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Over on The Burial of Jesus<\/a> blog, I\u2019ve shared the debate between William Lane Craig and James Crossley about the resurrection of Jesus, which apparently took place back in 2007. A major reason for writing my book on the burial of Jesus is the relevance of that subject to how we view the traditions about the empty tomb, resurrection appearances and so on. So obviously this debate interests me. I\u2019ve embedded a YouTube version of the debate over on the other blog. I\u2019m leaving the other form embedded here, although for me it seems not to work (although the link does).<\/p>\n

William Lane Craig vs James Crossley \u2013 Resurrection Debate<\/a><\/div>\n

If there is something that is a crucial underlying question (one that I address in the book), it is whether historians will ever be able to say that the most likely explanation for the written stories we now have, and for the beliefs of the early Christians, is that Jesus entered the life of the age to come in a bodily sense. And as a person with a personal Christian faith, one of the major struggles I\u2019ve faced is to acknowledge the ways in which evidence about the burial of Jesus makes other explanations plausible, even if ultimately we acknowledge that the best (and perhaps only honest) answer a historian can give about what happened to the body of Jesus is \u201cwe don\u2019t know\u201d.<\/p>\n

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