earth, known as a Wanderer, who incarnated into an entity on Earth that was named Jesus/Yehoshua, his sole desire to incarnate on Earth to become a martyr, as he was teaching, after doing much learning of Yahudism and other “religions,” the true concept of love of which he know is the entire source of creation, that creation coming from the One, the Source, the Infinite Creator, not the god of the bible which is known as “The Lord” by Christians or, if paying attention to the Hebrew, the YHWH aka Yahowah, a war god coming from a group of entities of a “negative” realm, that of service to self and, thus, promotion of slavery based on commands aka orders. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Prmitive Christianity", Jean Danielou, p. 95-96, 1958, Mentor edition 1962, Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, iv. Or can they not record history reliably? Yet it cannot be shown that either person actually existed. Historians Epictetus and Aelius Aristides, who both recorded events and people in Palestine. Χρησήρ, -η̃ρος, ό (fr. These citations from Irenaeus are sufficient, I think, to show that Edward has erred in claiming that Irenaeus rejected the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. For Matthew would have been an eyewitness of many of these events. William Walker (2001) Interpolations in the Pauline Letters Sheffield Academic Press, Rainer Reuter 'Introduction to Synoptic Work on the New Testament Epistles', Schniedewind, William M. (2005) "Problems of Paleographic Dating of Inscriptions" in Thomas Levy, Thomas Higham (ed) (2014), "Not in every place, brethren, are sacrifices offered continually, either in answer to prayer, or concerning sin and neglect, but. The passage reads as follows: “At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. Because so much has happened, so much has been discovered, in just the last ten years—much more so the last half century—that the only expert opinion worth citing now, is one that is based on having evaluated all that new information.

Χρη̃̃σις –ιος, Att.

We can’t know.”. The Early Creed gives no details whatsoever of these appearances. Tacitus and Josephus say this occurred under Pontius Pilate. We read that he was a wise man who performed surprising feats.