Weekly Podcast Roundup (06/14)
Unbelievable?
Tim Farron is an MP and former leader of the Liberal Democrats. His Christian faith came under scrutiny during the 2017 UK General Election, leading to his resignation as party leader. His autobiography ‘A Better Ambition: Confessions of a faithful liberal’ (SPCK) tells his story.
Reasonable Faith
In December of 2019, Dr. Craig gave two lectures at a conference at Gracepoint Church in San Francisco, CA. Here he gives a lecture with Q&A “On Behalf of a Molinist Perspective.”
Veracity Hill
Can human reason lead to the divine? In this episode Kurt speaks with analytic philosopher Joshua Rasmussen.
Mark Lester
Mark A. Lester has been a dedicated movie reviewer since the age of 13, from the classics of the golden age to the blockbusters of the 21st century. He currently lives in the western suburbs of Chicago.
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Gary L. Matson Jr
“In point of fact, we can know that Jesus rose from the dead wholly apart from the historical evidence. The simplest Christian, who has neither the opportunity nor wherewithal to conduct an historical investigation of Jesus’ resurrection, can know with assurance that Jesus is risen because God’s Spirit bears unmistakable witness to him that it is so.”
–William Lane Craig, evangelical Christian historian and apologist in the preface of his book, The Son Rises, 1981
Why should skeptics bother debating evangelical Christians regarding the evidence for the bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth if at the end of the day their belief in the historicity of this event is not based primarily on historical evidence but on their subjective perception of a spirit (ghost) living somewhere inside their bodies? Regardless of how much evidence we skeptics are able to produce against the eyewitness authorship and historical reliability of the Gospels (the lynch pin arguments of evangelical apologists), evangelicals will refuse to concede an inch of ground due to the alleged “testimony of the Holy Spirit”.
If you believe that the spirit of God the Creator “testifies with your spirit” that the Gospels are historically reliable sources of information, no amount of objective evidence against that position is going to change your mind!
I therefore suggest that skeptics refuse to debate evangelical Christians regarding historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus until evangelicals first provide the evidence for their belief that the spirit (ghost) of Jesus is at this very moment living inside their bodies, communicating with them in a “still, small voice”!
Due to their belief in this core evangelical Christian teaching, how can any evangelical scholar or apologist deny that their research is hopelessly biased?
Gary Matson, Jr., author of Escaping Christian Fundamentalism blog