Jesus’ Disciples Did Not Hallucinate

Every now and then I would come across a non-believer in the resurrection, when asked why, they would come out and share that the disciples probably hallucinated and suffered under some sort of mass delusion.

Dr. Peter Kreeft, one of today’s most brilliant theologians, has a must-read blog post that simply explains thirteen reasons as to why it is illogical to believe that the disciples hallucinated.

Some of my favorite reasons:

(5) Hallucinations usually happen only once, except to the insane. This one returned many times, to ordinary people (Jn 20:19-21:14; Acts 1:3).

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(7) Not only did the disciples not expect this, they didn’t even believe it at first. Neither Peter, nor the women, nor Thomas, nor the eleven believed. They thought he was a ghost; he had to eat something to prove he was not (Lk 24:36-43).

(8) Hallucinations do not eat. Yet the resurrected Christ did, on at least two occasions (Lk 24:42-43; Jn 21:1-14).

Check out the rest here.

Added: Some have objected to the post because the author presupposes that the Bible is a reliable document. The issue of the trustworthiness of the Scriptures is another topic altogether, but suffice it to say that the Gospel accounts were not written together in one room; they were written by four individuals who were either eyewitnesses to the event, or had interviewed those who were eyewitnesses. If there was not any truth to these claims, they would not have passed the sniff-test in the first century. To learn more, check out this article.

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