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#35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God?

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The Evidence of an Empty Tomb

There are very big problems with thinking there was a tomb at all. He's presupposing that the gospel story is right, that Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus the afternoon he was crucified and put him in a family tomb. And on the third day, women came and found the tomb empty. So how likely is it that they made an exception in the case of Jesus? I mean, we would because he's the son of God; so why wouldn't people want to see him alive? We have no literary description of a crucifixion from the ancient world. Like nobody describes how they did it. Were they tied? Were they cross beams? Were they stakes? There's

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