A room full of skeptical students at the University of Texas goes after Cliffe Knechtle with question after question, starting with the one that cuts to the core of Christianity: how can anyone believe in a resurrection nobody alive has ever seen? Skeptics compare it to a magic trick, and one student goes as far as calling Jesus mentally unstable.
Cliffe responds with the historical case: the Roman soldier's spear wound recorded in John's Gospel, the guarded tomb, the women who were the first witnesses, Thomas's doubt, and Paul's early creed naming over 500 people who saw the risen Christ. He also points out that the disciples died for what they claimed to have seen, not simply for a belief.
The debate then moves from the resurrection to whether morality and religion are things people invented. If right and wrong are just majority opinion, does that mean Nazi Germany's actions were morally justified? And is it fair to describe every world religion in Christian terms, like calling wha...
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