North Carolina religious Professor Bert Ehrman

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@jongarvey

No, I think there will be fewer , if by that you mean his religious skepticism. My reason is that, on the account of his peers and the publically available history of NT criticism, he’s already well behind the curve (though not so far behind as the mythicists, who aren’t taken seriously by the majority of historians).

That’s right. His work relies on pseudo-history. One of the big surprises of historical research into 1st Century Palestine is how much it established the historical bone fides of the Resurrection. Christians were really concerned by the “Jesus Seminary” but it just backfired.

Studying the historical Jesus drew attention and scholarly rigor here, and uncovered even more evidence. I’ve pointed this out to you before @Patrick. One of these days, take a look at the evidence: Peace Be With You - #3 by swamidass.

@swamidass

Do you have any evidence of your pronouncement?

Yes, I do have evidence. Here is my summary:

www.veritas.org/evidence-easter-scientists-list/

But listen to Dr. Gary Habermas talk about the minimal facts approach:

The Resurrection Argument That Changed a Generation of Scholars - Gary Habermas…

Dr. NT Wright takes a historian’s perspective:

http://ntwrightpage.com/2016/07/12/christian-origins-and-the-resurrection-of-jesus-the-resurrection-of-jesus-as-a-historical-problem/

The thing is that there is just a massive amount of evidence, much more than I can share briefly with you. Its almost as if an intelligence beyond our time is revealing Himself to us in history.

The Resurrection is quite a bit like evolution. We have to be careful about misidentifying our personal ignorance of evidence as lack of evidence all together. The two are not the same thing. There is a lot of evidence for evolution, just as there is a lot of evidence for the Resurrection.