Here is my CORE view of Easter morning, based on a careful historical investigation of our sources. This is not the typical “skeptical” or “atheistic” view of things–but a careful analysis of how faith that Jesus was “raised from the dead” arose among his followers–not in Jerusalem on Easter, but…
In this fourth of the mini-series for Holy Week I take things from the death of Jesus to his double burial, and the bare beginnings of resurrection faith as hinted at by Paul. In the 5th and final episode I will examine how resurrection faith move from a glorified spiritual…
This might sound at first like a trivial or even silly question. Believe it or not, it has profound implications, as I show in this short video. Christian apologists insist on a physical body walking out of the tomb, but our earliest evidence shows clearly that was NOT the original…
Millions of believing Christians, as well as theologians and historians, are convinced that the earliest faith in Jesus’ resurrection had to do with the assertion that his dead body was revived in a tomb–and that he walked out of that tomb on the third day after his death, as a…
Here I present a critical historical reading of all our major sources that narrative an account of what happened Easter morning. My intent is to provide a plausible scenario as to how, when, and where did faith in Jesus’ resurrection originate. Here is a textual analysis to supplement the video…
Those who have read my books or this blog for some years now will know this basic position I have advocated for the past few years on “What Really Happened Easter Morning.” My understanding allows for both the Talpiot tomb–or some other tomb in Jerusalem–as the final resting place for…
Keep in mind, when I use the term “viral,” I am not talking about hundreds of thousands of views. I have several videos with those high numbers but only over time. For me “viral” means I put something up, it instantly jumps to #1 in my Video posting YouTube history–and…
In the aftermath of Jodi Magness’s recent lecture on the “Burials of James, Jesus, and the Talpiot Tombs” in Bart Ehrman’s course “Archaeoolgy in the Time of Jesus” one thing was clear to me that I had not fully realized. Most treatments of the data on the Talpiot tomb research…
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the FLESH, and the life everlasting. Amen. Πιστεύω εις το Πνευμα το `Αγιον, αγίαν καθολικην εκκλησίαν, αγίων κοινωνίαν, άφεσιν `αμαρτιων, σαρκος ανάστασιν, ξωήν αιώνιον. Αμήν. In the original Greek…
In this ninth of my series on” Death, Afterlife, and the Future,” I consider the thesis of the late great Oscar Cullmann who argued that Christianity–anciently and down into our own time–has largely lost the view of “resurrection of the dead” as declared by Jesus in our gospel sources and…