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Mass hallucination theory refuted by fact I: hallucinations are individual, not shared; 1 Corinthians 15 cites 500 simultaneous witnesses

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Systematic refutation of the mass hallucination theory

By definition, a hallucination is a private internal experience — it cannot be simultaneously shared by multiple people in the same location. Mike cites 1 Corinthians 15 (within five years of the resurrection) as recording over 500 people seeing Jesus at once. He notes that Richard Carrier draws on this theory selectively.

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