Two Christian Experts on Jesus’ Resurrection Admit There Is Not Much Evidence

They had to evoke faith to believe in Jesus’ resurrection

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The majority of Christians are not scholars. We should not expect them to be anyway. Apart from their own experience, their knowledge about their religion usually comes from their pastors, who learned it from their professors in the seminary or other Bible scholars.

Therefore, when lay Christians say there is strong evidence for Jesus’ resurrection, what they usually mean is that they trust Christian scholars who do research on Jesus’ resurrection.

For this reason, it is important for Christians to know that two leading resurrection scholars, both profess to be Christians, actually admit there is no compelling evidence for Jesus’ resurrection.

They are Dale Allison, Ph.D., and Michael Licona, Ph.D. They both published academic works discussing Jesus’ resurrection.

Sean McDowell interviewed them recently, and the video is available on YouTube. The quotes I provided in this article came from the interview transcript.

So what exactly did they say?

There could be embellishments that were added to the resurrection accounts