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@Stephen
An empty tomb is only evidence that a tomb was found to be empty. Nothing you have produced proves anything at all.Sorry to burst your bubble but resurrection is nothing more than an initiation ritual into one sect or another.
Again read what is being posted. There were eyewitness accounts testifying to the appearances of the risen Jesus to those who knew him.
Yep. I read that. It states nothing about a single one of them witnessing stinking and rotting a three-day old corpse rising from a cold stone slab.And it is debateable whether Jesus was even dead when they took him down from the cross. He could have been unconscious or in a coma. You need to look at what was given to him while he was hanging there losing his faith in his "father".
Jesus did indeed die. Jesus was crucified and the Gospels record his last breath.
Luke 23:46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
Mark 15:37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
Matthew 27:50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
The Burial of Jesus
Matthew 27:57 As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
The Guard at the Tomb
62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”
65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.