| -Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary, vol.1
(New York: Funk and Wagnalls Publishing Company,1976), 290.
Defined as "any of numerous auditory, visual, or tactile perceptions that
have no external cause or stimulus." (emphasis added.)
-Hanegraaff, Hank. Resurrection. (Nashville, Tn: Word
Publishing, 2000), 45.
Attempts to explain away the post-resurrection appearances of Christ as
hallucinations do not stand up in the cold, hard light of facts. First,
hallucinations in reality are subjective and scarce. Yet Christ appeared
to many people during a long period of time. As noted by psychologist Dr.
Gary Collins, "Hallucinations are individual occurences. By their very nature
only one person can see a given hallucination at a time. They certainly aren't
something which can be seen by a group of people. Neither is it possible
that one person could somehow induce a hallucination in somebody else. Since
an hallucination exists only in this subjective, personal sense, it is obvious
that others cannot witness it."1
| 1. Habermas and Flew, Did Jesus Rise from the Dead, 50. (Habermas cites
personal correspondence from Dr. Collins, 21 February 1977.) |
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