Clarifying Catholicism

Nov 14 2024 79 ep. 14 mins 7
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Seeing Dead People (The Historical Jesus Episode 10)

Nov 14 2024 5 mins  
"Jesus was seen and heard by multiple people at different times, as well as at the same time. Jesus was the victim of violence. His presence instilled fear and doubt in some participants. He spoke fairly briefly and offered comfort before disappearing. He gave guidance, made requests, and issued commands. He seemed quite real and solid. He appeared and disappeared in unusual ways,

What did the Apostles think would Happen after Jesus Died? (The Historical Jesus Episode 9)

Nov 12 2024 6 mins  
"Allison argues, as do most historical Jesus scholars, that even Jesus misunderstood His Father’s plan for Him. This would make sense given His statement in Mark that not even the Son will know when the resurrection will happen."

Was Jesus’s Body Stolen? (The Historical Jesus Episode 8)

Oct 11 2024 11 mins  
"Pope Gregory the Great, a highly intelligent man, once heard a story that a dead Roman craftsman, who was buried in a church, began shouting “I burn! I burn!” The next day his clothes were found but no body was there. Pope Gregory believed that this man had gone to Hell. This shows that mystical missing bodies are not just a phenomenon confined to ancient myths and legends; ra

Was Jesus Actually Buried? (The Historical Jesus Part 7)

Oct 11 2024 9 mins  
"Most scholars agree that Jesus was tortured and killed in perhaps the most humiliating fashion of the age. If Christians didn’t bother covering that up, why would they obsess over how He was buried? It would make no sense to let the embarrassment of the crucifixion stand but take issue with how He was buried. I’ve mentioned in previous episodes how many of the stories the Gosp

Jesus’s Appearances to Peter and Paul (The Historical Jesus Part 6)

Sep 27 2024 10 mins  
"The evidence is abundant. The fish-catching story in Luke 5 actually belongs after Mary Magdalene sees the empty tomb, and this is significant. As I’m about to explain, it means that I lied in last episode. We actually DO know when the first appearance to Peter was that Paul mentions. It was during this story! And there’s a very simple explanation for why." Dr. Alli

The Historicity of the Resurrection Apparitions (The Historical Jesus Part 5)

Sep 20 2024 12 mins  
"As we covered in our segment on memory research, this does NOT imply Mary didn’t see an empty tomb. On the contrary, given how little the two accounts share, it is more plausible that Mary saw an empty tomb, told this experience to several people, and we ended up with two very separate accounts about the same event." Dr. Allison's book here: https://www.amazon.com

The Earliest Resurrection Accounts (The Historical Jesus Part 4)

Sep 13 2024 8 mins  
"If I said, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He wanted to find India but instead arrived in North America,” you could probably tell that the first half of the sentence came from a different source. And you’d be right. “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue” is a pre-existing nursery rhyme that helped schoolkids memorize this fact. Likewise, there are certain

Historical Jesus Studies Today (The Historical Jesus Part 3)

Sep 06 2024 14 mins  
"Every memory a person forms undergoes distortions, and the more time that passes, the more distortions occur. And remember, Jesus died roughly around 33 AD. St. Paul’s letters, the earliest written accounts of Jesus, did not appear until around 51 AD. That’s 18 years of distortion, and though the Catholic Church teaches that God inspires scripture, we also teach that He w

A History of Historical Jesus Studies (The Historical Jesus Part 2)

Sep 01 2024 11 mins  
"Popes discouraged Catholics from getting involved with historical Jesus studies. In fact, there were dozens of decrees throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries forbidding Catholics from studying the Bible outside of Church-sanctioned activities. As harsh as this sounds, I don’t blame the popes. By this point, from a Catholic perspective, scholars had shred Jesus apart.

The Importance of Historical Jesus Studies (The Historical Jesus Part 1)

Aug 20 2024 7 mins  
Some of you may recall from my Ecumenical Councils series that the Church spent hundreds of years discussing, deliberating, and murdering each other over the identity of Christ. There’s a big difference between Jesus being some wise guy and Him being the incarnate Son of God. Even within His divinity, if you believe in that, there are huge differences between a hippy messiah and