In the final lecture in my Bible Study series on the historical evidence for Jesus' Resurrection, we look at 4 objections skeptics present as Negative evidence supposedly falsifying the Resurrection hypothesis;i) Preservation Problems with errors in the Manuscript Copiesii) Eyewitness Testimony/Memory is Unreliableiii) Gospel Contradictions on Jesus' death and Resurrectioniv) Miracles are Improbable/Impossible via David HumeRSM Blog (with my Slides) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

I read Lydia McGrew's emails verifying that what I called my "Bayes-ish" approach is mathematically correct even though the way I describe what I'm calculating is inaccurate. She also responds to the foolish notion that the prior prob for any miracle like the Resurrection is 1/infinity because God can do a miracle in an infinite amount of different ways (as per Digital Gnosis and James Fodor).RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/shroud-wars-battling-10-hours-of-shroud-skepticism-parts-1-2-with-otangelo-grasso-james-fodor-digital-gnosis/

Lydia McGrew returns to tackle David Kemball-Cooks objections to her 2009 Blackwell Companion paper on Jesus Resurrection and Bayes Theorem.

This is the final round between the two and it went extra long, so enjoy :)RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2024/03/31/the-resurrection-of-christ-debating-skeptic-dr-david-kemball-cook/

& ALSO,

https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/debating-jesus-resurrection-with-lydia-mcgrew-vs-david-kemball-cook/

I was invited to guest star on Biblical Unitarian Carlos Xavier's YouTube channel (thehumanjesus.org) to be grilled on my own Trinitarian understanding.

Originally, I wanted to do a debate where I had time to prepare properly, but circumstances didn't allow for the debate and thus we did a Grill-a-Christian type format instead which isn't ideal for me to present the best case since I'm not the best at "off-the-cuff defenses", but it was still edifying and fun in its own right.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7-qTaEAV7M

In the 5th Lecture we finish our assessment of 4 more Skeptical hypotheses ranging from the Illusion/substitution theory, hallucination hypothesis, objective visions/ghosts and finally, the infamous Buddhist notion of Jesus and the Rainbow bodies! All of them fail meaning the Christian Resurrection hypothesis is clearly the best explanation for the 9 proven historical facts we learned about in Part 3.RSM Blog (with my slides for free) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

In this episode, the Vulture invites on noted math expert, John Elias, to speak on his research on the various Gematria or Numerical Patterns found in the Bible. We go into detail on methodology and how to distinguish between the more meaningful patterns vs. what John calls the more common and often times fallacious "free-association" patterns as is typically found and appealed to in other religious books like the Quran and/or even non-religious literature like Moby Dick or the Phone Book.Bonus- For my fellow Pro-Shroud fans, towards the end of the discussion, John claims to have found his interesting numerical patterns as divine supporting evidence on the Shroud of Turin as well!!!RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/numerical-patterns-in-the-bible-with-math-expert-john-elias-the-vulture/

John’s Website portal: https://www.37×73.com/

John’s 500-page book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQPCLKMR?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

Dr. Craig Keener, the "scholar's scholar" is back! Today, we are discussing his take on the Biblical evidence for and against Jesus Resurrection + we have a surprise at the end!

In Part 3 of 4, we address some skeptical objections and apparent Resurrection contradictions in the Gospels.