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historical Jesus

Debating the Resurrection of Jesus with the Godless Engineer

August 26, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: debate, Godless Engineer, historical Jesus, resurrection

Are Biblical Scholars Constrained by the Doctrinal Statements?

August 20, 2020 by Randal

Today, someone who watched my debate with David Smalley emailed me to ask if I could provide a more fulsome reply to his suggestion in the debate that New Testament scholars draw positive conclusions about Jesus (e.g. his existence, resurrection, etc.) because they are constrained by the requirements of institutional doctrinal statements. Here is my […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: academic freedom, historical Jesus, scholarship

Why Pinecreek Doug’s Flying Man Can’t Get Off the Ground

May 30, 2020 by Randal

In this video, I explain how Pinecreek Doug conflates psychological and epistemological questions with his Flying Man Thought Experiment. And for that reason, his critique of 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 cannot get off the ground.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, historical Jesus, Pinecreek Doug, resurrection

The Jesus Creed Meets the Flying Man Creed

May 29, 2020 by Randal

Atheist YouTuber and provocateur Pinecreek Doug has produced a “Flying Man Creed” which appears to be an attempt to undermine the creed of 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 by way of reductio ad absurdum or a slippery slope. Alas, Doug’s Flying Man Creed cannot even get off the ground.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: historical Jesus, Pinecreek Doug, reductio ad absurdum, resurrection, slippery slope

If Jesus has not been raised, is our faith in vain?

July 17, 2018 by Randal

Back in November, 2017, I posted a survey on Twitter asking if Christianity requires the historical resurrection of Jesus. A couple days ago, I posted a similar survey with a few notable differences. First, while the original survey was directed to everyone, this survey was targeted at Christians; second, while the original survey only had […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: historical Jesus, Jesus, resurrection

Bauckham’s Exorcism: A Review of Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

June 4, 2018 by Randal

Richard Bauckham. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017), 680 pp. We’ve all played the telephone game in our youth. Whisper a sentence in your neighbor’s ear and they whisper it in their neighbor’s ear and so on around the circle. We also all know how that ends: […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical studies, Gospels, historical Jesus, Richard Bauckham

A Family Defense of the Resurrection of Jesus

March 2, 2018 by Randal Rauser

This article is based on a chapter in my 2013 book God or Godless, a collection of twenty short debates coauthored with atheist John Loftus. What would it take to persuade you that your brother is the long-expected messiah?  Quite a lot, I suspect. You grew up with the guy. You saw him scrape his […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, God or Godless, historical Jesus, James, resurrection

“There is no evidence for…” On the unqualified and indefensible claims of bad apologists

September 22, 2016 by Randal

A few months ago I was approached by an individual after a speaking event. “Do you believe in evolution?” he asked. It was a surprising question given that it had nothing to do with my topic. I replied that on matters outside my area I defer to the consensus of experts unless I have a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, evolution, historical Jesus, science, Victor Stenger

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