William Craig's Case for the Resurrection of Jesus - Part 25: Craig's Three Key Historical Claims

 THE SUB-ARGUMENT FOR PREMISE (B)

In Part 24 of this series, I argued that the sub-argument for the key premise (B) in Craig's case was dubious because it contains a dubious premise:

1c. IF Craig's three key historical claims can be established as being historical facts and no plausible nautural explanation can account for them as well as the hypothesis "God raised Jesus from the dead", THEN the hypothesis "God raised Jesus from the dead" is the most plausible explanation of Craig's three key historical claims being historical facts.

C. Craig's three key historical claims can be established as being historical facts AND no plausible nautural explanation can account for Craig's three key historical claims being historical facts as well as the hypothesis "God raised Jesus from the dead."

 THEREFORE:

B. The hypothesis "God raised Jesus from the dead" is the most plausible explanation of Craig's three key historical claims being historical facts.

I argued that premise (1c) is dubious because it is based on a False Dilemma.  Craig failed to take into account other supernatural hypotheses besides the one he favors: "God raised Jesus from the dead."  Furthermore, premise (1c) might be simply false, if I am correct that there are other supernatural hypotheses that provide explanations of Craig's three key historical claims being historical facts that are more plausible than the hypothesis "God raised Jesus from the dead."

I also suspect that premise (C) is dubious or false, because I have doubts about both of the claims asserted by premise (C). If premise (C) is dubious or false, then that will give us another good reason to reject Craig's sub-argument for premise (B).

THE SUB-ARGUMENT FOR PREMISE (C)

Here is the sub-argument that supports premise (C):

2. Craig's three key historical claims can be established as being historical facts.

A1. No plausible nautural explanation can account for Craig's three key historical claims being historical facts as well as the hypothesis "God raised Jesus from the dead." 

THEREFORE:

C. Craig's three key historical claims can be established as being historical facts AND no plausible nautural explanation can account for Craig's three key historical claims being historical facts as well as the hypothesis "God raised Jesus from the dead."