Do you believe Jesus actually physically rose from the dead?

Question

Or is it a metaphor for how the Christian religion arises from Jesus' death some 60 years later?

Answer 1

Neither.

Jesus died. His followers convinced themselves and each other that he was physically resurrected, so this remained the belief of the church that they started in order to worship their teacher.

Answer 2

Saying it was a metaphor doesn't explain anything. By the time Jerusalem was sacked by Rome in 70 CE, Christianity was already a major force in that region and elsewhere. Rome was concerned about it. The emperors variously embraced Christianity or violently suppressed it. And it was supposedly all started by a group of twelve men, including Paul, who had been a Jewish Pharisee who hated Christians and wanted to wipe them out until his conversion. Apart from Paul, the picture of the other 11 apostles is a group of weak, frail, earth-bound men. Utterly human and a little cowardly. They were fishermen, tax collectors- hardly revolutionaries.

There is nothing else like this in the history of religion. These frail men suddenly became on fire, consumed with a passion that carried many of them to their deaths. Something had to happen to cause such a dramatic change in them. They claimed that it was because they had seen Jesus, alive, after they had seen him executed. Impossible. A miracle. And yet, God specializes in miracles. If you don't believe that explanation then the onus is on you to come up with a more plausible explanation.

Sometimes there is a choice between what is physically impossible and what we know about human nature. There is a section in one of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books. They are talking about supernatural occurrences, and there is this one girl supposedly receiving psychic information on stock prices and she just keeps repeating them over and over. The clinician in charge dismisses it as being some hoax, some elaborate fraud even though he can't figure out how it's done. Dirk Gently's response is, "Yes, but she wouldn't do that!" What we know about human nature makes it extremely unlikely for someone to go to all the trouble of perpetuating a hoax that has no benefit to them, can never be revealed as a hoax and causes them so much trouble and inconvenience.

Answer 3

YES! That is why Jesus asked for something to eat when with his disciples, to show them he was physically alive---and that he had hunger, just like we do. John 21- read that.
Jesus did also appear to his disciples in 2 different forms too, because Jesus is God and can do that! But did rise from the dead physically too--to show that HE is the only one who can defeat death, and that he fulfilled the scriptures.

Answer 4

In the first place, I as a muslims believe that he was not touched and crucified. God saved him because Jesus was his prophet and messenger to teach and convey God's message. HE WAS LIFED UP IN THE HEAVENS. Somebody else was killed in crucifiction and substitued for him as per Islamic revelations in the Quran.

So it looked as if he was crucified but not in actual. Let's check what happened the last night/day of his life in the world and the plotting of Jesus; another person was also missing in the day ofthe execution in addition to Jesus. Please check the history correctly in those days of crucifiction.!

Answer 5

No its true. God rose jesus from the dead after 3 days jesus was crucified. and when they when into jesus tomb to see if his body was there and the sheet was empty jesus was gone. God rose Jesus from the dead.

Answer 6

What does the Bible say? At 2 Pet. 3:18 says: "Why, even Christ died once for all concerning sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, that hemight lead you to God, he being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit."

As regards Jesus’ resurrection, Peter says that “in the spirit he was brought to life.” This explains why on the resurrection morning when God’s angel rolled the stone from the door of the sepulcher the soldier guards did not see Jesus rise from the dead and come out, although they did see the materialized angel. (Matt. 28:1-4) This explains why, when the resurrected Jesus met two disciples walking that day to Emmaus and went along with them and started to take supper with them, they did not know him until he began to serve the bread; and then he disappeared.—Luke 24:13-35.

6 This explains why, when the apostles and other disciples were met together in Jerusalem behind closed doors for fear of the fanatical Jews, Jesus must have come right through the walls. For he amazingly stood right in among them, and, after eating and talking with them, he vanished from them, but not through any unbolted door. (Luke 24:36-44; John 20:19-24) Of course, for Jesus, who had been brought to life in the spirit, to make himself visible to his disciples, he had to materialize on each occasion a body of flesh and bones. Jesus himself then said: “A spirit does not have flesh and bones just as you behold that I have.” Since the flesh-and-bones disciples could not see what was not flesh and bones, they could not see a spirit and they could not see the resurrected Jesus, who was “in the spirit.”—Luke 24:39.

Answer 7

I testify with every fibre of my being that Christ was crucified, buried in the tomb, and rose again and lives, as He said he would, and all for us, His brothers and sisters.

He took upon himself as a precursor to death, all the suffering and sin of the whole human family, so that if we repent and follow Him, we may inherit all that the Father has.

I testify this to be true, even in the sacred name of Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

While there are many metaphors in the Bible, in this case, I believe He really did literally rise from the dead in a full resurrected, immortal form.

Answer 9

Yes, Jesus actually rose from the dead and ascended into the heaven's, over five hundred people witnessed this.

Answer 10

Jesus rose from the dead.

Answer 11

I BELIEVE SO. I DON'T SEE WHY NOT!I AM A HINDU. SRI SAI BABA
LEFT HIS BODY FOR THREE DAYS, AND HE CAME BACK. TIS MAY SOUND LIKE A CLICHE, BUT THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF EYEWITNESSES, IN MODERN DAYS!MY GRANDMA SAW IT HAPPEN!IF YOU DON'T BELEIVE ME I'LL ASK HER FOR YOU! IF SAI BABA COULD DO IT , WHY NOT JESUS?FOR ALL I KNOW THERE IS A 50-50 % CHANCE THAT IT IS JUST A METAPHOR!