Dale Allison

And Alvin Plantinga, Rasmussen, and Cesar Bernstein in support of the ontological argument remain unsurpassed.

With respect to the evidence in support of Jesus' resurrection, there's nothing to override the positive case made by thinkers like Dale Allison, N.T. Wright, Michael Lacona, Gary Habermas, Stephen Davis, Richard Swinburne, and Timothy and Lydia McGrew.

Have you read the work of these thinkers, Riley? Or have you contented yourself with non-peer-reviewed pablum on the internet? So I was curious what you meant when you said, quote, the academic consensus is against us in most cases, end quote.

How so? It is true that most university professors, like most people in general, are not Christian believers, but that's hardly surprising.

I think this is just manifestly false that, um, Christian apologists do not apply the same level of scrutiny to their own beliefs as they do to, to Mormonism, for example, and, and if they did, they would be skeptical.

Um, New Testament scholars like N.T. Wright, Dale Allison, Michael Licona do exactly that.

They apply the same sort of scrutiny to the biblical narrative would to, uh, Mormonism or other religions, uh, and they determine that these are credible accounts to be believed.

Now, he, he also asks, if you were a Muslim, what would be your apologetic against Jesus' resurrection? Well, we know the answer to that question because there are so many Muslims.

So if you just read the full chapter, it's clearly...

And, and this is, you know, Dale Allison and several scholars have pointed this out, that if you just read what happens in the very next chapter, in all three Synoptics it goes right to the transfiguration.

So this is setting up what's happening there.

So yeah.

And he says that James was asked by the high priest Annas, What about your brother? Do you believe in him or not? Is he the way of salvation or not? But he answers very interestingly, the same answer Jesus gave when he was questioned by the priest Caiaphas in the New Testament, the Jewish priest, high priest.

He says, you will see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, which is code to anyone who knows Daniel, you will live to see the kingdom of god arrive on earth and you won't you know you're talking to the high priest you're talking to pontius pilate you're talking to uh james is talking to high priest that was his answer they're saying do you think your brother's the christ and he says you will see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven so you can't remove that material so some of my colleagues that i really really respect Paula Friedrichs and Dale Allison, Bart Ehrman, they are mainstream, really top New Testament scholars.

And they would all say, look, if you don't have an apocalyptic Jesus, you don't have Jesus.

Well, as you said, why is that important? Can't we just go to the Christ of faith? There are two problems with the Christ of faith.