A Faulty Line of Reasoning

Many have tried to refute the resurrection of Jesus the Christ, but they cannot succeed by using this specific line of reasoning: “It is highly improbable that Jesus rose from the grave, because there is a vast shortage of factual/reliable examples of any other resurrections of having actually taken place.”

Here is a reason why:

“Earman [i.e., John Earman, “Bayes, Hume, and Miracles,” Faith and Philosophy 10, no. 3 (1993): 293-310.] shows that the probability of the resurrection cannot be assessed by means of a simple-minded appeal to the frequency of resurrection-type events because such an approach would not only rule out the resurrection hypothesis but also many of the non-statistical hypotheses of the advanced sciences, e.g., proton decay, which has never been observed but which scientists are investing millions of dollars and vast amounts of time to discover.” [Taken from Five Views on Apologetics, 124]

Though many have attempted to discredit the resurrection story of Jesus the Christ, they cannot do so by using the lack of frequent, reliable, factual resurrection stories argument.

JDG