conquered death!” That has no credibility. As a hospice chaplain I’ve seen a lot of dead people. I’ve performed over 500 funerals. It’s not hard to tell whether someone is dead or alive. A dead pe rson’s body becomes cold, stiff and colorless. T here’s no sign of breathing, their heart quits beating, etc. It takes more faith to believe some of those theories which try to explain away the resurrection than to believe that Jesus did arise from the dead as He foretold [Luke 24:6,7; 25-27], and as was prophesied in Psalm 16:10. And what about the disciples and the more than 500 other people who claimed to have seen Jesus physically alive following His crucifixion? [See: I Corinthians, chapter 15.] And, what about Thomas who was told to put his finger into the nail prints in Jesus' hands [John 20:27-29]? What made His disciples, who were cowards before His death, suddenly change and begin preaching a message, under the threat of death, which eventually turned
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