Was Jesus Actually Resurrected? (Infographics Show Response) 

Yikes the comments on the original video are so filled with "I'm Christian and I knew this was the truth beforehand"

The "For the bible tells me so" jingles just made my day.

Teacher: “Matthew and Luke, you are on detention for copying Mark’s homework. John, you’re on detention for not paying attention in class!”

For what it's worth Paul, this is the kind of content I come to your channel for. Keep them coming!

What really bothers me about this "infographic" is that something that (in my understanding) should be unbiased, is the most biased apologetic screed you're likely to find.

Praying for every soul here. Much love to you all and hope you are having a good day or night :).

Things can become popular even if they are based on incorrect information. Smoking was popular because people thought it was healthy. Tobacco companies tried to cover up the facts while indoctrinating more followers.

The reason Sherlock Holmes is so smart and can deduce conclusions based on the most insignificant clues is because Arthur Conan Doyle wrote him this way. If you want your hero to have Plot Hole Armor you just write that he has.

Paul, these videos are so well done. I particularly like the way in which you distinguish between facts and assertions. Well researched, well commented and well illustrated, your videos stand out as world class arguments stripping away the assertions of apologetics.

Dude, the amount of work be puts into his videos... Crazy. Thank you Paul

Paul: "It puts out highly researched..." Me, a history nerd: "...ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... let's file that under 'debatable'."

This video bothered me quite a bit honestly, I’m also a former Christian and have been following the infographics show as a fan for quite awhile, and I immediately noticed a lot of these same discrepancies. Worries me that a lot of the information I learned may have come from a biased source 🤷

At the end when he said "something split the Jewish faith in two" he's making the absolutely insane assumption that Judaism was not already split into many different factions, similar to how christianity and Islam are today. He also doesn't mention the oldest christians had disagreements on core aspects of the faith including resurrection. Judaism wasn't split in two, it was just a few Jews who were sick of waiting for a messiah chose their favorite religious teacher Jesus to fill the role. It didn't matter to them that Jesus didn't fulfill the requirements the messiah was prophesized to fulfill.

That jingle lives rent free in my head and I'm not complaining

I‘m here as a Christian and it’s really nice to see that nothing here refuted anything. GOD bless you all abundantly

The frequency of “for the Bible tells me so “ had me cracking up

Infographics episode looking more like a Gish Gallop with this breakdown

With these leaps of logic we could prove thousands of resurrection stories throughout history. It's incredible how people can recognize myths and legends in other religions, but not their own.

“Explaining how so many 19th century Protestants came to beileve in a radical different version of Christianity called Mormonism is difficult unless the followers had proof of the Golden Plates” See I made the same arugment they did and my guess is they would not accept it

Joseph Smith also maintained his story about getting the Book of Mormon directly from an angel, and translating it with magic stones, right up to his martyrdom.

The story of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead lacks any legendary embellishment. No? "Resurrection from the dead" doesn't do it for you, eh?

Infographics is fun, but I found out a lot of their stuff was surface level research only. Shows like Today I Found Out that do more deep dives led me to see how infographics is wrong about a lot of stuff in general.

Early Church leaders in Rome writing something down: "Is it allowed to eat turtles on Friday?"

Disciples & others never said they have witnessed an empty tomb & a risen Jesus. The early writers fabricated the resurrection hoax by making up fake testimonials that the disciples & others have witnessed an empty tomb & a risen Jesus.

You have to wonder when a "secular" themed channel goes full "For The Bible Tells Me So" in its "analysis". Yeah, no.

Perhaps next Infographics will do a video of what type of tobacco Sherlock Holmes put in his pipe ? And did that change after his resurrection ?

I Don't TRUST a STORY About Something That Happened 20 Years Ago !!!

Let's goo paulogia!!

Paul’s entire collection of resurrection videos should be played at every Sunday school/ apologetics seminars. How can you defend Christianity if you don’t even know what the counter arguments are? Unless you rather have fake atheist Sean McDowell present straw man arguments that he already knows how to refute...like they did in my church when I was a Christian.

Well done, Paul. I watched the Infographics video earlier today and was dismayed at how it played fast and loose with the "facts". Thank you for straightening the record!

One thing I will never understand about those who defend scripture on faith is why do they assume the writers were necessarily truthful or honest? Would they yield that same level of faith to a modern day preacher writing “updates” to scripture? Something tells me most wouldn’t.

Commenting for the algorithm now but will watch later. Never been so early to a Paulogia video.

This is fantastic. Well done. Also, thank you for reference to your blog about gospel comparison.

Love you

THANK U for making this in response to the Infographics video!

I think people often tend to confuse the field of studying history for the bite-sized history classes they had in high school and college

So Zombies aren't possible, yet Christ coming back from the dead is possible.

Faith in God helped many of my friends to get off drugs and alcohol. I respectfully disagree with your opinion but I respect it. from Croatia-Europe 💙💙💙

I'm so happy and surprised to see this video!

Now I have the "🎶For the buybull tells me so🎶" ditty in my head. Arrgh

The documents are historical. Doesn’t mean what they say is non-fiction

I saw this and immediately thought "Wonder what Paulogia would think of this?"

Don't watch the Infographics show. Watch Kurzgesagt instead. It's like the Infographics show if the Infographics show had a brain and integrity.

I think the 'complete and utter lies to promote their cult' is also a valid possible explanation for the ressurection.

Because 1 in 3 people identify as Christian the resurrection is "the single most important event in human history" 50 seconds in and a pretty large amount of bias already showing. And of course their whole video is just "if the Bible isn't true, there is no way to explain all the claims in the Bible" Edit: I am unreasonably annoyed that my auto correct capitalizes Bible

The whole video was just a thinly veiled apologetic spiel that threw in some Bart Ehrman citations to feign the illusion of impartiality. Good work Paul.

PTSD can hit you after the death of someone. I had it after my husband died. He appeared as real to me as he was in life, but it was a PTSD hallucination, well-known among people who grieve, particularly in highly stressful circumstances. They slowly went away, but it probably took a couple of months (or maybe 40 days, I'm not sure.) I now know how people think they see a ghost.

As far as eyewitness testimony goes, the people we know were there, the Jewish elders, were pretty confident that Jesus wasn’t the real deal.

👋👋 Paulogia. Honestly, I'm not interested in letters to churches, etc. Where are the contemporary writings of Jesus's time? Why didn't Jesus write anything for himself? He's supposedly God in human form, but he had no writing skills? All this "after the fact" collection of writings, unfortunately, isn't going to convince me.

I'm so glad somebody covered this. I Like the infographics show but this one needed a response

Yeah, I sometimes see my grandpa, I lived with him and was one of two people to find him when he passed, I have PTSD from that night and occasionally see him as if he were there, it's usually just a flash though, so yeah, post grief hallucinations are totally real.

I'm curious as to how you get permission to film in the Hogwarts library.

As always, amazing work Paul!

If the principle of embarrassment is a valid method of historical interpretation, then the story of the rape of the Sabine women proves that Romulus was a real person.

It stands to reason, the more magical you can make story sound, the more attention it should garner,

Brilliant and respectful takedown of Infographics' video Paul. Like most unexperienced apologists, it came across as a sad and desperate attempt to make their religion sound special and different than others. Infographic creators would do well to practice the outsider test for faith.

Every document is a valid historical document, depending on what you're trying to study. The history of forgery is fascinating. I took a pair of comparative literature courses taught by an atheist that used the old and new testament to learn about the people who wrote them. He didn't premise the course on what theu wrote being true, only that they were written and then we examined the beliefs and practices of the people who produced those works.

Drinking game: when "For the Bible tells me so." plays, take a drink. I'm using iced tea, though...

So what's next for Infographics? Did Orion really get killed by a giant Scorpion? Did Medusa really have snakes for hair? Did Hansel and Gretel really kill the witch? Did the goose really lay golden eggs? Did Santa really wear women's underwear?

Oh thank you for this! That was killing me after watching it.

This video should be required viewing for everyone who saw the Infographics Show.

When I first saw this I was hoping you'd make a response. Thanks Paul!

It's always amused me that christians construct lengthy, elaborate explanations for bible stories, particularly the resurrection. But ask them about the mythological tales of any other religion, and they are quite comfortable dismissing them with a sniff and a scoff that, "the writers of those tales lied." As long as it's the fantastical foundational story of some other religion, this is both self-evident, and a perfectly good reason to reject the story. No deep-dives and misrepresentations of psychology needed; no speculative probabilities; no social constructionist interpersonal communication theory. Clearly, some dude just doubled down on whacky lies he'd already told because he didn't want to look silly, and over the years the story fooled a whole bunch of people. And although not every part of the bible, not even the majority, can be explained away so simply, certainly the resurrection can be. It's on par with Muhammed's visit to heaven, Joseph Smith finding and translating golden plates which explained that Native Americans are actually Hebrews, or, well, anything L. Ron Hubbard wrote. Neither christians nor the bible can overcome even the first hurdle of proving that the resurrection story wasn't simply a tall-tale. The common christian counter to this argument is to challenge, "why would they lie?", but this is again answered by asking why any of the other founders of religions would, since all experienced persecution in the early days? The answer, as we know from the modern examples of Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard, is prestige and power within their small group of followers. Both those men were demonstrably egomaniacal and thrived on the adoration their followers gave them (in the case of Smith, even to the point of being willing to risk and then lose his life rather than lose face), and they both invented self-aggrandizing mythologies, which enhanced their positions as leaders. Again, this might or might not adequately explain the resurrection story, but if mainstream christians reject the claims of Mormonism because they believe its founding myths were fabricated, then logically, they ought to reject the new testament, and esp the resurrection, for the same reason.

The blogger Scott Alexander once posted about Mormonism as "the control group for Christianity" - it's every bit as well supported by early witnesses as the Gospel story is, but most Christians reject it anyway. Every argument for rejecting Mormonism is an equally good argument for rejecting the notion that any of the resurrection story literally happened.

'put out highly researched daily content' Does not compute.

Most of the people who converted to Christianity were gentiles, who had no previous notion of a messiah that had to be altered to fit Jesus. Few Jews, who did have such a notion, became Christian.

Writing a lie on a piece of paper does not make it true.

Bart Ehrman addressed the accurate recitation of scripture and found that's not actually true.

Nice that the cartoon shows Tiberius ruling over a Rome with St. Peter's and the Victor Emmanuel Monument.

The issue here around the 22 minute mark, is that none of disciples believed Jesus would resurrect. The reason we have the hallucination theory is because... 1.A man name Jesus did exist and secular historians agree on that. 2. Claims to have seen a risen version of Jesus has been substantiated. And this is the opinion of atheist historians, Jesus did exist and people claimed to have seen him after his death. So now we are left with a question. Did they see him? Or Did they thought they saw him? We are going off the assumption that they thought they saw him, because once again. The claims of seeing Jesus on that Sunday is true. So now the actual debate is did what they saw was real? And our best explaination, is grief hallucination? The disciples all had the exact hallucinations, about the same person, coming back to life and telling them the same thing. And 100s of other people also hallucinated the same thing?? 2 people alone having the same exact hallucination is a stretch. 2 people hallucinating at the same time is also a stretch, especially when the conditions for hallucinations don't exist

This US channel was never going to upset their ten million subscribers by being truthful, they are far happier reassuring their audiences core beliefs.

Every knee will bow, I truly am praying for you guys❤️

Thanks for this. I had discovered The Infographics Show a while back and was enjoying their videos. Then I hit this one, and was thinking, "they're not seriously going to try to argue the biblical stories are historical facts, are they?". Oh brother. Even without the knowledge you have, it was obvious to me from very early that they were attempting to look as "presenting both sides" whilst carefully choosing/distorting the skeptical views so they could easily debunk them. It probably sounds extremely convincing to the converted, but strikes as very dishonest to anyone with a balanced view. That threw into question every other video they made for me.

I get the distinct impression WLC had a hand in writing this Infographics video. Good take down, Paulogia, and please keep up the excellent work!

It's almost as if Infographics got their entire script from Lee Strobel's A Case for Easter...

Thank you for doing this response. I have followed and watched that channel and seen a large amount of their videos which were about as entertaining as this one. But seeing it gave me flashbacks to my childhood all throughout my school years growing up in rural Georgia. A lot of infographics videos ends with a more "tell us, what do you think?" to the subjects that aren't based on concrete fact. And this one came across as if stating a matter of fact. So again thank you for doing this video.

Wait... the Jewish church "split in two."? I was under the impression that Christianity didn't spread well among the Jewish people and it was primarily the gentiles that were converting. Wasn't that the whole point of the Council of Jerusalem? To decide if the gentile converts needed to convert to the Jewish faith to be Christian?

Every time people said they saw Elvis alive after he was dead, did these people dig up his body to prove them wrong?!? These are absolutely absurd assertions in defense of the Bible stories.

Only Paul's testimony is firsthand - "Jesus appeared to me" (1 Cor 15:8) and "God revealed His Son in me" (Gal. 1:16). All the gospels are not firsthand sources and the endings all get more embellished over time as if a legend is evolving. If you look up the meanings of the Greek words for "appeared" and "revealed" you'll find that the range of meaning can account for normal sight all the way to "seeing with the mind" or having a "visionary disclosure of transcendent secrets from heaven." Interestingly enough, Acts 26:19 calls Paul's experience a "vision from heaven." In other words, even though Jesus' physical body was not present on the earth, one could still claim Jesus had "appeared" to them in some type of visionary experience and this was accepted as a "resurrection appearance" in the 1 Cor 15 creed. Since the burden of proof is on the apologist to show that these people really saw Jesus alive again after his death, the evidence from the earliest and only firsthand source is insufficient to establish that claim. Paul uses the same verb for each "appearance" in 1 Cor 15:5-8 and so apologists do not have any evidence based reason to assume they were different in nature. Later, after the story evolved, is when we get the empty tomb, physical appearances and a witnessed physical ascension but, again, these are not firsthand sources and the stories they tell all look like a legend evolving with the apologetic purpose of showing a more corporeal/realistic resurrection - Lk. 24 "I'm _not_ a spirit, flesh and bone Jesus," Acts 1:3 "Provided many proofs he was alive," John 20 - Doubting Thomas story - "Those who believe without seeing are blessed." So to sum up, the evidence is insufficient to establish that anyone really saw a physically resurrected figure. Thus, the resurrection argument fails to persuade.

Great job as usual Paul. Excellent points. Well thought out. That's why I am a long time viewer :-)

In his book "Unapologetic," John Loftus, former Christian minister turned atheist, puts it well: ""I see absolutely no intrinsic probability to [ . . . ]the resurrection of a false prophet from the dead, or his ascension into the sky from which it was promised he would come again in the generation he was crucified." My sentiments exactly. I challenge anyone to maintain in this space that Jesus's stature as a false prophet does NOT falsify--all by itself--the doctrines of both the rsurrection and the Second Coming.

I saw this when they posted it and hoped you would make a video on it.

Interesting stuff I love the infographic show I've been powering watching it for 3 days a personal record for streaming. I couldn't stop thinking about this one I'm glad you weighed in.

Did Matthew and Luke think Mark was “reliable” when they were making tons of changes to it?

I enjoy the Infographic Show, yet this episode truly did need a well researched counter. Thank you for your efforts, you did an excellent job with reasoned and well stated arguments. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

How christians cope: While I am on this earth my faith will allow me to overcome any doubts that I have because after I die I will know everything. Say what!?

If they see the gospels as accurate, JC went on and on about rising from the dead before he actually died so it was not a 'new idea' to the disciples. Elijah and JC claimed to have resurrected people themselves and there was also a rumour quoted in the gospels that JC was a resurrected John the Baptist.

The Infographics Show has always been like this. Their videos are not "highly researched", they are mediocre at best and sometimes very strongly biased and inaccurate.

If jesus resurrected then what was the sacrifice? His "death" was not a sacrifice.

I remember reading research last year regarding how it's impossible for us to come up with something that we have never seen before. All mythical creatures are just normal creatures rearranged, you can't think of a color that you can't see, and the most fascinating one, that every single person you see in your dreams is someone that you've already seen in real life. I had been trying to find a reason as to why everyone in my dreams recently were either people who are close to me or who were famous. Turns out, because of the pandemic, I wasn't getting enough exposure to random strangers on the streets , so my brain was like okay... I guess you're putting together an IKEA cabinet with Brendan Fraser, then.

Thanks so much for your research. I was confused by some of the "facts" presented by the infographics. You cleared all that .

"James the brother of Jesus" recounted in Josephus was referring to a wholly different James and Jesus, the sons of Damneus. Jesus ben Damneus is named explicitly later in the passage; the christos thing is uncharacteristic of Josephus and is a later interpolation.

This reminds me of when another channel "History Buffs" let slide in a video that he thought the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod was a historically factual event. Religion can cause a lot of blind spots to even people who pride themselves on their knowledge of facts and history.

Thank you Paul for ftbtms, it has brought great joy and celebration to me.

There is a significant difference between "valid historical documents" and "genuine documents from history". Much of the bible falls into the second category, and virtually none of falls into the first.

I've only heard of the Infographics show in passing but kind of assumed it was like Kurzgesagt. Well, that'll teach me to assume stuff =/

Anyone who thinks that they couldn’t have rearranged Jesus’s story due to not wanting to get it wrong should really play the telephone game. No matter how much you want to convey the right message it will usually end up distorted in some way by the end of the telephone game.

Is it just me.. 90% of the comments on that video are identical? YOU ARE NOT ALONE As a Christian I’m impressed the respect from nonbelievers and this episode. Thanks everyone Nathan 475 I’m impressed at the respectfulness and introduction to both sides of the arguments in this video Jude Macarthur I’m impressed. Well researched, with the facts simply laid out without bias. Bravo Infographics Show

What kind of cult starts with a leader saying “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you?” or “I didn’t come to be served, but to serve”

Was Jesus Actually Resurrected? No.