Is the resurrection just a legendary development?

Is the resurrection just a legendary development?

Many critics will point to gospels and argue that there seems to be a development that further mythicise that first Easter. Does the the rest of the New Testament offer any clues?

This a quick teaser from our recent video, 'Did the resurrection stories develop like legends?'

[resurrectionnerd]

The stories basically grow like this:

Paul - visions
Mark - Empty tomb but no appearance narrative.
Matthew - appearance to two women outside the tomb and appearance narrative in Galilee where some doubt.
Luke - erases the Galilean appearance tradition and only has Jesus appear in or around Jerusalem. The story looks concocted in order to refute a more "spiritual" view of Jesus - Lk. 24:39. Ascension narrative.
John - ascension is assumed as tradition. Jesus can teleport through locked doors, Doubting Thomas story and another appearance in Galilee.

Does this look like consistent eyewitness testimony?

[davethebrahman]

Paul’s claim about the ‘witnesses’ is probably hearsay, 2nd hand at best. Further, we don’t even know that the alleged ‘creed’ even existed two minutes before Paul wrote it down, nor that it is even a creed (it might be Paul attempting to sound poetic). We can’t ascertain if there were 500 witnesses or none at all. This is just religious believers clutching at straws, the sort of thing that appalling fellow from Testify does all the time.

[JumpingJack-jkit]

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