about a century ago it was common to claim that the earliest Christians borrowed the concept of
Resurrection from pagan myths and applied it to Jesus but this has been almost universally
rejected today by scholars and for very good reasons number one think of who the earliest
Christians were they were pious Jews who often debated over the minutiae of the Jewish law they
debated over matters such as whether Christians could eat meat that had been sacrificed to idols
whether Jewish Christians could eat in the same room as Gentile Christians whether
Jewish Christians needed to maintain the temple of purification rites whether Gentile male Christians
needed to be circumcised now when you're debating over minor matters of the Jewish law to this
extent do we really imagine that these same Jewish leaders would borrow wholesale from pagan myths to
form the foundation of their own that seems unreasonable you can find parallel details
in just about anything many of us are aware of a ship that just a little over a hundred
years ago was making its maiden voyage across the Atlantic on an April evening and hit an iceberg
it was considered unsinkable but when it hit the iceberg the unthinkable happened and the ship sank
and more of its half of its passengers died due to a lack of lifeboats now the name of that boat
it lets say it began with a T it was the tie the tight end it was the tighten and this is found in
a novel called futility the wreck of the Titan and it was written in 1898 fourteen years prior
to the sinking of the Titanic now no one would go ahead and and say that the Titanic didn't sink no
we find parallel details in just about anything and so even if there are some parallel details
between Jesus's resurrection and heroes pagan heroes and in their myths who had come back to
life it doesn't mean that the erection never occurred we should actually expect to find
stories of people returning from the dead peppered throughout all of human history you know there's a
deep longing in most people for romance we just can't seem to get enough of it and so there's a
lot of fictitious movies and romance novels that come out that talk about romance and great stories
but this doesn't mean that romance is unattainable for most people what it means that there's a deep
longing in the human heart for romance in the same way we can find stories of people returning from
the dead even recent ones like the movie ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore we can find
numerous stories peppered throughout all of human history of the dead returning to life and talking
about it and the reason being is because many times throughout human history especially in
antiquity and in some places of the world today life can be quite brutal we don't want to think
that this life is all there is and so we want to have a hope of an afterlife well when God
will reward reward goodness and punish evil and so we would expect stories like this we would
expect stories where we are going to survive our deaths and where we are going to see our loved
ones again so just because of that we wouldn't discount a story that is well evidenced about
Jesus resurrection because there are fictitious stories of people coming back to life any more
than we would discount the possibility of experiencing romance based on romance novels
you