Is the Resurrection of Jesus a Historical Fact? Atheists Respond to EVERY Resurrection Claim - Part 1 - (Trent Dougherty on Pints With Aquinas Reaction)

Can history actually establish that Jesus rose from the dead?

In this episode of Atheist Imprimatur, Colin and I take on one of the central arguments in Christian apologetics: that the Resurrection isn't merely something Christians believe by faith, but something we have good historical reasons to accept as fact.

We examine the “minimal facts” approach associated with Gary Habermas, claims about the empty tomb, eyewitness testimony, early Christian belief, and the role our assumptions about God and miracles play in evaluating the evidence.

More importantly, we ask a basic question that often gets lost in apologetics: What can historians actually establish—and where does historical evidence end and faith begin?

This is Part 1 of our very long attempt to answer that question.

00:00 Why This Resurrection Video
07:28 Apologetics as Reassurance
11:13 Faith Versus Evidence
13:06 Appeal to Authority Problems
23:22 God Exists Then Miracles
27:42 Supernatural Explanations Spiral
32:23 Is God Really 50/50?
34:11 Historians and Resurrection Claims
42:16 Easter Meditation Not Proof
44:38 Habermas and Minimal Facts
52:38 Three Es and Empty Tomb
56:46 Sherlock Holmes Historiography
01:00:57 Empty Tomb Sources and Context
01:04:17 Empty Tomb Objections
01:08:42 Why Not Produce the Body
01:10:53 Acts and Early Movement
01:13:35 Roman Religious Tolerance
01:16:17 Three Explanations Critique
01:21:35 Tomb Worship Skepticism
01:25:19 They Wouldnt Die for a Lie

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