The most important question !

"If you could meet any person of the past, and ask just one question, whom would like to meet, and what would you ask?" When asked this question, a professor of philosophy at London University, and not a Christian at that time, answered: "I would like to meet Jesus Christ, and ask him, Did you or did you not rise bodily from the dead?" Did Easter really happen? Here are the "theories" that say NO, and the reasons that say YES. freud

FRAUD THEORY: The writers of the New Testament basically lied in order to create a new religion. They stole his body and hid it. RESPONSE: This theory ignores the security precautions taken by the Roman authorities to make sure that the body of Jesus was not stolen. In fact, his disciples were never charged with stealing. This theory fails to answer why, if they had taken his body, the grave clothes were still left in the tomb. It omits the fact that Jesus’ body was never found. But what amazed the Romans and the Jewish authorities was that the men disciples, who were supposedly lying, happily admitted that women - who were in those times disdained as uneducated and inferior to men - were the first to discover the empty tomb. If these men had lied, they would surely have claimed that privilege for themselves. SWOON THEORY: Jesus fainted on the cross, and was mistakenly thought to have died. RESPONSE: This theory forgets that Roman soldiers were experts in crucifixion. They knew when someone was dead. It ignores how effective crucifixion was. No one survived. It fails to take into account that one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear - a fatal wound to the heart. It ignores how utterly weak Jesus must have been after the Roman flogging, then after an entire day struggling to breathe on the cross, and after three days in a cold tomb without water or food, supposedly still alive,. How could such a broken man escape from the binding of his grave clothes, and from the solidly sealed tomb, moving the heavy stone at the entrance? This theory claims that Jesus, who lived a morally pure and truthful life, lied that he had been dead. HALLUCINATION THEORY: The disciples only thought they saw Jesus alive after he died on the cross. Perhaps, an emotional response under great stress. RESPONSE: This theory assumes that the disciples expected Jesus to rise from the dead. But they were shocked and utterly surprised to see him alive again. Jesus had to repeatedly convince them and prove to them that he was physically alive. It ignores that many people, women first, - some of them hard doubters - saw Jesus alive. If their seeing and touching Jesus’ resurrected body was a "hallucination", all the Romans or the Jewish leaders had to do was to produce his body. They never did. They tried. They could not do so. What they saw was the amazingly transformed lives of the disciples.