The Resurrection: Would it change your belief?

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Here is an interesting hypothetical question: If scientists found the physical body of Christ, would it change you’re belief in Christianity?

Please state why or why not.

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Allen537:
Here is an interesting hypothetical question: If scientists found the physical body of Christ, would it change you’re belief in Christianity?

Please state why or why not.

Thanks!!!
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If scientists found a body and purported that it was the body of Jesus Christ I would know that they were wrong.

How would they prove that they were right?

Let’s have hypothetical questions that at least some possibility of happening!
 
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Allen537:
Here is an interesting hypothetical question: If scientists found the physical body of Christ, would it change you’re belief in Christianity?

Please state why or why not.

Thanks!!!
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Without the resurrection Christianity is false. That is what seperates our Lord from Mohhamed or any other propeht. But the witness of the martyrs is proof that our Lord actually died, rose from the dead and than ascended into glory. But without the resurrection, Christ would have just been another wanna-be Messiah, but we know that that is not true.
 
1st Corinthians Ch15:
12 Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14 if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.
 
Joan M:
… Let’s have hypothetical questions that at least some possibility of happening!
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Bet you didn’t read the DaVindi Code either. 😉
 
“What if there were no such thing as a hypothetical situation…?”
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No resurrection, no Christianity. As Catholic Dude posted above, St. Paul himself makes that clear.
 
Joan M:
If scientists found a body and purported that it was the body of Jesus Christ I would know that they were wrong.

How would they prove that they were right?

Let’s have hypothetical questions that at least some possibility of happening!
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Thats why it is a hypothetical question…because it is an unlikley or impossible situation. Most hypothetical questions are posed for that very reason.
 
And just how would scientists “prove” that this specific body belonged to Jesus Christ? Perhaps it was a genetic match for the Shroud of Turin or the Eucharistic Miracles (e.g. Lanciano)?

Since the resurrection is fact, I don’t know how we’d manage to prove otherwise.

I’d look closely at anything that suggested otherwise, because I think it’s possible that someone was capable of less than thorough science.

CARose
 
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Allen537:
Here is an interesting hypothetical question: If scientists found the physical body of Christ, would it change you’re belief in Christianity?

Please state why or why not.

Thanks!!!
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Your hypothetical still needs a verifying statement…

“If scientists found the physical body of Christ…”
determined to be so, how? There is no DNA evidence to tie any discoveries to, but since we’re dealing in hypotheticals…
what would be the determining factor of such a discovery?
 
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CARose:
And just how would scientists “prove” that this specific body belonged to Jesus Christ? Perhaps it was a genetic match for the Shroud of Turin or the Eucharistic Miracles (e.g. Lanciano)?

Since the resurrection is fact, I don’t know how we’d manage to prove otherwise.

I’d look closely at anything that suggested otherwise, because I think it’s possible that someone was capable of less than thorough science.

CARose
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It would end up just like the Shroud of Turin - where some believe the science supporting the claim it is THE shroud of Christ, and others believe the science refuting the claim it is THE shroud.

All I know is I would not believe the discovery of an ‘allegedly proven’ body of Christ was actually Jesus Christ.
 
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Allen537:
Here is an interesting hypothetical question: If scientists found the physical body of Christ, would it change you’re belief in Christianity?

Please state why or why not.
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Yes; it would modify my belief about that particular event.

Proving the identity of any 2 000-year-old corpse would be … challenging.

Imagining that Jesus’ body was found, however, we would then know that Jesus was either not resurrected or not assumed into heaven after the Resurrection. Demonstrating which of those things had happened would be … very challenging.

Even if we could ascertain that, as the Quran claims, Jesus was never crucified in the first place, it would only modify my faith.

My faith is first of all in Almighty God. Jesus is a manifestation of God. We understand certain things about that manifestation, based upon documents from the time and from the following centuries. Were we to be proven incorrect in our understanding of that manifestation, it would have little relevance towards our belief in God.

It would certainly lend further weight to the position that the Bible is not literally true, but that is sufficiently supported within the text.
 
It wouldn’t alter my faith at all. I don’t believe that Jesus physically rose from the dead to begin with, nor do I think Christians need to believe so.
 
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Allen537:
Thats why it is a hypothetical question…because it is an unlikley or impossible situation. Most hypothetical questions are posed for that very reason.
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A hypothetical question must have some sort of likelyhood for coming true - for it to be answered. This can not be answered, because it cannot happen.

My opinion, others may disagree.
 
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Adonis33:
A hypothetical question must have some sort of likelyhood for coming true - for it to be answered. This can not be answered, because it cannot happen.

My opinion, others may disagree.
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I agree that we cannot find the body of Christ since he ascended into Heaven. But I think you are mising the intention of this question. It is designed to be a test of faith, you can’t just dismiss the question from the start. For the sake of the argument, you have to believe that His body was actually found, then you can make an objective answer.
 
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Allen537:
Thats why it is a hypothetical question…because it is an unlikley or impossible situation. Most hypothetical questions are posed for that very reason.
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I disagree. Most hypothetical questions are “what if” scenarios and are different situations that have not yet, but could happen.

If the situation is impossible, why bother to ask about it?
 
The question is, of course, impossible. Some non-Christians even doubt that Christ existed. So any scientist in this hypothesis would first of all have to prove that Christ existed, that he died, that this was his body.

If such a thing were possible, Christianity could not continue, for it would have been based on a lie.
 
If scientists found a body they claimed to be Jesus, I wouldn’t believe it. I have supernatural faith given by God that he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.

I do not believe there is any way to “prove” a body as Jesus’s. I would reject any such claim.

But hypothetically, if there was some way to prove it 100%, then of course I would lose my faith.

As other posters have quoted 1st Corinthians Ch 15:

The ressurection is not just accidental to our faith. It is not just some symbol. It is absolutely essential. The source and foundation of our faith. If there be no resurrection from the dead, then our faith be in vain.
 
What if they went looking and found a tomb full of apostles and early Christians who bodies were not corrupted over the years, including the gospel writers, Matt, Mark, Luke, John, all holding the original manuscripts?

Do you think the scientists would believe in Jesus then?

(Remeber this is hypothetical.)
 
I am not a scientiest as you may have already guessed BUT trust me I have already found the body of Christ …Body Blood Soul and Divinity! Maybe you should look for his body where it is
 
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