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

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How to Establish Whether 500 People Actually Saw Jesus

"I don't think it's troubling to invoke the idea that there were individuals who claim they saw Jesus alive afterwards," he says. "This isn't troubling for us to explain without having to invoke a resurrection." Paul also being our earliest source of the New Testament claims at one point that Jesus appeared to 500 people, and so is he right or not? The thing about seeing things is that we have all the time we have people who see things that aren’t there,. And a lot of evangelical Christians say, look, if you've got group visions, you can't have group hallucinations?"

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