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People dispute everything. Note that faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit; God always makes the first move towards us.
The fact of Christ’s Resurrection is attested by more than 500 eyewitnesses. (1 Cor. 15:6)
The fact of Christ’s Resurrection is attested by the eloquent silence of the Synagogue which had done everything to prevent any deception and not punish the alleged carelessness of the official guard which said to the Apostles with “that they speak no more in this name to any man” (Acts 4:17).
The Catechism on the Resurrection:
The empty tomb
640 "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen."493 The first element we encounter in the framework of the Easter events is the empty tomb. In itself it is not a direct proof of Resurrection; the absence of Christ’s body from the tomb could be explained otherwise.494 Nonetheless the empty tomb was still an essential sign for all. Its discovery by the disciples was the first step toward recognizing the very fact of the Resurrection. This was the case, first with the holy women, and then with Peter.495 The disciple “whom Jesus loved” affirmed that when he entered the empty tomb and discovered “the linen cloths lying there”, “he saw and believed”.496 This suggests that he realized from the empty tomb’s condition that the absence of Jesus’ body could not have been of human doing and that Jesus had not simply returned to earthly life as had been the case with Lazarus.497
493 Lk 24:5-6.
494 Cf. Jn 20:13; Mt 28:11-15.
495 Cf. Lk 24:3,12,22-23.
496 Jn 20:2, 6, 8.
497 Cf. Jn 11:44; 20:5-7.
