Was Jesus reserected on Easter

Answer 1

With God, all things are possible. There is probably a scientific explaination as to how God brought Jesus back from the dead. We are just not advanced enough yet. But Jesus was able to raise the dead also. Lazerus had been dead for about 2 or 3 days when he was brought back to life. The amazing thing about Jesus, He never took credit for his miracles but gave all credit to the Heavenly Father.

Answer 2

The weight of evidence is that the resurrection, if Jesus was resurrected at all, was not a physical resurrection but was at first believed to have been a spiritual resurrection. Later, the gospel authors created elaborate stories to 'prove' that Jesus had been resurrected physically. This contention is supported by some important theologians.

Paul wrote his epistles before any of the gospels was written. 1 Corinthians 15:15-44 show that Paul believed the resurrection was of his spiritual body, which is not the physical body, and that all people are raised from the dead in the same meaning. At 1Corinthians 15:3-8, Paul also seems to have believed that when the risen Jesus appeared to Cephas, then the twelve, then to more than 500 (most of whom were still alive) then to James and all the apostles, that the appearances were all of the same nature as the appearance to himself, with no suggestion that any of those appearances somehow more real than the spiritual appearance he experienced. Paul seems to say that the risen Jesus did not show himself physically, but only through visions or dreams.

John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) rejects the physical resurrection. In his view, Jesus was not physically resurrected, but rather "exalted" by God.

Mark's story of the crucifixion is so carefully staged and artificial that it is most unlikely to have been a true history of events that really happened. Mark's Gospel breaks the last twenty four hours in the life of Jesus into eight segments each of exactly three hours, beginning with the Last Supper "when it was evening" (Mark 14:17) and ending with his burial before the start of the Sabbath. Without a crucifixion as described in The Bible, there could not have been a resurrection.

Mark's Gospel originally ended at verse 16:8, with the young man telling the women that Jesus was risen and they told no one. The "Long Ending" (verses 16:9-20) was added to Mark's Gospel long afterwards to provide the necessary resurrection appearances. The authors of the other gospels relied on Mark's Gospel for everything they knew about the life and mission of Jesus, but since Mark as yet had no resurrection details, each author had to create his own ending, and each ending is entirely different to the other. Since all accounts of the empty tomb are dependent on Mark, the story hangs by a slender thread indeed.

Archbishop Peter Carnley (The Structure of Resurrection Belief ) writes:

The presence of discrepancies might be a sign of historicity if we had four clearly independent but slightly different versions of the story, if only for the reason that four witnesses are better than one. But, of course, it is now impossible to argue that what we have in the four gospel accounts of the empty tomb are four contemporaneous but independent accounts of the one event. Modern redactional studies of the traditions account for the discrepancies as literary developments at the hand of later redactors of what was originally one report of the empty tomb...

There is no suggestion that the tomb was discovered by different witnesses on four different occasions, so it is in fact impossible to argue that the discrepancies were introduced by different witnesses of the one event; rather, they can be explained as four different redactions for apologetic and kerygmatic reasons of a single story originating from one source.

Having established that there is no good reason to believe that Jesus was resurrected in his physical body, it then depends on faith, and faith alone, whether you believe that he was resurrected spiritually. More probably, Jesus simply died and was buried, if indeed he was even crucified.

Answer 3

yes, Christians believe that Jesus was physically resurrected and the New Testament gospels made a point of this several times.

In John 20:27 it was written "Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe'". The disciples saw and touched his solid body.

In Luke 24:39 Jesus said, "Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."

In John 21:15 Jesus ate with his disciples after the resurrection. Spirits don't eat food.

Answer 4

The weight of evidence is that the resurrection, if Jesus was resurrected at all, was not a physical resurrection but was at first believed to have been a spiritual resurrection. Later, the gospel authors created elaborate stories to 'prove' that Jesus had been resurrected physically. This contention is supported by some important theologians.

Paul wrote his epistles before any of the gospels was written. 1 Corinthians 15:15-44 show that Paul believed the resurrection was of his spiritual body, which is not the physical body, and that all people are raised from the dead in the same meaning. At 1Corinthians 15:3-8, Paul also seems to have believed that when the risen Jesus appeared to Cephas, then the twelve, then to more than 500 (most of whom were still alive) then to James and all the apostles, that the appearances were all of the same nature as the appearance to himself, with no suggestion that any of those appearances somehow more real than the spiritual appearance he experienced. Paul seems to say that the risen Jesus did not show himself physically, but only through visions or dreams.

John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) rejects the physical resurrection. In his view, Jesus was not physically resurrected, but rather "exalted" by God.

Mark's story of the crucifixion is so carefully staged and artificial that it is most unlikely to have been a true history of events that really happened. Mark's Gospel breaks the last twenty four hours in the life of Jesus into eight segments each of exactly three hours, beginning with the Last Supper "when it was evening" (Mark 14:17) and ending with his burial before the start of the Sabbath. Without a crucifixion as described in the Bible, there could not have been a resurrection.

Mark's Gospel originally ended at verse 16:8, with the young man telling the women that Jesus was risen and they told no one. The "Long Ending" (verses 16:9-20) was added to Mark's Gospel long afterwards to provide the necessary resurrection appearances. The authors of the other gospels relied on Mark's Gospel for everything they knew about the life and mission of Jesus, but since Mark as yet had no resurrection details, each author had to create his own ending, and each ending is entirely different to the other. Since all accounts of the empty tomb are dependent on Mark, the story hangs by a slender thread indeed.

Archbishop Peter Carnley (The Structure of Resurrection Belief ) writes:
The presence of discrepancies might be a sign of historicity if we had four clearly independent but slightly different versions of the story, if only for the reason that four witnesses are better than one. But, of course, it is now impossible to argue that what we have in the four gospel accounts of the empty tomb are four contemporaneous but independent accounts of the one event. Modern redactional studies of the traditions account for the discrepancies as literary developments at the hand of later redactors of what was originally one report of the empty tomb...
There is no suggestion that the tomb was discovered by different witnesses on four different occasions, so it is in fact impossible to argue that the discrepancies were introduced by different witnesses of the one event; rather, they can be explained as four different redactions for apologetic and kerygmatic reasons of a single story originating from one source.

Having established that there is no good reason to believe that Jesus was resurrected in his physical body, it then depends on faith, and faith alone, whether you believe that he was resurrected spiritually. More probably, Jesus simply died and was buried, if indeed he was even crucified.

Answer 5

If you mean did He get resurrected? then, yes, He did. It's the cornerstone tenet of Christianity.

Answer 6

Jesus rose from the dead on easter.