The impulse to reject the idea of a resurrection even before the evidence is examined does prompt a question, though. Why must we accept this constraint? I know it is a popular maneuver, but it strikes me as self-serving in a way that is not quite right. And here I need to remind you of a warning I offered earlier.4 Certain details of one story will not be at home in a story of a different sort. If you disqualify the details of one worldview based on standards appropriate in a different kind of world, I think you will come perilously close to arguing in a circle. Would it not be best, rather,
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