DID JESUS RISE FROM THE DEAD - PART FOUR

                                      DID JESUS RISE             FROM  THE DEAD?

    PART FOUR

    (copied from
      Y-Jesus.com)


Something Happened.

But it wasn't the end. The Jesus movement didn't disappear, (obviously ) and in fact Christianity exists today as the world's largest religion. Therefore we have got to know what happened after Jesus' body was taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb.

In a New York Times article, Peter Steinfels states the startling events that took place three days after Jesus' death. 

"Shortly after Jesus was executed, His disciples were suddenly galvanized from a baffled and cowering group into people whose message about a Living Jesus and a Coming Kingdom, preached at the risk of their lives, eventually changed an empire. Something happened....  But exactly what?"

That is the question we have to answer with an investigation into the facts. There are only five plausible explanations for  Jesus' alleged resurrection, as portrayed in the New Testament.
  
*   Jesus didn't really die          on the cross.
*   The "resurrection" was
     a conspiracy.
*   The disciples were 
     hallucinating.
*   The account is 
     legendary
*   It really happened.

Let us work our way through these options and see which one best fits the facts..


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