Month: July 2019

Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 7: The “Break their Legs” Objection

Peter Kreeft’s Objection #2 against the Survival Theory (TST) is based on a dubious passage from the 4th Gospel: The fact that the Roman soldier did not break Jesus’ legs, as he did to the other two crucified criminals (Jn 19:31-33), means that the soldier was sure Jesus was dead. Breaking the legs hastened the death Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 7: The “Break their Legs” Objection

Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 6: Objections Based on the 4th Gospel

WHERE WE ARE AT In this series of posts I will defend the Survival Theory (TST) against the nine objections that Peter Kreeft puts forward in Chapter 8 of Handbook of Christian Apologetics (hereafter: HCA).   Kreeft’s nine objections to TST can also be found in an online article at the Strange Notions website. Kreeft mistakenly takes Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 6: Objections Based on the 4th Gospel

Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 4: The ‘Where Did Jesus Go?’ Objection

WHERE WE ARE AT In this series of posts I will defend the Survival Theory (TST) against the nine objections that Peter Kreeft puts forward in Chapter 8 of Handbook of Christian Apologetics (hereafter: HCA).   Kreeft’s nine objections to TST can also be found in an online article at the Strange Notions website. Kreeft mistakenly takes Defending the Swoon Theory – Part 4: The ‘Where Did Jesus Go?’ Objection