Six arguments against the Resurrection refuted.

ARGUMENT 1

“Jesus' enemies would have taken His body.”

This scenario would be highly improbable because Jesus’ enemies would have certainly displayed His body if they could have, to humiliate His disciples, to control any rumors of His resurrection, as well as cut short any new religious movement that would threaten their Mosaic traditions.

ARGUMENT 2

“Jesus' followers might have taken His body.”

It is unlikely that Jesus’ followers would have taken His body because, following His crucifixion, they were profoundly disappointed and discouraged, hiding away and did not believe that He would be resurrected.

It is absurd to think that they would have invented a scheme under these conditions wherein they would steal the body to fabricate a story that they did not believe in and would later be killed for.

ARGUMENT 3

“No one had actually seen Jesus risen and people who claimed to were just hallucinating with grief.”

Hallucinations are an individual phenomena, not a group event. An individual can hallucinate; however, Jesus had appeared to more than 500 people after His resurrection as recorded in the new testament scriptures.

Furthermore, the Bible accounts for Paul’s conversion after he witnessed the resurrected Christ, and he was not even in the state of grief (but instead was on route persecuting Christians).

ARGUMENT 4

“The Conversion of Paul could have happened by him just exploring other faiths as it occurs in today’s world.”

The problem with this claim is that Paul did not convert based on any secondary facts (by reading sources or by someone ministering to him). But instead, he converted based on a firsthand experience when he met the risen Lord Jesus.

ARGUMENT 5

“Jesus had a twin brother who looked like him and pretended to be the Messiah after the resurrection.”

Although this is possible, the odds of this is improbable that someone would attempt such a stunt and subject himself to the torture and flogging associated with the name Jesus during that period.

ARGUMENT 6

“Jesus did not die on the cross but had merely passed out and later woke up in the tomb and escaped.”

Jesus was severely beaten, exhausted, carried a wooden cross with splinters / was exhausted / a crown of thorns was put upon His head / was nailed to the cross and then had a spear stuck in His side.

After this, He was taken down from the cross and wrapped in 100 pounds of burial clothing and was put inside a tomb with a stone that weighed between two to three tons rolled in front of it.

How would Jesus all of a sudden revive and un-wrap Himself and still have the strength to push the stone and escape?

This theory is just not realistic.

Furthermore, the guards who crucified Jesus were professional executioners, and some say that if an executioner took a man off before he was dead would face the same death.