2. The second is the historical evidence for His rising from the dead after dying on the cross to pay for the sins of the world. Disprove the resurrection, and you destroy Christianity! The central message of the New Testament is belief in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ [I Corinthians 15:3-8; John 3:16-18; 20:24-31; Colossians 1:15-20, etc.]. However, to disprove the resurrection one would have to explain what happened to Jesus’s mutilated body. Why didn’t the enemies of Jesus just produce His corpse? That would have ended the resurrection story. How did the tomb, which was sealed and guarded by Roman soldiers, get empty? Why weren’t some disciples or soldiers killed? Another theory says that Jesus, having been crucified by the Romans, swooned in a state of near death, suddenly revived, rolled away the gigantic stone guarding the entrance to His tomb, scared away the Roman soldiers, and told his disciples, “Hey guys. Look, it’s me. I’ve
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