In the basement of the Student Union building today at Durham University, we had 260 people come to hear me speak on “Impossible and unproven: How can you prove Jesus rose from the dead?”
Here’s some of the questions I tried to answer in the Q & A which followed . . .“If there’s so much evidence for the resurrection, why don’t more people follow Jesus?” “The Qur’an says that it wasn’t Jesus on the cross, but it was someone else. So how would you disprove that?” “Seeing as we know dead people don’t rise, surely it’s more likely that the scholarship you’ve presented is wrong?” “Surely miracles contradict the laws of nature?” “Christians believe in eternal life. Why is that appealing? Life starts and ends. Surely that is preferable to the idea of birth and re-birth?” “On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the maximum amount of evidence, where would you rate the evidence for the resurrection in terms of how convincing it is?” “Surely if Jesus took our sins on the cross, then he wasn’t sinless, because he took our sin, therefore how could Jesus be allowed into a perfect heaven, seeing as he became imperfect when he took our sin upon himself on the cross?”