Explaining Away Jesus’ Resurrection: The Recent Revival of Hallucination Theories
By Dr. Gary Habermas Abstract to the article: After almost a century of virtual dormancy, a number of naturalistic alternative hypotheses regarding Jesus’ resurrection have appeared in recent publications. Similar to the situation at the end of the Nineteenth Century, hallucination and related subjective approaches are again the most popular among critics. We will survey […]
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9 years ago | Read MoreJesus’ Resurrection and Contemporary Criticism: An Apologetic (Part 2)
By Dr. Gary Habermas An excerpt from the article: …The chief purpose for the remainder of this essay will be to determine, by continuing both to investigate and utilize critical methodology, if the cause of the original eyewitnesses’ faith can be further ascertained. If such verification is found, it will corroborate the earlier apologetic (which […]
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9 years ago | Read MoreJesus’ Resurrection and Contemporary Criticism: An Apologetic (Part 1)
By Dr. Gary Habermas Here is an excerpt from the article: …Therefore, considering the issue of Jesus’ resurrection is of prime importance. I agree with those who assert that the historicity of this event is a major question, for it is upon this aspect that the truthfulness of Christian theology depends. Repeated treatments and evaluations […]
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9 years ago | Read More“Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 6: Thrusting Out, Driving Out, and Dispossessing the Canaanites Not Annihilating Them”
By Dr. Mark Foreman A legend is told of a wealthy Texas rancher who owned a sprawling expanse of land in western Texas. It was hundreds of acres is size and stretched out far beyond the horizon. On this land he raised cattle that would annually be driven north to Abilene where it would be […]
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9 years ago | Read MoreParadigm Shift: A Challenge to Naturalism
By Dr. Gary Habermas “Idealism was the dominant philosophy in the Western world in the early 20th century, a holdover from its prominence in the previous century. Stressing the metaphysical reality of mind or spirit and the epistemological centrality of ideas, idealism stood in stark contrast to naturalism, which took its position as the dominant […]
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9 years ago | Read MoreEvidence for the Historical Jesus: Is the Jesus of History the Christ of Faith?
By Dr. Gary Habermas “Abstract: The search for the historical Jesus is a hot topic in both popular and academic circles today and has drawn a lot of attention from national magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. Further, the media has given an undue amount of attention to the outlandish […]
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9 years ago | Read MoreMailbag: The Devil Made Us Smarter?
By Dr. David Baggett A reader of the site [MoralApologetics.com] asked for help responding to this: “The devil gave humans critical thinking which God didn’t want us to have. God wanted us to not eat from the tree of knowledge so we could be thought-slaves for eternity, but the devil did us a favor and […]
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9 years ago | Read MoreKeeping the Moral Demand and the Christian Hope for the Good Life
By: Jonathan Pruitt If we think that moral realism is true, and we live in a morally rich world then some unsettling issues arise. If, for example, humans really are intrinsically valuable, then something like Kant’s categorical imperative must be required of us. That is, if humans really are rational agents, then they ought to […]
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9 years ago | Read MoreNaturalism, Christianity, and the Best Explanation of Moral Goodness
By Jonathan Pruitt In this essay I suggest that Christian theism better explains the existence of moral goodness than does naturalism. But what is goodness? One way to answer this question is by ostension. We can point to things that are good as examples. If we asked a child, “What is water?” she would not […]
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