Resurrection Quiz

Question 1

The nature of a cold case:

Answer 1

• event is in the past
• no living eye witnesses
• little to no forensic evidence
• convincing circumstantial evidence

Question 2

For a historian to accept something as fact the fact must be…

Answer 2

• recorded in early sources
• recorded in multiple, independent sources
• lack legendary elements
• no other competing story

Question 3

THE FACTS:

Answer 3

D- death
E - empty tomb
A - Appearances
T - transformation
H - horrific conditions

Question 4

Joseph of arimathea

Answer 4

• he buried christ in his own tomb
• he was a well known member of the court
• if christians wanted to lie about christ’s burial, they wouldn’t use someone who could quickly confirm

Question 5

How do we know jesus really died (factuality of death)

Answer 5

• roman soldiers were experts at death
• research such as the Journal of the Medical Association concluded that he really did die

Question 6

The Empty Tomb facts

Answer 6

• women found the tomb
  a. women weren’t respected
  b. likely just trying to tell the truth
• the first response was to bribe the soldiers to lie about jesus walking out or being taken

Question 7

Justin Martyr

Answer 7

• believed the disciples stole his body
• the theory wouldn’t need to have been spread if the tomb wasn’t empty

Question 8

Appearances

Answer 8

• the disciples genuinely believed they saw Jesus
• they saw jesus for 40 days by 500 people
• physical touch (claimed to touch him)

Question 9

Josephus

Answer 9

• wasn’t a christian - jewish
• but admitted there was a christ on the cross
• talked about disciples seeing jesus

Question 10

Transformation of the disciples

Answer 10

• they went from scared and running, to willing to die to spread the gospel

Question 11

Stolen Body Theory

Answer 11

resp:
- how would they get by the roman guard
- how would this explain the appearances
- why would the disciples die for a lie?

Question 12

Swoon theory - jesus never died/he walked out

Answer 12

resp:
- how could he survive something so horrific
- why would they bury someone they weren’t sure was dead?
- how did he unroll the stone himself?
- why would the disciples be transformed over someone who wasn’t resurrected?
- where would he have gone?

Question 13

Wrong tomb theory

Answer 13

resp:
- why wouldn’t the chief officials just go to the right tomb?
- they could’ve found his body and proved them wrong

Question 14

Hallucination Theory

Answer 14

resp:
- mass hallucination have never been documented
- doesn’t prove the empty tomb

Question 15

Disciples just lied

Answer 15

resp:
- who would die for a lie
- why not just pull the body out of the tomb

Question 16

God really raised jesus from the dead

Answer 16

• this is the best explanation given the available facts
• it satisfies all the evidence