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Circularity and Evidence for Jesus’ Resurrection

Hello Dr. Craig, I am a second year undergrad student at UCLA and have been an avid reader of your work since high school. I cannot express to you how powerful it is the work you are doing for the Kingdom. The example you have set in glorifying the Lord with ...

arguments for the existence of god, christian evidences, empty tomb, jesus christ, natural theology, resurrection of jesus

Evidence for Jesus' Resurrection

William Lane Craig sets out the historical and Biblical evidence that leads to the conclusion that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Audience Q&A follows the main presentation.Filmed in Southampton Civic Hall, this event was part of the UK Reasonable Faith ...

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Jacob Kremer on Jesus’ Empty Tomb

Re: The "fact" of the Empty Tomb based on out-of-date scholarship? A friend of mine and some like Richard Carrier are arguing that your claim that the majority of critical scholarship accept the fact of the empty tomb is out of date based as it is on the work...

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The Witness of the Pre-Pauline Tradition to the Empty Tomb

Dr. Craig, I have a few questions regarding some of your arguments in your article "The Historicity of the Empty Tomb of Jesus". My questions center around your claims that we can establish that Paul believed and knew about the empty tomb. First off, you dis...

empty tomb, historical jesus, paul the apostle, pauline theology, resurrection of jesus, third day motif

Independent Sources for Jesus’ Burial and Empty Tomb

Dr. Craig, I am having a difficult time understanding something that you have said with respect to the historicity of Jesus' resurrection. You say that the 4 gospels are "independent" attestations of events and therefore things like Jesus' burial in a...

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Jesus’ Body

Hi. I was wondering if you could clear up a small conundrum. In first Corinthians 15 Paul explains that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god. So how then, if jesus was resurrected in the flesh, did he go to be with the father in heaven after the r...

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On an Argument for the Empty Tomb

My question comes from a website that tries to rebut your statements. Is there evidence outside the New Testament given before the 50 days after the Pentecost? Given that people in Jesus’ time did not have the medical equipment we do now, does the follow...

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If Jesus’ Resurrection Was Historical, Why Not More Jewish Conversions?

Dear Dr. Craig, As a Jewish person from Israel who has read the New Testament and developed a sincere interest in the historical claims of Christianity, I am writing to you after having watched many of your lectures and debates, as well as those of Dr. Gary H...

empty tomb, historical jesus, jewish beliefs in the resurrection, jewish objections, messiah, postmortem appearances

Goff, Allison, and Jesus’ Resurrection

Dear Dr Craig, I enjoyed your recent dialogue with Philip Goff on Goff's apparently heretical view of God on the  Justin Brierley's (The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God) Podcast. During the dialogue, Goff brought about a quote from Dale...

ascension, empty tomb, postmortem appearances, resurrection of jesus

Jewish Reservations about Jesus

Dear Dr. Craig, I'm a big admirer of your work as a philosopher, theologian and New Testament scholar, and thank God for the work you continue to do in providing a case for our "reasonable faith". Thanks to the work of Christian philosophers like you, I&#...

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Ehrman’s Objections to the Women’s Discovery of the Empty Tomb

Dear Dr. Craig, Your answer to Q and A #676 about the conspiracy theory and your excellent refutation of that outdated theory got me thinking about another issue. It pertains to the case for the historicity of the empty tomb. One of the powerful pieces of ev...

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Shall We Resurrect the Conspiracy Theory?

Dear Dr Craig, I am a huge admirer of your work, and I have been for quite a few years. I will always be very grateful to you for all that you do. For about ten years or so, I was convinced that Jesus had risen from the dead, and that his resurrection wasn&#...

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