1 Corinthians 15:3-8
Paul's Creed
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
There are many who do not believe in the history of Jesus or that He died on the cross and in three days was raised from the dead...There are many who do not believe that He died for our sins...While there are many with the exact same evidence believe that Jesus existed, and was resurrected on a cross...
St. Paul believed these things and wrote to the Corinthians about these things...
But two thousand years have passed and many of today question these things...But there are modern believers of Jesus being put on the cross for our sins, being raised from the dead, and then being raised from the dead on the third day...
William Craig James writes that, "Defenders of the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection have been all over the map in terms of assessing the force of the evidence...Richard Swinburne would be at the high end of the spectrum, arguing that the probability of the resurrection is around 97%...Timothy and Lydia McGrew don’t assign a final probability but would also consider it very high...Stephen Davis, on the other hand, would be at low end of the spectrum, modestly claiming that the evidence makes it rational to believe in Jesus’ resurrection (which leaves it open that it is also rational for someone not to believe in the resurrection)...Gary Habermas, Michael Licona, and I argue that Jesus’ resurrection is both the best explanation of the evidence as well as a good explanation...N. T. Wright makes no claim at all about the strength of the case for Jesus’ resurrection, holding that the evidence warrants belief in the empty tomb and post-mortem appearances of Jesus and simply inviting his reader to “try on” the Christian worldview and see if it doesn’t make the best sense...None of these thinkers would require that the evidence be compelling in order to warrant belief in Jesus’ resurrection."...