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Christ Resurrection. Minimal facts approach. The minimal facts approach seeks to prove the resurrection of Christ by use of a few facts. Secular scholars that have studied the approach have accepted it due to the historical defenses that support it which are in no way influenced by doctrines sourced from the Word of God. The scholarly approach, pioneered in the 1970’s by a philosopher Gary R. Habermas, seeks to establish reliability in the Bible and portrays Christianity as a historical fact. In applying the minimal facts approach in the resurrection of Jesus we could say that Christ’s resurrection makes him truly a special being worthy of all the recognition. A few facts such as, “after his crucifixion, Jesus was buried in a tomb of stone by Joseph of Arimathea. Jesus died on the cross, a fact that is accounted for in all the gospel books. It was also attested by Paul when he wrote that he was passing a message he had received, that Christ had died for people’s sins in accordance with the scriptures, he was buried, raised on the third day and appeared to Cephas then the twelve disciples. A few secular historians like Josephus, Mara Bar-Serapion, Lucian and Tacitus agreed that Jesus Christ was executed by crucifixion. Their writings serve as references which make the Crucifixion impossible to disapprove since it would be ironical for these scholars to write an untrue philosophy about a man they did not reference. Crossan(1991) wrote, “His crucifixion is as sure anything historical can ever be”(394). If He would not have risen from the dead even the disciples may not have gone on to proclaim Him in writing, He would have been seen as an ordinary man. The
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