Question from a Hindu Background Believer (QoW #1001)
About this episode
Dr. William Lane Craig addresses questions from a listener with a Hindu background regarding the historical basis of Christianity's resurrection.
A listener asks Dr. William Lane Craig how Christianity's dependence on a historical resurrection (unlike Hinduism's Krishna) can be defended, then raises three questions that arise in evangelism: that "eternal life" can't be historically verified, that the NT accounts were written too late to trust, and that no clear OT prophecy points to a risen Messiah. Dr. Craig affirms Anil's core insight, that Christianity's rootedness in history is a strength, not a weakness, while showing that the empty tomb, appearances, and disciples' transformation are historically well-attested, that historians still trust ancient biographies (like those of Alexander the Great) written centuries after their subjects' deaths, and that the disciples' unexpected belief in the resurrection is itself evidence for it, precisely because it ran against Jewish expectations.
People in this episode
Host: William Lane Craig
Guest: Anil
Topics covered
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- historical resurrection
- evangelism
- New Testament reliability
- Old Testament prophecy
Keywords
- Christianity
- resurrection
- historical evidence
- evangelism
- New Testament
- Old Testament
- Hinduism
- Krishna
- disciples' transformation
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: New Testament, Old Testament
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