The Resurrection Of Jesus 🔴 A Hypothesis

Only Sky ✏ David Austen reflects on the Christian Resurrection myth.

I have long been fascinated by the Resurrection of Jesus, which is really the core tenet of the Christian faith.

The Apostle Paul makes this abundantly clear when he states:

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. (1 Corinthians 17-19).

Obviously, as an atheist, I do not believe that “God raised Jesus from the Dead” supernaturally, but there must be some basis for this belief that the disciples and apostles declared openly, sometimes at the risk of persecution. (I do not subscribe to the apologetic “The disciples would not die for a lie” as there is very little evidence that any disciple had the opportunity to recant their belief to avoid death, but I can accept that some faced persecution for this belief.)

Secular scholars of the New Testament have presented hypotheses to explain why the disciples were convinced that Jesus had risen from the dead . . .

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