Minimal facts of Resurrection

5 minimal facts of resurrection: 

1- Jesus was killed by crucifixion: confirmed even by john Dominic Crossan, James tabor, Ludemann, Bart Ehrman, Tacitus, Josephus, Lucian, Mara bar-Serapion, Talmud, and 4 Gospels.

2- Jesus’ disciples believed that he rose and appeared to them: Paul Testimony(55 A.D from Peter and James) & oral traditions and works of early church(Acts sermons of Peter and Paul+4 Gospels+Alexander+Clement+Polycarp+Ireneus+Tertullian+Ignatius)

3- The Conversion of the church persecutor Paul (Acts- Epistles)

4- The conversion of the skeptic James(Jesus’ half-brother): said by Mark& John, and Paul said in 1Cor 15 that Jesus Appeared to James, then he became a Christian and also a Leader after believing in Jesus’ messiahship, then he died as a martyr.

5- Jesus’ tomb was empty: 3 strands of Evidence(1- Jerusalem: he died and rose there and also Christianity started there& 2- Enemy attestation: they thought that his body may be stolen from disciples in writings of Matthew, Tertullian, and Justin& 3- Women Testimony: that they saw Jesus first and their testimony in the 1st century and even their worth was so despised and refused from Jewish and Roman Culture.

 ~ Gary Habermas