Jesus: Just One More Dying and Rising Savior

March 29, 2013 By 44 Comments
Odin sacrificed himself to himself (the highest god) by hanging from a tree. Illustration by Lorenz Frølich (1895).

Mythology has many precedents to the story of the resurrection of Jesus. Let’s look at some of these gods and see if they stand up to the challenge.

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How Decades of Oral Tradition Produced the Gospels

July 23, 2012 By 21 Comments

We delude ourselves when we imagine that the Jesus story was transferred from person to person in pre-scientific Palestine any more reliably than stories travel orally today. The transmission of the gospel was more like gossip than Homer.

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Jesus: Just One More Dying and Rising Savior

April 15, 2012 By 37 Comments

Mythology has many precedents to the story of the resurrection of Jesus. Let’s look at some of these gods and see if they stand up to the challenge.

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Lee Strobel’s Fragile Argument

October 12, 2011 By 7 Comments

Lee Strobel imagines that he takes a tough journalistic attitude to the Christian message and that evidence shows it to be correct. But a little investigation shows that his case is flimsy.

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