For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas[1], and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born. (I Corinthians 15:3-8)
Hallelujah, He is risen! And
Paul, who once hated Christians enough to seek their arrest, trial, and death, writes
of the event. Some people claim that what was experienced was mass
hallucinations. There are problems with this theory. The only evidence for it
is based on the fact that a whole bunch of people are said to have seen something
that someone two thousand years later says was a hallucination. There is no
actual evidence of insanity or drug use involved. Supposedly, these “primitive”
people who wanted to believe convinced themselves. Except we have no records
that any of the more than 500 people ever stepped back from their claim. And
Paul wasn’t among the disciples after
the resurrection, but he claims to have met the risen Christ on the road to
Damascus. He was on that road to persecute Christians. How likely is someone to
have a hallucination of that specificity years after the supposed first round?
And, again, to never recant?
And because that doesn’t
really make sense, they claim that someone later made it all up, and somehow,
no one involved let it slip that it was a conspiracy. There’s no actual evidence.
Just the belief that is must be a lie because miracles don’t happen. And
they’re right. Miracles don’t happen nearly as often as some people claim. But
to claim that they can’t happen requires a level of knowledge they don’t have. Those
who claim evolution is true insist that if one has
enough time, the things that are considered impossible can and do happen. God
had all of eternity past to arrange for the miracles
The best information we actually have says that Jesus died and rose from the grave. We have at least six accounts from witnesses: Matthew, Peter, John, James, Jude, and Paul. And Luke interviewed multiple witnesses to write his biography of Jesus. We might not be able to explain it any better than evolutionists can explain evolution (they claim, “It happened” and that’s supposed to be enough,) but to claim that one set of impossible claims (evolution) can take place just because there’s a lot of time and another set of impossible claims (the resurrection) can’t take place is bad logic. There are witnesses to the latter, but not the former.
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