{"id":33017,"date":"2016-04-25T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=33017"},"modified":"2016-04-25T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:03:21","slug":"evidence-of-jesus-christs-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/04\/evidence-of-jesus-christs-resurrection.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Evidence of Jesus Christ&#8217;s resurrection&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33018\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/737px-Artgate_Fondazione_Cariplo_-_Gemito_Vincenzo_Il_filosofo_Masto_Ciccio_o_San_Paolo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33018\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33018\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/737px-Artgate_Fondazione_Cariplo_-_Gemito_Vincenzo_Il_filosofo_Masto_Ciccio_o_San_Paolo.jpg\" alt=\"Gemito, Paul (or somebody)\" width=\"595\" height=\"484\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSaint Paul\u201d (Vincenzo Gemito, 1917) \u00a0Wikimedia Commons public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some confidently assume that the story of Jesus\u2019s rising from the dead is simply a tall tale, a legend that grew up over generations, becoming \u201cbigger\u201d with each telling.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aren\u2019t the gospels, after all, much later compilations?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. \u00a0But very possibly not.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In any case,\u00a0such views tend to ignore the letters of Paul, which are indisputably early:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700179165\/Evidence-of-Jesus-Christs-resurrection.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700179165\/Evidence-of-Jesus-Christs-resurrection.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Amman, Jordan<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Some confidently assume that the story of Jesus\u2019s rising from the dead is simply a tall tale, a legend that grew up over generations, becoming \u201cbigger\u201d with each telling. \u00a0 Aren\u2019t the gospels, after all, much later compilations? \u00a0 Maybe. \u00a0But very possibly not. \u00a0 In any case,\u00a0such views tend to ignore the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Evidence of Jesus Christ&#039;s resurrection&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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