Do you think the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was Staged?

Question

Why or why not...would help if you could cite your sources.


Thanks evweebody :)

Answer 1

1. There were hundreds of witnesses. (1 Corinthians 15:4-6)

2. If the body was stolen, how did they get past the Roman guards? If the guards let something they were to guard escape, it would have cost them their life.

3. If the body was stolen, why pay the guards to say that? The logical thing would be just to let them to tell how it was stolen . Then tell them "Go find the body!" so that your life will be spared.

4. When Peter and the Apostles preached that Jesus rose from the dead (Acts 2), why was it not openly disputed? Why did someone not show the evidence that Jesus was still dead?

5. If it were a hoax, why were the followers of Christ willing to suffer so much for a lie. History tells us that most of the Apostles died horrible deaths. Many including the Apostles were beaten, put in jail, and persecuted.

6. If the body was stolen, who moved the stone away from the grave? The stone was very large. The four (or more) women who came to the grave were wondering "Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?" (Mark 16:3) The implication is that the stone was too large for four women to move. Again, if someone moved it, how did they do it without the guards noticing?

7. Why would someone other than the followers of Christ take the body? If the Jews took it, why was the body not produced to stop the spread of Christianity? The Roman guards were placed to make sure no one took the body. They would not have taken it because they wanted the unrest to calm.

8. Non-Christian historians, such as Josephus, wrote about the events concerning Christ.

If the body existed, someone would have produced it! Either the Jews to stop the spread of Christianity or the Romans to stop the unrest. The guards would have especially wanted to recover the body in hopes to spare their own life.

Once the body was recovered, the Jewish leaders would have made sure that fact was openly known!

The Resurrection was real!

Answer 2

If you research it you will find that Paul pretty much was the big seller of the resurrection. He was the one to went to Rome and got the Romans to convert. He was all big on Jesus being the Son of God and also that he was God. There were followers of Jesus doing what Jesus said and living like he did and they were Jewish. It was Rome and the Catholic church before it was the Catholic Church that went and took all there stuff and destryed it. It seemed like to me that James and Mary Magdaline were the leaders of this real following of Jesus and they didnt know him as a God or Son of God. They just saw him as a prophet and great man and miracle worker. Read about the gnostics. The Jews at the time and why the Jew dont think Jesus was who Christians say he was. Also read about the Islam religion as well. Read Josephus the historian. You will wish as a Christian you didnt. :(

Answer 3

If it were staged, Christianity would not be around today. The truth always comes out. The fact is more than 500 people felt or saw his resurrected body. But the best proof that he rose from the dead is the fact that he answers prayers. If you are not a Christian you will say we are delusional but there are so many authenticated miracles to prove it.
Have a great day!

Answer 4

Nope, I don't believe it happened at all, no wires, no trick photography, no mirrors, just didn't happen.

The fact that things weren't written down means that nobody has any sources (although I'm sure people will be citing a book that was written a couple of centuries later - and chinese whispers will have added to the original "story")

Answer 5

Your charm to antiquity would not flow disregarded. that's like asserting "Why do Christians worship Jesus, whilst Judaism got here first. Even Jesus became a Jew!" Its all adapting form the previous. Islam got here from Christianity which got here from Judaism and all of those Abrahamic religions locate their routes in different previous religions, going decrease back to the Egyptian faith and Zoroastrianism

Answer 6

There is no credible evidence to demonstrate the Jesus was a historical person, much less that any of the events in his life are anything more than poorly written myth.

Answer 7

No. If it had been staged, then why would the priests want to bribe the guards to say that they fell to sleep on the watch? Why also would non-biblical books report Jesus as raised.

Source: Look in the gospels at the burial and resurrection.

Answer 8

That is highly improbable. Consider if some people said that someone who was witnessed to be dead had appeared to them; what would be the first thing you do? Check the grave...duh. How long would the early Christian Church have lasted if the pharisees had said "nu uh...heres the body"?

And why did so many people die for Jesus, especially the apostles and early church members who would have certainly known if they were dying for a lie?

Answer 9

The New Testament is reliable

First of all, the New Testament documents have a greater reliability to them in any other set of ancient documents in existence. The New Testament documents are 99.5% textually pure. This means that there is less than 1/2 of 1% of all the 26,000 copies we have of the various documents included in the New Testament. Added to this the incredible redundancy of copies, and their almost 100 percent agreement, and we can easily conclude that the transmission of the documents to us has been extremely reliable. If anyone or to dismiss the New Testament documents by saying that they are corrupted, that he must also throw out all other ancient documents including those of the writings of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and many others, etc., because none of them come close to approaching the number of manuscripts in existence nor the reliability, nor the accuracy of the copies then exists in the New Testament documents.
Second, since the documents are reliable then what we must do is look at them to determine whether or not the content supports the resurrection of Jesus. At this point, it becomes very easy to demonstrate this since the Bible definitely teaches that Jesus rose from the dead. There are many scriptures that teach Jesus' resurrection. Following are three of them.

* Luke 24:56, "and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead? 6 "He is not here, but He has risen..."
* John 2:19-21, "Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 20The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" 21But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken."
* 1 Cor. 15:3-4, "For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures."

Did Jesus rise from the dead? According to the Bible, yes He did.

Answer 10

(A) It has never even been proven that such a person ever lived.

(B) It has never been proven that (if he lived) he was crucified.

(C) If he was put in a cave after he appeared to be dead and then his body wasn't there that just proves that either he wasn't dead or somebody took his body.

The whole Jesus story was invented decades afetr he supposedly lived. It's mostly bits and pieces of other warmed over stories.