Dr Gary Habermas and Dr Joe Mulvihill3 - Gary’s Approach to the “gospels as mythology” claim

Join us as we assess the myth claim with regard to the Jesus tradition. In this week's segment, Dr. Habermas and I discuss "the turn" in Jesus scholarship among critics on the dating of the belief in the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth among his followers. For decades the critical consensus leaned toward how Jesus is currently presented at secular universities, that is, that the incarnation, resurrection & miracles of Jesus were all LATER LEGENDARY additions to the Jesus tradition. Dr. Habermas goes out of his way to use skeptics/enemies of Christianity (enemy attesting) to make his case against a mythically developed Jesus movement. Early profession + the overt "sight language" of the disciples & Paul undermines myth and legend theories, even though these myth theories are still popularly (though misleadingly) disseminated as accurate at universities. Gary concludes this segment by also pointing out that even early twentieth-century German scholars (Otto Pfleiderer & Ernst Troelsch), who assumed legendary/mythic development of the Jesus tradition, admitted resurrection events and language should be bracketed out from their mythic framework. POINT: If the resurrection happened, Christianity is true, period.