Resurrection as History Did the resurrection of Jesus really happen in history? This is the subject of this lesson. What are some of the widely recognized historical facts pertaining to the resurrection of Jesus which historians must address? How have resurrection apologetics been done traditionally? What new developments in scholarly historical resurrection research have opened up new avenues for resurrection apologetics? What are the two steps in making an apologetic for the resurrection? What is the Minimal Facts apologetic for the resurrection of Jesus? What are the criteria for a satisfactory inference to the best explanation? How are the early verses of 1 Corinthians 15 crucial regarding the historicity of the resurrection? (52 min)
Lesson 45: Review Questions
Lesson 45: Lesson Notes

Tags: Resurrection, Jesus, Death, Life

What Is Resurrection? In this lesson we begin a three lesson module on the resurrection of Jesus. The idea of resurrection has become a muddled concept in our contemporary times, but it was not always so. What are some of aspects of the contemporary paradigm of the early church’s teaching of resurrection that some people hold? What does the Scripture mean by resurrection when it is used in a metaphor? What did the word resurrection mean from the time of Homer onward until into the second century A. D.? How did the Greco-Roman world view death? Why do scholars today dismiss any suggestion that the dying and rising god’s of the ancient religions show any correspondence to the New Testament accounts of the resurrection of Jesus? How did ancient people view the possibility of someone returning bodily from the dead? How did the Judaism of Jesus’ time view the idea of resurrection? How was the concept of resurrection much more than merely belief in life after death? How did the events of Easter radically alter the understanding of many devout Jews? (51 min)
Lesson 44: Review Questions
Lesson 44: Lesson Notes

Tags: Resurrection, Jesus, Life, Death, Life after Death

The Origin of Life In this lesson we continue our consideration of origins by looking at the subject of the origin of life. What does the Bible teach us about the origin of life? What does Darwinism have to say about the origin of life? What are the great questions about the origin of life which any explanation must answer? What are some of the obstacles to life originating from non-living matter? Why do efforts to spontaneously create amino acids or to explain their assembly into proteins still leave the big questions regarding life unanswered? What is our universal and repeated experience regarding the source of information? What is the “chicken or the egg” problem? Even if one were able, against all odds, to get the necessary elements for a living cell from non-living matter, why would that still be an apparently insurmountable distance from having a living organism?
Lesson 26: Review Questions
Lesson26: Lesson Notes

Tags: Origin, Life, Abiogenesis, Information, Darwinism