Defending the Faith: Evidence of Jesus Christ's resurrection
Many skeptics lightly dismiss the story of Christ's resurrection
from the dead as merely ancient folklore, a tall tale that
emerged and grew with the retelling over generations.  But
several lines of evidence and argument demonstrate this
dismissal to be untenable. I will briefly outline one of them.
In 1 Corinthians 15:1, the apostle Paul tells his audience in
the Greek city of Corinth that he's going to summarize for them
the gospel (in Greek, the "good news") that he had already
preached to them.  He then explains, in 15:3-8, that "I handed
on to you, as of primary importance, what I had in turn
received, that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures, and that he was buried and was raised from the dead
on the third day, according to the scriptures, and that he
appeared to Cephas (that is, to Peter), then to the Twelve.
"Thereafter, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at
once, most of whom are still alive, although some