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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Preview of next week's livestream: responding to resurrection deniers and the excuses they give

Closing announcement for the next session

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Video framing: not just presenting resurrection evidence but specifically examining how skeptics dodge it

Opening statement of purpose for the livestream

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Livestream is framed as an exercise in loving God with the mind — building the Christian worldview intellectually

Introduction to the weekly Tuesday livestream format

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Named skeptics to be examined: Matt Dillahunty, David Hume, Sam Harris, Dan Barker, Richard Carrier, Bart Ehrman

Roster of specific atheist/skeptic thinkers Mike will analyze

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Annual wave of low-scholarship anti-resurrection media (e.g., 'Lost Tomb of Jesus', Joaquin Phoenix Mary Magdalene film, Da Vinci Code)

Mike critiques popular culture's repeated attacks on the resurrection using sensationalism rather than solid scholarship

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

The evidence-based case for the resurrection is historically grounded, not merely faith-based

Mike distinguishes the scholarly historical case for the resurrection from a purely religious 'believe it because we say so' position

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Five historically-accepted facts about the resurrection summarized as the acronym ALIVE

Mike introduces his mnemonic framework for presenting the resurrection evidence

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

First fact (A): Death by crucifixion — historically documented and generally agreed upon

First point of the ALIVE acronym

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Second fact (L): Women/ladies found the tomb empty — criterion of embarrassment supports authenticity

Second point of the ALIVE acronym

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Third fact (I): Independent post-resurrection appearances of Jesus accepted by the vast majority of historians

Third point of the ALIVE acronym

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Fourth fact (V): Violence endured by the Apostles — dramatic transformation from hiding to dying for their message

Fourth point of the ALIVE acronym

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Fifth fact (E): Enemies of Christ converted — specifically James the brother of Jesus and Paul the Apostle

Fifth point of the ALIVE acronym

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The resurrection best explains all five ALIVE facts; other explanations must account for all five

Transition from presenting evidence to evaluating alternate theories

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Swoon theory: Jesus only appeared dead, was not actually dead, and recovered in the tomb

First alternate theory introduced

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Twin theory: Jesus had a twin who was either crucified or who appeared after the crucifixion

Second alternate theory introduced

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Mass hallucination theory: the appearances of Jesus were mass hallucinations rather than physical encounters

Third alternate theory — described as the most popular among skeptics

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Spiritual resurrection theory: Jesus rose spiritually but not bodily

Fourth alternate theory, associated with liberal scholars

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Wrong tomb theory: disciples went to the wrong tomb, found it empty, and triggered the resurrection belief

Fifth alternate theory introduced

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Missing body theory: Jesus's body was never in the claimed tomb or went missing, explaining the empty tomb

Sixth alternate theory introduced

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Conspiracy theory: the disciples deliberately stole or fabricated the empty tomb story

Seventh alternate theory — described as the oldest, going back to first-century opponents of Christianity

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Swoon theory refuted by facts A, I, and V: the description of crucifixion, the nature of post-resurrection appearances, and the disciples' bold willingness to die

Systematic refutation of the swoon theory using the ALIVE facts

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Twin theory refuted by facts L, I, and E: empty tomb implies no second body; intimate companions would have known; family members converted

Systematic refutation of the twin theory using the ALIVE facts

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

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

Systematic refutation of the mass hallucination theory

1 Corinthians 15 1 Corinthians 15 resurrection Richard Carrier
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Spiritual resurrection theory refuted by the meaning of the word 'resurrection' in first-century Jewish context — N.T. Wright's scholarship

Systematic refutation of the spiritual resurrection theory, citing N.T. Wright's work on Jewish meaning of resurrection

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Wrong tomb theory refuted by facts I, V, and E: independent appearances, violence endured, and enemy conversions cannot be explained by a navigational error

Systematic refutation of the wrong tomb theory

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Missing body and conspiracy theories both fail to explain facts I, V, and E; conspiracy adds knowingly dying for a lie

Systematic refutation of the missing body and conspiracy theories

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

The resurrection is the one rational explanation that accounts for all five ALIVE facts

Conclusion of the evidence survey section

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

David Hume's argument: miracles are impossible, therefore no testimony can ever establish a miracle

Beginning of the skeptics section; examination of David Hume's philosophical objection

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Hume's single exception: he would only accept a miracle if it was the lesser of two competing miracle claims

Further detail on Hume's position from 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'

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Bart Ehrman's position: even if miracles happened, historians should not believe them

Examination of Bart Ehrman's approach to the resurrection

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

In his debate with William Lane Craig, Ehrman granted all five ALIVE facts but denied any historian can postulate miracles

Mike describes the Craig-Ehrman debate on the resurrection

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After the Craig debate, Ehrman changed position and now denies the burial — Mike argues this is ad hoc motivated reasoning

Mike's analysis of Ehrman's intellectual development post-debate

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Richard Carrier is a mythicist — he denies Jesus existed at all, a fringe position among credentialed scholars

Introduction to Richard Carrier's approach

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Carrier teaches that in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul describes events that occurred in outer space — a cosmic/celestial resurrection rather than an earthly one

Carrier's interpretation of the Pauline resurrection kerygma

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Carrier's theory that the disciples were a mass gathering of schizophrenic individuals prone to shared hallucinations

Carrier's explanation for post-resurrection appearances

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Carrier constructs a 'Frankenstein theory' drawing on ancient literature to claim Gospel narratives were plagiarized from myths

Carrier's literary dependence argument for the Gospel narratives

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Dan Barker: former Christian musician now affiliated with Freedom From Religion Foundation, who debates and speaks against Christianity

Introduction of Dan Barker

Dan Barker Freedom From Religion Foundation deconversion
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Dan Barker's four reasons to reject the resurrection: problem of history, possible natural explanations, internal Bible contradictions, legendary growth

Overview of Barker's case against the resurrection

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Barker's 'problem of history': miracles cannot be established from historical evidence — same Humean presupposition as Ehrman

Mike analyzes Barker's first objection

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Barker won't commit to a specific natural explanation because none can withstand scrutiny

Analysis of Barker's second objection — 'possible natural explanations'

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Barker's internal contradictions objection is a red herring — the five historical facts don't depend on biblical inerrancy

Mike's critique of Barker's third objection

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Barker's legendary growth argument cherry-picks data — each Gospel sometimes has more miraculous content, sometimes less

Mike's critique of Barker's fourth objection

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Matt Dillahunty's debate strategy: avoid taking a position, only attack others' positions; leans toward mythicism

Introduction and analysis of Matt Dillahunty's approach

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Dillahunty refuses to name an alternate explanation for the five facts; retreats to 'I don't know' as an elite epistemic position

Mike's critique of Dillahunty's evasiveness in debate

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Dillahunty says he cannot think of any evidence that would convince him the resurrection happened — Mike calls this blind faith skepticism

Dillahunty's response to what evidence would change his mind

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Sam Harris: no evidence — including multiple contemporaneous eyewitnesses — would be sufficient to establish the resurrection

Examination of Sam Harris's position on miracle claims

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Core pattern across all skeptics: a priori rejection of the resurrection regardless of evidence — Mike calls this blind faith

Synthesis and conclusion of the skeptics analysis section

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Response to 'you can't use the Bible': the Bible is actually 66 documents by multiple authors over hundreds of years and is treated as historical documents by secular historians

Common objection addressed — that the resurrection case is circular because it relies on the Bible

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

The 'they're just Christians' dismissal commits the genetic fallacy — disqualifying scholars by association with their conclusions

Response to Richard Carrier's dismissal of pro-resurrection scholars as biased Christians

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Apologetics is not 'hijacking history' — the historical facts preexist apologetic use; it is skeptics who abuse historical disciplines

Response to the charge that Christian apologists are inappropriately co-opting history

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