No, The Resurrection Is Not A Historical Fact - Part 2 - Responding to Trent Doherty on Pints With Aquinas

Is the resurrection of Jesus actually a historical fact or does the argument only work if you begin with Christian assumptions?

In part two of our deep dive into the historical case for the Resurrection, Colin and I examine some of the most popular arguments used by Christian apologists: the claim that the apostles wouldn’t die for a lie, the supposed eyewitness accounts of the risen Jesus, the 500 witnesses mentioned by Paul, the early creed in 1 Corinthians 15, and attempts to use probability and Bayes’ theorem to argue that the Resurrection is historically likely.

We look at what we actually know about the deaths of the apostles, how the resurrection narratives developed across the Gospels, what Paul does—and doesn’t—claim to have witnessed, and whether early belief in the Resurrection is the same thing as evidence that it actually happened.

00:00 Recap Minimal Facts
02:20 Escaping Apologetics Maze
03:55 Apostles Die for Lie
11:11 Roman Guards Doubts
24:10 500 Witnesses Problem
26:49 Women at the Tomb Motif
29:08 Doubting Thomas and Belief
31:32 Memory and Legend Growth
35:46 Mythic Tropes and Other Gospels
39:57 Paul and the 500 Witnesses
50:25 Visions and Bereavement Experiences
54:48 Skepticism About 500
56:52 Pauline Creed Timeline
01:02:37 Memory And Mythmaking
01:09:44 God Assumption Debate
01:11:20 Additive Evidence Claim
01:13:35 What Resurrection Means

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