The New Testament nowhere describes how Jesus was raised to life from the grave. The risen Jesus appeared to a number of people at different times — on one occasion to 500 people at once — but not to everybody. Not even the guards at the tomb saw him risen. What terrified them was seeing angels at the empty tomb. Read more
The claim that God raised Jesus from the grave is so stupendous that no one could be expected to believe it without very strong evidence. Yet without the resurrection there would have been no gospel, no Christian faith, no church and no New Testament. There might, of course, have been a community of people who honored Jesus of Nazareth and tried to follow his teaching, but that would have been an entirely different thing. So the question is: does such evidence exist? Read more
