A Medical Analysis of the Hallucination Hypothesis

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A Medical Analysis of the Hallucination Hypothesis

Jesus’s disciples experienced something that made them believe Jesus bodily resurrected from the dead after a grisly death by crucifixion. As a naturalistic explanation to explain away the biblical narrative, critical scholars have proposed that Jesus’s disciples were hallucinating when they saw the resurrected Jesus. This has been referred to as the hallucination hypothesis. Dr. Bergeron provides a medical analysis of hallucination hypotheses and explains why they are unsupportable and inconsistent with current medical understanding.

Links and Resources:

• The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Medical Doctor Examines the Death and Resurrection of Christ