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Can you name one scholar who accepts the resurrection but isn’t a Christian?

May 28th, 201111:24 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

Over the last week I have had the following question posed to me two or three times: "Can you tell me of just one scholar who accepts the resurrection of Jesus but who isn't a Christian?" Of course this isn't just an innocent question. I feel like the ticket person at an old drive in theater. Suddenly a 1967 Pontiac Parisienne with a driver and ...
Why cannot God just forgive?

April 03rd, 201002:25 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

In my last post "God was in Christ reconciling the world, but how exactly?" I explained and critiqued a Judge Judy analogy of the atonement. Some of the subsequent discussion focused in on the plaintiff Suzy. Who is this individual and what role does she play in the analogy? beetle496 attempts to summarize the discussion in the thread on Suzy's ro...
Can Jesus make a better Caesar salad than my wife?

January 12th, 201002:02 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

Yesterday I was at the dinner table with my wife and daughter Jamie eating a tasty meal. As I crunched the crispy romaine lettuce dressed with croutons, parmesan cheese, lemon juice and the rest, I exclaimed to Jamie, "Nobody can make a better Caesar salad than your mom!" to which she replied: "Jesus can!" Well I admit, according to Christian...
Was Jesus of two minds ... literally? (Part 1 and a half)

December 21st, 200902:44 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

In my last post I laid down the raw materials for an account of how Jesus could be simultaneously omniscient (qua his divinity) and finite in knowledge (qua his humanity). I did so by outlining the dual consciousness of split brain patients. In those fascinating cases people who suffered from severe seizures were given a corpus callosotomy, an oper...

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The Tentative Apologist

Can you name one scholar who accepts the resurrection but isn’t a Christian?

Why cannot God just forgive?

Can Jesus make a better Caesar salad than my wife?

Was Jesus of two minds ... literally? (Part 1 and a half)