Sean McDowell: Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ | Kirk Cameron on TBN | Easter Special 

Sean is an inspiring soul. Keep up the good works!

I know through all my life experiences that the Lord Jesus Christ is real, He is my Healer, Redeemer and Restorer hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ hallelujah 🙌🏻 worthy is the lamb hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ hallelujah 🙌🏻

Thanks Kirk & Sean - great video as always. Kirk, thanks for speaking at the Mosaic Gayla a couple years ago. HE IS RISEN! 🙂

Thank God for Kirk love for Jesus and for Dr Sean explain the resurrection evidence may God give them both wisdom and bless them in all areas of life

He is Risen! As a bona-fide Born-Again Believer and actual Mr Thomas, I have never doubted it!

I enjoy all the conversations with the guests on your show. Very intelligent questions being posed with awesome answers that give insight into controversial topics.

I am grateful to be able to have access to this content.

You cannot dispute his existence. He is the life, the truth and the way.

My Jesus is alive! He walks with me and has seen me through it all! My hope is in Christ alone! Thank you Bros. Kirk and Sean. You are a blessing to the Christian community. I am loving and seeking apologetics more and more. Christians need to stand for truth and stand firm in our faith because Jesus is real! The more we learn and understand, the more we can share this! Keep up the great work Bros. 🙏❤

I’m reading the new evidence that demands a verdict right now. And I am watching this so I get these answers down very solid.

Great show today hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ hallelujah 🙌🏻 worthy is the lamb hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ hallelujah 🙌🏻

Thank you for this message it gives me hope. I want to give up! But I will continue to trust God! Having faith even in my time of deep despair. I lost my job as a social worker because I refused the vaccine. I refused due to my already failing health. Heart disease and lupus. I’m on a ton of medications already. Including blood thinners. I was denied my medical/religious exemption from Forsyth hospital. Since losing my job I’ve been struggling to provide for myself and my two children. I’m so overwhelmed because both of my boys are autistic. So they require a lot out of me. My husband passed away three years ago so I’m all alone. I’m so down and depressed. I have been called horrible names and mocked because of my circumstances. It’s crazy ppl are denying that this is happening. This month me and my boys are facing homelessness. Every month is a struggle. But I have so much faith that God will provide for me and my children FAITH OVER FEAR.

Thank you so much for this ! Luv ya Kirk Cameron may God keep blessing you and your family !! 🙏🏼✝️🙌🏼

Madness!

Go forth with all you are , seeking salvation from Jesus. After you have been Saved this will no longer be a question to you , you will know He has risen 🙌

LOVE LOVE LOVE this! May God continue to bless your efforts for His Kingdom! Thank you for sharing this information.

Thank you for this episode brother. It is amazing how God made sure that resurrection of Our Lord is verifiable. Glory be to God for He is good and He loves us. Keep up your good work for Our Lord Jesus. Romans 5:8 God is sooooooo good and kind and loving :) Have a great day and God bless you.

Frank Turek has a terrific presentation about this. Thanks gentlemen for spreading the great news about Jesus.

Very insightful! Never thot that b4! God bless y'all

We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in His grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when He freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed His life, shedding His blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when He held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for He was looking ahead and including them in what He would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate His righteousness, for He Himself is fair and just, and He makes sinners right in His sight when they believe in Jesus. There is only one God, and He makes people right with Himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭3:22-26, 30‬ ‭… BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD, YOU CAN HAVE … A LIVING SAVIOR - “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Romans 10:9 A DIVINE MEDIATOR - “Christ that died … is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Romans 8:34 AN UNDYING PROMISE - “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” John 11:25

Resurrection is the key to believe Jesus as God and Lord. Thank you so much for this video.

Well done!

Thank you so much for this! Really appreciate it!

I needed to hear this info. Also, if you read between the lines it is written that Jesus had brother in his family

Love this.. Christ is Lord ❤..also interesting how the non believers always want to trot out the same old comments, as though this will make any difference to those of us saved by Grace in Jesus name. Praying for all x

Excellent interview! These just keep getting better and better! Great job Kirk!

This channel should have 400+ trillion and infinitely likes! 😇🙏❤

God always does the unexpected. Just like when He sent Jesus as Savior, He wasn't a violent Savior but One full of love. The women discovering the empty tombs. God has the reasons He does what He does. If we think it is hard to be a follower now of Jesus Christ, it was so difficult to be in the Roman Empire and be a follower of the Lord. He is strategic and things happen for a reason. That is why after 2,000 years we still talk about Jesus and his ministry, death, and resurrection. There is still proof to back everything up 2,000 years later. I have never seen any other proof last so long. Praise God! Thank you Jesus for your saving power!

"Christ IN you. The hope of glory". The NEW BIRTH by the Holy Spirit.

had me in tears in the first few seconds of Sean talking

I love the argument about Jerusalem. Not sure if I ever heard that one presented as Sean did it this time. I’ve read his dad and his books Evidence for the Resurrection and not sure, as I said, ever heard it this way. As Christians we need to hone our apologetics from time to time so we can not only give our testimony but we can point to others who have published work evidencing the Truth. Shalom

His tomb is empty!! Haleluiah!!!

Nothing said in this video would/should/could be used as _evidence_ . This is nothing more than comfort food for those who already believe.

thanks kirk

Amen!!

Jesus is the only hope we have.

Great video

He is risen.

People believe in Jesus for emotional reasons. The arguments are all terrible. We have known that at least since Hume. These apologists misrepresent data. Let’s just look at the first claim about women: 1. No one is saying that the disciples just made up a story. These tales grew up over time, probably a few years, with details being added to meet questions. The women form part of the story. No one ever said that women can’t be believed about anything 2. The Rabbinic writings on Judaism don’t function as a legal code. Rather they are a series of discussions and rulings more or less authoritative. It makes no sense to say ‘The Talmud says this’ for example, but rather something more like ‘In one of the Talmuds (there are two) Rabbi X said this in the name of Rabbi Y.’ Moreover, the rabbinic texts date from hundreds of years after the time of Jesus. 3. The women in the story do not give evidence in court, they merely say what they have seen, just as is reported frequently. This doesn’t mean they were right or wrong about what they saw, or that their words are accurately reported. 4. Even if one merely says that the women show that the claim wasn’t made up (as per N T Wright), that is not so. Women would be expected to be first attending a tomb, particularly if the body hadn’t been ‘purified’ yet. It’s part of the expected mourning ceremonies. Anyone making up a story at the time would have known that. The presence of the women adds to general versilimitude (I am not saying the story is made up in that fashion, merely that the fact they are women is irrelevant). Similar mistakes are made by apologists on every topic. I could go through point by point.

Blessed are those who believe without seeing. (John 20:29) That also means without having proof.

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I am continually amazed by what absurd mental gymnastics people will employ to hang on to ancient fairy tales.

Father God, my prayer is for those who struggle to believe in the risen Jesus. Please nurture their minds and hearts to see the truth in order that they may be saved and our Lord may be glorified! In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Good video!

Wow, illiterate goat farmers said something 2000 years ago. Must be true. Josephus, 100+ years later mentioned it, along with his other fairy tales. Must be true. Absolutely.

💕❤ this channel

A lot of special pleading, fallacies and no evidence at all.

Kirk, Please do a talk with Gary DeMar. Thank you Brother

They call this evidence???

The anonymous writers of the Gospels were writing from HEARSAY about a tale that the first author heard. They are not individual eyewitness accounts.

Ever since I left the Christian faith, it all sounds so childish now.

Jesus Is Lord Jesus is Life Jesus is Love Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Jesus is God. John 1v1-3

Jesus lives!

I am a believer, but he never answered the question: What evidence do we have today. The Shroud of Turin is the greatest evidence we have today because, at the very least, the way the image was created cannot be duplicated today. In 2017 when the British Museum was finally compelled to release the raw data from the carbon dating, many scientists have proven the carbon dating was seriously flawed. Most recently 9 scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory have proven the Shroud is 2000 years old.

Romans 10:9 acts 2:21 Amen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🙏

Convincing.reality itself is very convincing too,yet reality has no reality to it.the kingdom of God is within you said jesus.so is all of reality,in all ways

Jesus never existed. And people do not come back from the dead. Ever. It is the most childish and petulant wish/demand of mankind.

You are the infinite incarnating in to the dreamstate always

The stupidity here is so thick that it hurts. Women 'finding' the tomb empty would be exactly who I would depict in a STORY about someone rising from the dead. If the writers had men discovering the tomb then they would have to invent a reason as to why the men were even there. It you wrote a STORY that involved a body bring found in a park who would you invent to find the body, a man in a business suit or a woman in a jogging outfit? Sure the man might be more creditable but the woman is more likely to have a valid reason for finding the body. And during the time that the bible was written WOMEN and not men were the ones to doing the anointing. The WOMEN and not the men would have more reason to be there naturally. The rest of his 'evidence' is even worst and none of it counts as evidence.

As a Christian I don't need any proof that my saviour rose from the dead. That's what faith is all about.

Why does Cameron NEVER have guests with an opposing point of view? Is he so afraid that he might learn something which will shatter his Christian bubble?

"One of the most compelling is who discovered the empty tomb." Uhm...we don't even have evidence that there was an empty tomb. Crucifixion victims were customarily left to rot and then tossed out to be eaten by scavengers.

If the story is invented, then particular details, like an empty tomb , can also be invented. Consequently there would be no Joseph of Arimathea to interrogate and no empty tomb to examine. Sean's arguments contain assumptions that should be made explicit. Furthermore his arguments depend almost wholly upon the reliability of the New Testament texts. Nothing here to convince a skeptic.

Matthew 12:26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?

Here is the difficulty we face as Christians - this video, as often happens, is using the Bible to try and prove the resurrection of Christ. But many of those we are trying to prove it to do not accept the Bible as a reliable source of information. So they immediately reject any proofs you present based on the Bible because they do not believe the Bible is true about anything. So how do we provide "proof" to those who don't accept what the Bible says? Here are a few ideas - - since many don't even believe that Jesus even existed we can use references from outside the Bible that confirm the existence of Jesus - such as the writings of Josephus who was not a Christian. - we can use the examples of the Apostles who were martyred for their trust in Christ - as Ray Comfort likes to do, we can use the law to show people they are sinners in need of a Savior and let God's Spirit work on their hearts to convince they of the truth - we can show them compassion in their time of need and God may use that to reach them - we can try to live a life of example that they notice and God uses that to help reach them - we can pray for them

Just as convincing as experience in your sleeping dreams.same situation in your waking times going on

2000+ year's ago if you died because you'd been scourged & then crucified, that was it, game over. I don't believe he was resurrected, all the "Miracles" were just fairy dust to sprinkle on the Gospels. Here we are in 2024 & there's been nothing to suggest that a God resurrected a dead man. We're still in the dark whether a God truly exists.

Physical claims require physical evidence. Kirk and Sean need to take a course or two in logic.

He uses the bible to prove itself. Brilliant.

Jesus did rise, but he never spoke to anyone, after his death. You may have been able to get a glimpse of Jesus before he rose to his kingdom.

Good Morning If anyone would like to know some Historicity of the New Testament and Jesus, please reply yes and I will detail some unbiased scholarship that 99% of believers don't know. It actually very fascinating. Thank You

Almost all theologians will agree that the historian, Josephus, did NOT write that Jesus was the messiah and was resurrected. That passage was added to his writing centuries later by Christian monks. The fact that you feel you need to include a falsity to support your argument really discredits your case.

Is there a 2nd part for this video? I didn't hear any evidence in this one just this guys assumptions.

My man has some fresh J's on. Good stuff.

Josephus mentions Jesus just twice in book 18, in just a few sentences. Historical scholars have argued that these couple of sentences were added hundreds of years AFTER the Äntiquities of the Jews" was written. I really saw ZERO evidence here of the ressurection. Did Jesus exist?, probably there was a wandering Rabbi that some of the stories were based upon, but many claimed they were a deity. As for Jesus being the actual son of a god?, nope, again there's zero evidence for such a claim.

How do you feel about slavery? The same as the bible??? Just a quick question: if you knew God was evil would you still follow him?

You are that called God.go within

I had read this before in C.S. Lewis, not only about the women, but the fact that the apostles all were depressed and left thinking it was all over and what do we do now? Possibly afraid that they would be next but nobody cared about the women so they wondered on over and discovered the empty tomb. Also did not know really how many eye witnesses there were of his appearances after he died on the cross. In my mind I thought it was one or two with a handfull of people but no it was many times in front of hundreds of people. Yet even today they try to explain it as some mass hallucination. Sure, everybody saw the same thing so they must all be hallucinating. Right

Let's compare the ways the Resurrected Jesus is said to have been experienced according to the documents arranged in chronological order. As you're reading, ask yourself is this data more expected under the hypothesis of reliable eyewitness testimony vs the hypothesis of an evolving legend. The scholarly consensus dates the documents as follows: - Paul c. 50 CE - is the only firsthand report. He says the Risen Jesus "appeared" ὤφθη (1 Cor 15:5-8) and was experienced through "visions" and "revelations" - 2 Cor 12:1. The appearance to Paul was a vision/revelation *from heaven* - Gal. 1:12-16, Acts 26:19 (not a physical encounter with a revived corpse) and he makes no distinction between what he "saw" and what the others "saw" in 1 Cor 15:5-8 nor does he mention an intervening ascension between the appearances. This shows that early Christians accepted claims of "visions" (experiences that don't necessarily have anything to do with reality) as "Resurrection appearances." Paul nowhere gives any evidence of the Risen Christ being experienced in a more "physical" way which means you have to necessarily read in the *assumption* that the appearances were physical, from a later source that Paul nowhere corroborates. What Paul says in Phillipians 2:8-9, Rom. 8:34, and the sequential tradition preserved in Eph. 1:20 is consistent with the belief that Jesus went straight to heaven after the resurrection leaving no room for any physical earthly appearances. If this was the earliest belief then it follows that *all* of the "appearances" were believed to have been of the Exalted Christ in heaven and not physical earthly interactions with a revived corpse. He had a chance to mention the empty tomb in 1 Cor 15 when it would have greatly helped his argument but doesn't. Paul's order of appearances: Peter, the twelve, the 500, James, all the apostles, Paul. No location is mentioned. - Mark c. 70 CE - introduces the empty tomb but has no appearance report. Predicts Jesus will be "seen" in Galilee. The original ends at 16:8 where the women leave and tell no one. Mark's order of appearances: Not applicable. - Matthew c. 80 CE - has the women tell the disciples, contradicting Mark's ending, has some women grab Jesus' feet, then has an appearance in Galilee which "some doubt" - Mt. 28:17. Matthew also adds a descending angel, great earthquake, and a zombie apocalypse to spice things up. If these things actually happened then it's hard to believe the other gospel authors left them out, let alone any other contemporary source from the time period. Matthew's order of appearances: Two women, eleven disciples. The appearance to the women takes place near the tomb in Jerusalem while the appearance to the disciples happens on a mountain in Galilee. - Luke 85-95 CE - has the women immediately tell the disciples, contradicting Mark. Jesus appears in Jerusalem, not Galilee, contradicting Matthew's depiction and Mark's prediction. He appears to two people on the Emmaus Road who don't recognize him at first. Jesus then vanishes and suddenly appears to the disciples. This time Jesus is "not a spirit" but a "flesh and bone" body that gets inspected, eats fish, then floats to heaven while all the disciples watch - conspicuously missing from all the earlier reports. Luke omits any appearance to the women. Acts 1:3 adds the otherwise unattested claim that Jesus appeared over a period of 40 days and says Jesus provided "many convincing proofs he was alive" which shows the stories were apologetically motivated. Luke's order of appearances: Two on the Emmaus Road, Peter, rest of the eleven disciples. All appearances happen in Jerusalem. - John 90-110 CE - Jesus can now teleport through locked doors and we get the Doubting Thomas story where Jesus invites Thomas to poke him. This story has the apologetic purpose that if you just "believe without seeing" then you will be blessed. Jesus is also basically God in this gospel which represents another astonishing development. John's order of appearances: Mary Magdalene, eleven disciples, the disciples again plus Thomas, then to seven disciples. In John 20 the appearances happen in Jerusalem and in John 21 they happen near the Sea of Galilee on a fishing trip. As you can see, these reports are inconsistent with one another and represent growth that's better explained as legendary accretion rather than actual history. If these were actual historical reports that were based on eyewitness testimony then we would expect more consistency than we actually get. None of the resurrection reports in the gospels even match Paul's appearance chronology in 1 Cor 15:5-8 and the later sources have amazing stories that are drastically different from and nowhere even mentioned in the earliest reports. The story evolves from Paul's spiritual/mystical Christ all the way up to literally touching a resurrected corpse that flies to heaven! Moreover, in Luke and John the stories have obvious apologetic motivations. So upon critically examining the evidence we can see the clear linear development that Christianity started with spiritual visionary experiences and evolved to the ever-changing physical encounters in the gospels (which are not firsthand reports). If apologists want to claim this data is consistent with reliable eyewitness testimony then they need to provide other examples about the same event from history that grow in fantastic detail like the gospels do, yet are still regarded to be reliable historical documents. I maintain that this cannot be done. If attempted, they will immediately realize any other historical documents that grow like the gospels do will be legends.

The Oxford Dictionary defines Evidence as "the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid" and Oxford defines Belief as "an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists". How is anything presented in this video actually evidence? I would suggest perhaps conjecture (Oxford: "an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information") or more honestly "it is assumed" or "hoped for" to be true. But actual Evidence is a stretch at best.

Jesus say if you believe in god Bless are those who dont see but believe..amen..

The bible is to historical accuracy as is the Flintstones are a legitimate prehistory documentary.

They forgot to present any evidence for the resurrection.

Point three. You definitely would say to your teacher that your dog ate the homework when you have it in your backpack. Not a powerful case. Doesn’t support a redirection.

What’s more likely: A man rose from the dead or the disciples disposed of the body to keep up the charade?

Those who claim JESUS did not exist tell you more about them than anything useful about JESUS, for some there will NEVER be enough evidence to overthrow the god they worship in the mirror

So still none. Great

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The amount of fallacious reasoning here is absolutely hilarious. Throughout every book women are looked at as less than men and now we have to put them on a pedestal which they should have already been on, and because a historical garbage Etc now we take their word for it. But yet he said women but in another passage it says a particular woman discover the tomb and then another passage contradicts it and the stories around the gospels themselves are plagued with contradictions and that alone would not make something a fact it would make something a claim. It's not a powerful case unfortunately for people who believe it. And outside of the Bible there's nothing just like Harry Potter. It's too bad there wasn't enough evidence like what we have for King Tut for which we have archaeological evidence documents writings the burial the tomb the body Deeds thousands of years before Jesus ever existed and yet none of these things we have for Jesus nothing. If they had any of this it would be pretty cool to look as if there is a fact behind a claim but there is nothing except a belief based on faith instead of the reality of the facts

Study the Shroud of Turin! Maranatha!

Your a great person and I been a fan of your work since you were young, I really wished you and Michael J Fox would of worked together.

I’ve begun to doubt the claim that women were looked down upon in their time. Proverbs echos again and again that wisdom is what you want in life. Wisdom and good sense is what matters most. Wisdom is also personified as a woman. Why would you portray something you esteem at the highest level as a class of people you esteem lowly? It doesn’t make sense.

Faith creates its own supposed proof.

The proof of the resurrection of Yahshua is all around us, the seasons show a death, burial and resurrection.

The Greatest Man in History… Jesus; Had no servants, yet they called Him Master. Had no degree, yet they called Him Teacher. Had no medicines, yet they called Him Healer. He had no army, yet kings feared Him. He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world. He did not live in a castle, yet they called Him Lord, He ruled no nations, yet they called Him King, He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him. He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today (Lyle C Rollings III, 2008).

There may not be a historical record outside of the Gospels of the Resurrection. But there's something even better than that that has intrigued non-believing scientists today. These are people who don't care whether Jesus rose from the dead or died like everyone else. That something is a 3D image made on a piece of cloth that wrapped the body of a man who sustained wounds similar to the crucified Christ in the Gospels. That image is the most puzzling piece of photography of the modern era. It was made from an intense burst of light that no one has been able to reproduce to this day. Radiologists and nuclear scientists around the world have tried but have failed repeatedly.

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This is pure idiocy: People do not come back from the dead. Ever. No one, not one, ever. The desire to dodge or somehow "survive" death and continue on is the oldest wish/demand of mankind. And it is as empty as it is impotent. And for those who shriek "NDE's!!!!" That's not dead, that's dying. And its a much longer and complex process than the movies make you think it is. Corpses remain corpses. Always.

Am I the only one who noticed the switch from evidence of resurrection to evidence of existence? I was hoping, let down again.

He appeared to people but was it important his body was alive? Is gender, family, biology, freewill, and life important to be worshipped in God?