What did the bishop see in his hallucination and why
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Our historical investigation below will review the hallucination hypothesis (HH) using the data at our disposal. Well, what then is the HH? We shall let scholar Marcus Borg explain:
“The historical ground of Easter is very simple: the followers of Jesus, both then and now, continued to experience Jesus as a living reality after his death. In the early Christian community, these experiences included visions or apparitions of Jesus” (1).
In other words, Jesus had not been raised from the dead as an act of God, and therefore, the Christian religion is false. Borg still tries to give the resurrection of Jesus some significance, thus explaining it as some living reality, but the bottom line remains that if Jesus was not bodily raised from the dead then the whole story is rather insignificant. It is also worth noting that this is the most popular argument against the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection forwarded by contemporary skeptics, however, it is also one of the weakest of the naturalistic hypotheses offered. We shall review why this is so.
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writes that our “sources are far too limited for such psychologizing analyses” (26).
Fourthly, Paul is a poor candidate for this disorder since research suggests that it occurs mostly in adolescents, young adults and women, as well as in less-educated people, and people with lower IQ’s (27). Paul was certainly no adolescent, he was also man, and well educated (Acts 22:3).
Fifthly, to hold that Paul underwent conversion disorder and hallucinations stretches credulity since these characteristics are uncommon (28). We already saw that Paul is an unlikely candidate for conversion disorder and that he was certainly not predisposed to hallucinate a risen Jesus. To hold both of these simultaneously stretches credulity.
For these several reasons Paul remains a staunch obstacle to those proposing the HH. That all these different elements would come together in support of the HH is simply too unlikely.
“The historical ground of Easter is very simple: the followers of Jesus, both then and now, continued to experience Jesus as a living reality after his death. In the early Christian community, these experiences included visions or apparitions of Jesus” (1).
In other words, Jesus had not been raised from the dead as an act of God, and therefore, the Christian religion is false. Borg still tries to give the resurrection of Jesus some significance, thus explaining it as some living reality, but the bottom line remains that if Jesus was not bodily raised from the dead then the whole story is rather insignificant. It is also worth noting that this is the most popular argument against the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection forwarded by contemporary skeptics, however, it is also one of the weakest of the naturalistic hypotheses offered. We shall review why this is so.
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writes that our “sources are far too limited for such psychologizing analyses” (26).
Fourthly, Paul is a poor candidate for this disorder since research suggests that it occurs mostly in adolescents, young adults and women, as well as in less-educated people, and people with lower IQ’s (27). Paul was certainly no adolescent, he was also man, and well educated (Acts 22:3).
Fifthly, to hold that Paul underwent conversion disorder and hallucinations stretches credulity since these characteristics are uncommon (28). We already saw that Paul is an unlikely candidate for conversion disorder and that he was certainly not predisposed to hallucinate a risen Jesus. To hold both of these simultaneously stretches credulity.
For these several reasons Paul remains a staunch obstacle to those proposing the HH. That all these different elements would come together in support of the HH is simply too unlikely.
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