Given how desperately the disciples wanted Jesus to be alive following his crucifixion, isn’t it possible they simply hallucinated the Resurrection appearances?
Given how desperately the disciples wanted Jesus to be alive following his crucifixion, isn’t it possible they simply hallucinated the Resurrection appearances?
Doesn’t all this just assume that the NT accounts are actual reliable reporting? You even use the material from the added on ending of Mark 16 which is dismissed by scholarship.
If they had talked themselves into hallucinating Jesus’ resurrection why were they so hesitant to believe it? Why did they doubt the account of the women who discovered the empty tomb? What about the other 500 other witnesses, most of whom weren’t nearly as emotionally invested as the disciples? The two men on the road to Emmaus? What about all the dead spirits walking around? Did the disciples imagine them too?
The dead spirits Madison are a clue for you …. even apologists like Licona think that they were made up. We just don’t know how many of those stories really happened, and if they did, how accurately they are presented.
That is what needs establishing first. Otherwise it is just more stories
Psychologist have agreed that matching hallucinations on that scale is impossible. It was stated that, that would be a larger miracle than the resurrection itself. There is such scholarly literature, Christian and non believer, that even atheist historians agree that Jesus did exist and that the Apostles truly believed he had risen. Do you really think that they would have died, several apostle accounts of martyrdom are recorded history, for a lie? Gerd Ludeman,a nonbelieving scholar stated, “We can assume that all the elements in the tradition are to be dated to the first two years after the crucifixion…not later than three years after the death of Jesus.” Referring to Paul’s opening creed in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8. He also stated, “It may be taken as historical certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus’ death in which Jesus appeared to them as a risen Christ.”
The NT testament is probably Roman propaganda directed against the Jews.
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