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To: A_perfect_lady

Let’s look at how historians work.

For one thing they use historical criteria to establish reliability, or historical truth. Among the criteria used by historical scholars are the criteria of multiple attestation and the criteria of embarrassment.

The empty tomb account meets both, this is part of the reason why even skeptics like Bart Ehrman have accepted the plausibility of the empty tomb.


431 posted on 04/20/2014 4:43:21 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith
The empty tomb account meets both, this is part of the reason why even skeptics like Bart Ehrman have accepted the plausibility of the empty tomb.

That's great. Can you show me where? Who? When?

436 posted on 04/20/2014 5:06:15 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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