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Is the resurrection real?
One can say that the resurrection is real, while you can also say that the resurrection is fake. As nobody can prove it, go with what you believe. Yes, the resurrection happ…ened, period. As a young person searching out Christianity many years ago, and as an arrogant science student bent on proving the resurrection wrong, I looked at it from every angle. And came to a (reluctant!) conclusion that it happened. Since then, over 30 years later, I have yet to meet anyone who can give me any convincing evidence that it was 'faked'. All evidence, including the effect that this lowly carpenter from a backwater of the Roman Empire has on people, including the effect he had on me when I became a Chrstian, points to the resurrection being a unique and most wonderful event in human history. In my experience, all those who insist on its being a fake have either not looked at the evidence themselves, and have made their mind up before even considering the possibility of its being genuine, or dismiss it out of hand because of blind bigotry. If you would like to read more, then a book called 'Who moved the Stone' by Frank Morrison, himself originally an arrogant atheist, who originally set out to prove that the resurrection was fake. However, during the writing of the book, Morrison realised that all evidence pointed to the genuine historic true event of the resurrection rather than it being faked, and he became a Christian as a result. It's well worth a read. A present-day court of law would consider the overwhelming amount of evidence in favor of the resurrection being "real" as "proof." Over 500 people saw Christ after His crucifixion. Jesus was seen doing all the things any other human would do, such as eating, talking, walking, you name it. Even if some of the witnesses had reason to lie, it would have been a small minority. The Jewish rulers were seen as very intimidating and most folks would not have wanted to be viewed as eyewitnesses. Some folks argued that eyewitnesses were hallucinating, but there's no historical examples of 500 plus people experiencing a mass hallucination. Many of the witnesses lost their lives because of their faith in Christ. The preponderance of evidence speaks for itself, as the previous er and millions of others have found over the years since Christ's death and resurrection. And Jesus was just the first. Everyone will be resurrected someday, either as part of the "first" resurrection or the "second." Let the evidence be enough to persuade everyone to be part of that first resurrection. (MORE)
