The dates of these records are consistent with being able to speak authoritatively on Christ’s resurrection.

Paul’s first letter to the congregation in Corinth can be dated to around 25 years after Jesus’ resurrection. John’s account was penned between 50 and 70 years after the events.

Dates of the biblical records: Biblical commentators believe the synoptic Gospels-Matthew, Mark and Luke-were written 20 to 30 years after Jesus’ resurrection.

God has ensured that the historical record of Christ’s resurrection would be preserved accurately for us. This contrasts with relatively few documents about some historical figures such as Julius Caesar.

Numerous reliable texts: There are many documents, manuscripts and fragments of the Bible, Old and New Testament, in addition to secular sources that speak of Christ’s resurrection.

Consider the following evidence confirming Jesus’ resurrection: The events described had such an impact on some of Christ’s former enemies and disciples that they gave their lives believing in Him as their resurrected Savior.

The records we will be examining are available worldwide. Can we prove to ourselves from the Bible that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead and lives today? (Along with this article, be sure to read the accompanying article “ Resurrection of Jesus: Can We Prove It?”) People were questioning one of the fundamentals of Christianity-that we have a resurrected Lord. The apostle Paul had to quash rumors in the Corinthian congregation that Jesus Christ had never been resurrected at all, so in 1 Corinthians 15:5-8 he named eyewitnesses who had been with the resurrected Christ. He sets out to supplement Samuel Byrskog's 'Story as history – history as story: the gospel tradition in the context of ancient oral history (Leiden: Brill, 2000)', which demonstrates that ancient historians considered the best kind of historical evidence to be eyewitness testimony deriving from personal involvement in events – by identifying eyewitnesses and eyewitness testimony in the Gospel tradition.Ģ20401 Christian Studies (incl Biblical Studies and Church History)Ģ00305 Latin and Classical Greek LanguagesĢ10399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classifiedĩ50406 Religious Traditions (excl.Was Jesus actually resurrected? Many critics today find it hard to believe Jesus’ resurrection ever occurred. Andrews contends that eyewitness testimony as a category of historiography is 'an entirely appropriate means of access to the historical reality of Jesus' (5). In this large and closely argued book Richard Bauckham of the University of St. Bauckham, 'Jesus and the eyewitnesses: the Gospels as eyewitness testimony': Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006, 538 pp, ISBN 9780802831620, USD 58.99