Arguments against the Ressurection of Jesus

#1 The disciples stole Jesus' body

If anyone stole the body of Jesus the Roman authority had the power to track them down and take the body back. This is what would have happened in order to prove his followers wrong, but didn't because the religious leaders and the guards knew the truth of what happened.

A Roman guard would never fall asleep on his shift. If a Roman guard was caught sleeping, he would be killed in his sleep. Is it possble for all the guards to have fallen asleep at the same time? Even if so, it would be impossible for a few regular guys to break a Roman seal, move a 2 ton stone, unwrap Jesus' body and carry him away without waking up even one of the guards. Could a few disciples carrying a dead body move faster than a Roman guard?

#2 The disciples went to the wrong tomb

All the Jewish and Roman leaders would have had to do is go to the right tomb.

#3 The disciples and guards had hallucinated

In order to hallucinate, you must have a mental state of expectancy in that which you hallucinate about. You can't hallucinate about something that is alien to your own nature. Many Jews didnt believe in a resurrection. The ones who did, believed the resurrection would be at the end of time before the last Judgment. None of them expected Jesus to rise from the dead. You can't have the disciples and the guards all having the same hallucination at the same time that someone comes to steal the body, and then 500 people see the resurrected Jesus in hallucinations over a period of 40 days. This is psychologically impossible.

#4 Jesus resuscitated in the tomb

You don't resuscitate after a Roman crucifixion, period!

Blood and water flowed from his side when he was pierced. The water seperates from the blood only after you're DEAD.

#5 All the followers of Jesus were lying about the resurrection

No one would ever allow themselves to be tortured for something they know to be a lie.

Barthalomew- Skinned alive by a whip in Armenia

Andrew- crucified

Peter- crucified upside down

Thomas- pierced to death by a sword near Maydrus

Luke- hanged in Greece

Mark- dragged to death in the streets of Alexandria

Paul- 5 times beaten with whips, stoned, 3 times beaten with rods, imprisoned, etc.

John- boiled alive but didn't die

Stephen- Stoned to death in Jerusalem

You dont pay that kind of price for a lie, especially if your dying alone.
If they are miles apart from each other, with no communication, not knowing whether or not you would see each other again, there is no way all of them would accept a horrible martyrs death and not one spill the truth. NOT A SINGLE ONE renegged their story. Again, the psychology doesn't make any sense here.

If someone claimed they would die and rise again 3 days later, you might think they were a nut. But if they died and did resurrect as they said, you should probably stop and take a second look at that person.

So you must decide according to the facts (there are hundreds of more facts that prove Jesus to be the Messiah other than these).

Was Jesus God or was he a nut?

If you're not going to call him God dont call him a good and wise teacher.

He could have been wise and tricked people into believing he was God, but then he wouldn't be good.

He could have been good and crazy making himself to be God, but he wouldn't be very wise.

Either the Father raised Jesus from the dead and he came out of that tomb alive, or not and he was a lying lunatic. There is no middle ground.

ONLY GOD IS GOOD. If Jesus did not resurrect then he is by no means good and our faith in him is in vain. If Jesus did resurrect, then He is God...King of kings and Lord of lords and will one day come back to judge the world, as he said.


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