The Big Conversation – Episode 1 | Season 5

The rise of Christianity has shaped the modern world, but are its historical origins best explained in purely naturalistic terms, or the explanation the first followers gave – that Jesus had risen from the dead?
 
New Testament historian Bart Ehrman doesn’t believe in the miraculous claims of the New Testament, including the resurrection of Jesus. New Testament scholar Justin Bass argues in his book ‘The Bedrock of Christianity’ for a number of facts concerning the death and resurrection of Jesus, that point to its truth. They debate scripture, history and the resurrection.

Chapters
00:00 Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
03:31 The bedrock facts for the Resurrection
07:32 Did the disciples actually see Jesus alive post Crucifixion?
12:45 Bart Ehrman challenges the eyewitness evidence
18:47 What about visions of the Virgin Mary?
23:10 Why a resurrected Messiah was so unexpected
30:31 What did the disciples really experience?
34:22 Pauls conversion: vision, hallucination or risen Jesus?
36:09 Can a historian ever believe in miracles?
43:47 Did Christianitys explosive growth prove snything?
01:00:07 Muslims seeing Jesus in dreams and visions
01:10:25 Bart Ehrman: what evidence would actually convince me?

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