Summary of the Licona / Ehrman 2009 debate on the Resurrection
Dr. Bart Ehrman and Dr. Michael Licona had an interesting debate in 2009 on the topic "Can Historians Prove Jesus Rose from the Dead?" Here's a link to the video and some comments. Dr. Ehrman's channel / Dr. Licona's channel Since they called each other "Bart" and "Mike", I'll take liberties and do the same. In this debate, Mike presented 3 Historical "Facts", and then used 4 accepted methods of Historical Analysis to propose that the most reasonable, historical conclusion to draw from these facts is that Jesus, in fact, was Resurrected. From there, Bart counters that the Resurrection can not be established as a "historical fact" by definition, because such an event would never produce the kind of criteria required for a historian to make any definite claims one way or another. And the debate goes back and forth from there, with many interesting twists and turns that I really enjoyed actually, but naturally n...