Can the Resurrection be disproved?

[John10]

Sometimes people have suggested His Body was stolen and hidden by the Apostles.

They have gone so far as to say it was an hallucination and that He did not really returned.

Not saying they are good arguments to disprove the Resurrection, but just pointing out some things which I have heard.

 

[Neithan]

I think I need a bit more information before I deconvert. I did see a story several years ago about an ossuary they found with the name of Jesus on it. Is this the tomb story you mean? I think it turned out to be a hoax that didn’t really fool many people.

 

[GiftofMercy]

What are you converting or deconverting from or too?

 

[Neithan]

I’m just kidding.

 

[GiftofMercy]

I just checked to see if you were the OP. We should not go off topic or derail the thread

 

[undead_rat]

Just as the Resurrection cannot be proven today, it cannot be disproven.

What is proven scientifically is that Jesus’ corpse vanished from the inside of His burial linen. The two main evidences of this occurrence are:

1. His body was covered in blood which would have clotted and adhered to the fibers of the linen burial cloth. If this cloth had been removed from the corpse, the clotted blood would have torn many of the linen fibers. We all know this from having removed a bandage from a wound. The fibers of the bandage adhere to the wound making removal difficult. However, Jesus’ burial linen has been examined with microscopes, and its fibers were found not to be torn or disturbed in the least, even where the bloodstains are located.
2. Jesus’ burial linen contains a 16% greater ratio of carbon fourteen than would be expected of linen that is 2000 years old.** Various theories have been postulated and all but one have been eliminated. The remaining possibility is that this linen was, at some point in the last 2000 years, subjected to neutron radiation which would have converted some of the nitrogen in the linen fibers into carbon fourteen. Since we know that the cloth has never been taken to a nuclear reactor, the only possible source for such radiation is that it was a result of Jesus’ corpse vanishing into another dimension.*

Proof that Jesus’ corpse vanished is not the same as proof of His return after death in a living body. However, it strongly implies that such is true. If His corpse could vanish, then it follows that He could return in a living body at any time and place just as the Gospels report.

*TEST THE SHROUD, Antonacci, 2015
**THE SHROUD OF TURIN: FIRST CENTURY AFTER CHRIST, Malfi & Fanti, 2015

 

[SalamKhan]

Which cult is this? And when you witnessed the human sacrifice first hand, did you go to the police, this is murder. Why were you involved?

LOL, it’s not real. It was a hypothetical question.

 

[Neithan]

Since we know that the cloth has never been taken to a nuclear reactor, the only possible source for such radiation is that it was a result of Jesus’ corpse vanishing into another dimension.

That sounds like science fiction. Although I guess “another dimension” would be some way of stating something not in the known universe. Seems weird and even comical to think of Christ as radioactive. Maybe we shouldn’t receive communion so often…

 

[undead_rat]

I cited the reference that was done with the help of a nuclear physicist of 30 years experience. The only way to explain how the image of Jesus’ corpse left its image on the Shroud is by postulating that it produced proton radiation when it vanished.

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[skelly]

In the same way there is not enough evidence to DISPROVE the existence of UFO’s or ghosts. True believers of these things will swear to them no matter what. Likewise, most of the Apostles were true believers even before the Resurrection. They gave up virtually everything to follow Jesus. How could they not believe now after all they had sacrificed. The psychological principle involved is cognitive dissonance, that is, not to believe in the Resurrection would mean all their sacrifice was in vain.

Alternatively, for most of those of the Christian faith, the Resurrection genuinely occurred.

Actually they did believe everything was in vain until … they witnessed the resurrected Jesus.

 

[GEddie]

That’s roughly the argument that S. Paul faced in Corinth.

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