Reformation Lecture - The Empty Tomb

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Note well - In 1987 I wrote to all the LCA-ELCA seminary presidents, asking if any professor taught the Virgin Birth of Christ and the actual Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The only answer was "perhaps one," since that professor published that the Resurrections could have happened. That seminary (Pacific by the Bay)  gave up their campus and went to the bottom of the hill, and now is renting space.

Simon Greenleaf, Harvard Law Professor, wrote the model work on evidence, and applied himself to the Testimony of the Evangelists. John Warwick Montgomery and Josh McDowell are known for their apologetics (defense of the Gospel).

Matthew 28:11 - Lenski  - bribe money for the centurions.

Greenleaf - neatly folded grave clothes..

Disciples mourning supports their lack of hiding the corps.

From Grand Canyon University -

"According to Dr. Licona in Strobel’s book, the majority of scholars today agree on the historicity of five events that took place near the time of the resurrection of Jesus:

1. Jesus was killed by crucifixion.
2. The disciples of Jesus really believed that Jesus had resurrected and appeared to them in a resurrected body. (This testimony was preserved in the earliest writings of the Apostle Paul, in the oral traditions of the first-century church and in the Christian writings from late in the first century and into the second century).
3. The conversion of Paul, which took place just a few years after the resurrection of Jesus; Paul had been a fierce persecutor of the Christians.
4. The post-resurrection conversion of James, the brother of Jesus, into a believer in Jesus. Before the resurrection of Jesus, James and the other brothers of Jesus had been skeptic about His claims.
5. The empty tomb of Jesus."

Robert Clifton Robinson:

Were The Gospels Written By Eyewitnesses?

There are 203 eyewitness statements in the 260 chapters of the New Testament that declare that the writers saw and heard Jesus. There are 396 citations in the New Testament where His crucifixion and resurrection three days later are recorded. These citations are in my book, “You Are My Witnesses: The Men Who Saw Jesus.”