Matt 28: Q2

[Pastor Michelle]

How do Jesus’ enemies fabricate an explanation for the resurrection? What alternative explanations have you heard for Jesus’ resurrection?

[kingdomseeker]

1.) Just a legend. The resurrection is just a story concocted many years later due to the fact that it was written in a non-historic Genre.

2.) The resurrection is just a variation of myths in other religions.

3.) The disciples stole the body just as the authorities claimed.

4.) Somebody else stole the body

5.) The witness went to the wrong tomb.

6.) Jesus was buried in a shallow grave and wild dogs ate the body.

7.) Jesus never really died he just swooned on the cross and came to in the tomb.

8.) Jesus was substituted for and thus really did not die on the cross. ( Quran Sura 4:157-158)

9.) The disciples were merely hallucinating when the thought they saw the resurrected Lord.

10.) The resurrection accounts were biased.

And the last but not least catch all:

11.) We just cannot really know for sure what happened in the past.

These are a few of the arguments against the resurrection that I am aware of. If we are careful we will notice a striking similarity between them all. They all come from a naturalistic viewpoint with the one possible exception (8). The rest have been introduced by not only skeptics but liberal theologians of the past especially those of the higher criticism.

[Pastor Michelle]

I think you must have covered every excuse in the book!! I knew this series of questions would be in your area of expertise!! thanks for sharing!