Intelligent Christians believe these simplistic depictions of evangelical students schooling their atheist teachers give believers a false sense of security and superiority. Such stories go back at least to 1972, when Jack T Chick published the first version of Big Daddy? – the most widely distributed antievolution booklet in history. These supposedly true accounts describe plucky – and sometimes violent – students who humiliate atheist and/or evolutionist professors by proving God’s existence or disproving evolution. Greenleaf wrote The Testimony of the Evangelists, but the fanciful story of the student(s) challenging the atheist professor has all the earmarks of a popular evangelical meme, the atheist professor myth. He then became a Christian and wrote his apologetic masterpiece, The Testimony of the Evangelists.
In a shocking reversal, Greenleaf accepted Jesus’ resurrection as the best explanation for all the evidence.
Geisler, Patty Tunnicliffe, Reasons for Belief: Easy-to-Understand Answers to 10 Essential Questions 109 (Bethany House Publishers 2013).Ĭhange in Jesus’ disciples, and their subsequent willingness to suffer and die for their belief that Jesus had risen. could not explain explain away the dramatic However, Greenleaf was stunned by the powerful evidence that Jesus had indeed risen from the tomb. After much prodding, Greenleaf accepted the challenge and set out to disprove Jesus’ resurrection. One of his students (or two, three or “a few” students) challenged him to apply rules from his “previously defined atheist legal writing” to the resurrection account. He spoke openly and often in the classroom about how the resurrection of Jesus Christ was a made up fairy tale, a hoax that could only be believed by ignorant, unenlightened fools. He often made fun of his Christian students at Harvard Law School. Professor Greenleaf was an atheist or, in some versions of the story, a Jew. I prepared the following composite to include all the key elements of this oft-told tale.
Y‑Jesus, an online ministry, tells one of the most elaborate versions of the story. Numerous apologists tell variations of an inspiring story about how evidence for Jesus’ resurrection supposedly convinced this eminent professor of evidence to convert to Christianity. He also wrote the seminal work of modern legal apologetics, The Testimony of the Evangelists.
Simon Greenleaf (1783 – 1853), an eminent lawyer and founding father of the Harvard Law School, helped lay the foundations for state and federal rules of evidence.
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