Was the body of Christ stolen or was he Resurrected?Did Mary Magdalene have a hallucination of resurrection?

Question

During those times when Jesus lived there was a habit among occultist to steal dead body for the purpose of occultism, especially of great men. This tradition of occultist has been documented in many oriental cultures and thereby people burned the dead body to keep the Occultist at bay.

Answer 1

Dogs ate it.

Answer 2

There have been researchers that tend to believe that the body of Christ was actually stolen then you have the researcers that say no it was possible to have been risen from the dead.

My personal belief was that Mary Magdalene was actually Christ's bride, and at the time of the crucifixtion she was pregnant (or with child as it would have been called back then). And she was so distraught about Christ being killed the way he was that she was the person who put the guards to sleep with the help of the apostles that followed Christ while he was alive and together they moved the rock, removed the body and Mary Magdalene then took the body and hid it until after she knew it would be safe to flee with the body.

Needless to say, I don't have evidence of anything, and never will until my day of judgement, but, it seems really funny that there have been books of the bible cut out and never returned to it because the Pope's of the days have made the call to say what we should be able to read and not to read. I have a bible that has been passed down to every generation in my family, I am the 9th generation to get the bible, Iis is dated back to the late 1600's. And in this bible, there is a chapter called "the book of Mary" and this is the gospel according to Mary. It goes all the way up until when she when she fled to south africa to get away, and it speaks of the daughter she had.

If you do a little research and can get into the Vatican's website, there is a way that you can get into some of the "ancient" books of the bible as what they have marked them as. But, I can't give out the address because I found it one day by pure luck doing a search engine search for research for one of my college classes many years ago.

Answer 3

Well, dear, if no one BUT Mary had seen the Resurrected Lord, you might have a point.

However, He was seen by several HUNDRED people at various times over a forty day period following the Resurrection. Since not all these sightings were at one time, we can rule out mass hysteria. Since He was also witnessed moving, talking, breathing and given the climate and the time of year, probably also sweating, welllll, I think we can rule out occultists stealing the body.

Nice try, though. Someone unaccustomed to rational thought processes might take your nonsense seriously.

Answer 4

Neither. Jesus was probably alive.
1.Blood and water does not "gush forth" from a body without arterial circulation.
2.He was mis-indentified as a gardner. This means he was disguised. Which means he was in danger of being harmed if discovered.
3.The 100lb. weight of herbs/incenses was for healing. Jews with the exception of those in preceeding times living in Egypt did not annoint the corpse, as it is considered unclean. Besides a corpse does not require that much annointing.
4. Since the writings are not those of contemporaries on must consider other motives for concocting the story in such an inconsistent fashion.
5. For someone who wanted to have his words heard & really get the attention of nay-sayers, he missed his opportunity, by not going to his executioners to tell them that they needed to find a different line of work, because they had clearly failed at their task.
6.He would have given them another chance to get it right.

Answer 5

Do you actually think that it makes sense that Jesus' friends would steal his body and make up a story about this resurrection just to fool people? Did they get rich off this scheme? Or did they suffer persecution, and even death for their fun?? What a dumb idea was that?? Wow.. Oh, well I suppose they all recanted and said it was all a joke that went terribly bad.. What nobody admitted it was a lie?? Hum mm... What are the other possibilities?

Answer 6

Jesus' message is important regardless of the answer to the question.

There is a lot of irrelevant stuff in the Gospels about prophecies, miracles and Resurrection intended to "prove" the validity of Christ's teachings.

Those with faith don't need proof.

Answer 7

Read the Bible. Jesus was seen by the Apostles, as well as thousands of others in and around Jerusalem. If Jesus had not been resurrected as it is clearly stated in the Bible, us christians would not have the Blessed Hope ensured by what Christ did for us on the cross. How much faith do you place in any politician?

Answer 8

That was part of why they made it next to impossiable to get into the tomb, they didn't want the Apostoles to take the body. Hate to break it to you but he resurrected long before it was stolen. Now if you have another theroy, like they believed the body was gone and someone came in later then you may be on to something.

Answer 9

he was under guard

there is a great cover story in the Talmud where the Gardener Judas moved the body to keep the disciples form taking it - sounds like damage control eh?

the romans made stealing a bady a capital crime after it... sounds like something went down and they were ticked huh

in the end people do not go to their deaths to defend a lie as the eyewitnesses did

conclusion
He is risen

Answer 10

This open ended question is going to get a variety of answers. Christians are going to say, "No, look at the gospels." Atheists, non-believers, and the rest will say, "Interesting point.", "You hit the nail on the head.", or something along those lines. What exactly are you trying to get at here? This question isn't really going to do much for anyone. It'll just incite rioting and pandemonium. Heh, heh.

Answer 11

, Bible says ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust, But if that old flesh Body would have laid there when he came in his New Body no one would have believed him, "as it was "no one recognized him ,his appearance was changed his Body was New, It ate , drank and entered rooms when the doors and windows were closed. A body we all should want...Also remember those two women had been anointing that body with Spices and Oil, They had no trouble getting in the Tomb.