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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