However others may have different points of view. Christians would say that Jesus was the physical God so therefore he would have the power to do the impossible, bring a dead man back to life. As Norman Geisler says in his book ‘The counterfeit gospel of Mormonism’, ‘While Christ’s resurrection body is more than mortal; it is not less than physical’. Meaning that even though Christ wasn’t mortal on earth he still was physical, he still was a man and had the ability to die. Christians believe that Christ conquered one of mans greatest fears in defeating death and they would argue that the fact Jesus did rise from the dead proves he was the messiah.
Some extreme Christians would believe that the bible was the most historical fact they needed, and that every word in the bible is true.
People saw Jesus on the cross and his disciples risked their lives for Jesus, if someone is willing to die for Jesus then it is very unlikely that the resurrection was untrue. The disciples act as if they believe in the resurrection by risking their lives. If you believe in a higher being and that there is a God then the resurrection doesn’t seem too hard to make come true by someone with God’s immense power.
Christians would argue that Easter is the core fact to the belief in the resurrection. They would say that Jesus died for our sins and that he was buried and raised on the third day. In argument to the scientific beliefs Christians would believe that Christ wasn’t merely ‘clinically dead’ and then resuscitated, brought back to life to return to his original body, but that Jesus went through death to a transformed life. This is the reason those closest to him could not recognise him, like Mary Magdalene or the disciples. Jesus went through so much pain being nailed to the cross that there seems little doubt that he died.
However I still believe that my point of view is personally the best because there is so much doubt today in whether Jesus was truly resurrected. I feel that my opinions lie more in with philosophers such as Karl Marx who believed that religion was something made up by the bourgeoisie in order to keep the proletariat happy. ‘Religion is the opium of the masses’ Marx famously said in his book ‘Capital’. I believe that it was easy for the middle and higher classes to twist the minds of the working class and use it to their advantage in order to gain more out of them.
In my opinion the resurrection of Jesus is a made up story enabling people to believe that there is something worth living for after death. I believe that something did create this universe but that over time people have exploited what man considers being the ‘unknown’. People can so easily twist others minds and even though religion has provided many things that we have gained in our cultures there is so much evil around today that if there was a God then he probably would be ashamed of what he created. Perhaps Jesus was a great person and perhaps he was sent by God, but I find it truly hard to believe today that this is the case.
