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History and Resurrection

History and Resurrection. The New Testament itself claims that the events recorded in the gospels and Acts can be attested by “eyewitnesses” ( Acts 1:1-3 ). The earliest Scriptures were Paul’s epistles: Galatians (48), 1 and 2 Thessalonians (50),

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History and Resurrection

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  1. History and Resurrection The New Testament itself claims that the events recorded in the gospels and Acts can be attested by “eyewitnesses” (Acts 1:1-3). The earliest Scriptures were Paul’s epistles: Galatians (48), 1 and 2 Thessalonians (50), Philippians (54), 1 and 2 Corinthians (54-56), Romans (57), Colossians, Philemon, and Ephesians (c. 60), the Pastoral Epistles (64) [1] [1] F. F. Bruce Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  2. History and Resurrection Gospels and Acts: Mark, written in Rome in the early 60s, Matthew (85-90), Luke-Acts (80-85), * The epistles of John and Revelation (before 96), James and Jude (close of 1st century), Hebrews and the epistles of Peter (before 65). *F.F. Bruce gives earlier dates for Luke-Acts (60-70), Matthew (after 70 AD) and Mark written after Matthew Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  3. History and Resurrection The Rylands Fragment (c. AD 125) Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  4. History and Resurrection • a priori • A commonly understood starting point: Arithmetic is a priori. • a posteriori • Truth discovered through observation Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  5. History and Resurrection There is little room for doubt that the NewTestament documents are reliable and historical primary sources. Only those with an a priori (such as the Jesus Seminar fellows) who would disallow any possibility of the supernatural would dare contradict this conclusion. But logic would require those who disallow the reliability of the New Testament to be consistent with the rest of our sources for the history of antiquity. Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  6. History and Resurrection The Biblical Manuscript Evidence As of 1980, we have 5,386 separate Greek manuscripts which include early fragments (such as the Rylands fragment which dates just 30 years after the original!), uncials (manuscripts written in uppercase Greek letters and bound in book form), and minuscules (manuscripts in lowercase Greek letters). Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  7. History and Resurrection Classical Evidence Manuscript Comparison Author When Written Earliest Copy Time Span No. of Copies Caesar 100-44 BC AD 900 1,000 years 10 Plato 427-347 BC AD 900 1,200 years 7 Thucydides 460-400 BC AD 900 1,300 years 8 Herodotus 480-425 BC AD 900 1,300 years 8 Homer 900 BC 400 BC 500 years 643 N. Testament AD 40-100 AD 125 25 years Over 24,000 Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  8. History and Resurrection • Facts need to be put together in patterns. This is interpretation • The good historian insists that interpretation relate to the facts. That is interpretation is secondary to facts. • The relationship between fact and interpretation is like a foot and a shoe (facts are the foot, interpretation is like a shoe). • Find a shoe that fits the foot!! Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  9. History and Resurrection The Inductive Method What is the inductive method? • It is fitting pieces together to form a pattern allowing one to reach a generalization based on evidence. It depends on what we already know to be true (a posteriori). “The meerkat is closely related to the suricat. The suricat thrives on beetle larvae. Therefore, probably the meerkat thrives on beetle larvae.” Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  10. History and Resurrection How do we know that Jesus arose from the grave? • If Jesus didn’t arise we would be inclined to pay little attention to what He said. Paul says as much in 1 Corinthians 15:17-19 • Paul speaks of the resurrection as an historical event and a confirmation of his message (Acts 26:25-26) • Jesus was raised bodily (1 Corinthians 15:35-44 ) Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  11. History and Resurrection Testing Historical Hypotheses • The hypothesis, together with other true statements, must imply further statements describing present, observable data. 2. The hypothesis must have greater explanatory scope (that is, imply a greater variety of observable data) than rival hypotheses. Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  12. History and Resurrection • The hypothesis must have greater explanatory power (that is, make the observable data more probable) than rival hypotheses. • The hypothesis must be more plausible (that is, be implied by a greater variety of accepted truths, and its negation implied by fewer accepted truths) than rival hypotheses. • hypothesis must be less ad hoc (that is, include fewer new suppositions about the past not already implied by existing knowledge) than rival hypotheses. Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

  13. History and Resurrection • The hypothesis must be disconfirmed by fewer accepted beliefs (that is, when conjoined with accepted truths, imply fewer false statements) than rival hypotheses. • The hypothesis must so exceed its rivals in fulfilling conditions (2) through (6) that there is little chance of a rival hypothesis, after further investigation, exceeding it in meeting these conditions. Copywrite 2005 Jim Beasley

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