Easter - Lies and Realities

 

 ARTICLE BY VICTOR S E MOUBARAK - LINK HERE

As we celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord let us remember that this particular event gave rise to many speculations and rumours all those years ago, and indeed over the years since then.

Let’s consider the facts as we know them.

A man claiming to be the Son of God was crucified and died a most horrible death.

After His death, His followers claimed that He rose from the dead as He had said He would.

Now let’s look at the rumours and the conspiracy theories.

It is possible that Christ’s disciples and followers stole and hid the body of Jesus to perpetuate the story that He is the Son of God and that His Father raised Him from the dead.

But if that were the case; what benefit is there to them to disseminate this story knowing full well that it is a lie? Why suffer persecution, imprisonment, torture and death for something you know to be false? Would you do that?

The other theory is that the Jews, the Sadducees or Pharisees, removed the body in order to stop any beliefs that Christ is the Messiah, the Son of God.

But if that were the case; then why not produce the body once the disciples said that Jesus rose from the dead and invalidate the story of the Resurrection right from the start? Isn't that what one would expect in such circumstances?

Another hypothesis is that Christ never died at all. He just lost consciousness or was in a coma, and He woke up once again and walked out of the tomb.

But the Romans were very thorough people. They made sure that those crucified were indeed dead by breaking their legs whilst hanging there. They did not do so to Jesus because when they checked He was already dead. Even so, they did pierce His side with a spear just to make sure.

And then; there is of course the fact:

Christ died on the Cross and rose from the dead. 

NOTES: At the crucifixion, there was only one person who knew for certain that Jesus is the Son of God. Mary His mother. She knew for sure how He was conceived. If Jesus was not the Son of God, if He was just a fantasist or a fraud, she would have said so in order to save Him; as any good mother would. She kept silent because she knew for certain it was the truth - He IS the Son of God.  

Isaiah 53:9 says "They intended to bury him with criminals, but he ended up in a rich man's tomb, because he had committed no violent deeds, nor had he spoken deceitfully."

Matthew 27:57-60 says "As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 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."

This prophesy by Isaiah written roughly 700 years before Jesus' birth is very significant. In Roman times criminals were buried in mass graves. This was the original intention for Jesus, but they buried Him in a rich man's grave. Had He been buried in a mass grave it would have been very difficult and impossible to prove that He had been raised from the dead, bearing in mind the number of bodies there. Thus, as predicted, He was buried in a private rich man's grave which was sealed and guarded by the Romans. Thus identifying that the body which had been buried there was indeed resurrected from the dead.