Habermas Reading Report

Habermas Reading Report

Introduction

Habermas, G. and Licona, M. have written a guiding book for the people belonging from the religion of Christianity. The moral of the book is to give guidance to Christianity believers who can give answer to the question of people regarding rebirth of the Jesus Christ. The book is a tutorial for Christians, provides evidences on the believe that there will be a rebirth of Jesus Christ and help Christians in conveying the message to people of different religions in the world. The guides Christians in defending their belief regarding rebirth of their messenger, Jesus Christ.

Discussion

Resurrection is the central point of believers in Christianity. Believers and non-believers agree that Christians believe that Jesus Christ will reborn and without the faith of resurrection the religion of Christianity is meaningless. The first chapter emphasize on providing the proofs that there will be a day when Jesus Christ will born again. The evidences support the belief of Christian and help believers in proving there point. After providing evidences, author in chapter 2 briefly discusses five historical points which include: first multiple, independent witnesses that is when many witnesses do not copy each other but say the same thing then a certain event will happen; second enemy witness that is when an enemy accepts about a happening of a certain event; third embraced witness that is when the author does not create an event on his own but defines a fact, fourth eye witness that is seeing is believing and fifth is early testimony that is the time duration about an event. The authors Habermas and Licona than explains the strategy to persuade non-believers which is called 'Minimal Facts Approach' that states only fact that are supported by evidences and scholars that accept the believe of Christians that Jesus will reborn. ...