Scientific & Historical Challenges to the Resurrection

Which 2nd Century scholar challenged the resurrection?

• Celsus

• Origen

• Dawkins

• Plato

Which 2nd Century scholar defended the Resurrection?

• Celsus

• Origen

• Aquinas

• Luther

Celsus compares the life of Jesus to...

• other prophets

• other political leaders

• other dying-rising-gods

• other Jews

Jaques Abbadie argues that 'no one (a)   for a fiction which they have invented.'

The key features of the Enlightenment are...

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

• Conservatism

• Scepticism

Which scholar used contradictions between the four gospels to question whether they really could be inspired by God?

• Celsus

• Origen

• Baron D'Holbach

• Eusebius

Which scholar argued Jesus was a Jewish prophet-turned-political-revolutionary who never claimed to be the Son of God

• Baron D'Holbach

• Hermann Reimarus

• Ian Wilson

• Frank Morison

Thomas Woolston described the resurrection as a 'monstrous ____'

• fraud

• exaggeration

• event

• truth

Which influential Enlightenment scholar wrote an influential attack on miracles?

• David Hume

• Frank Morison

• Ian Wilson

• N.T Wright

The claim that Jesus did not really die on the cross is called the (a)   hypothesis