For many, many years, scholars at the university level in America and Europe have claimed that the Bible is an unreliable source full of fairy-tale stories, especially regarding Jesus Christ's resurrection.
Gary Habermas got his doctorate at Michigan State University in history/philosophy of religion back in the 1970's. During his grad studies there, he says, "if you talked about the empty tomb [Jesus Christ's tomb] there'd be a lot of snickering, and nobody but evangelicals who published in that area would accept it."
But that is not the case anymore, amazingly.
"Today the majority of NT scholars, theologians, historians, and philosophers who publish in the area believe in the empty tomb. Today bodily resurrection is the predominant view in the academy!"
This requires some explanation, which is tomorrow's post.
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