In my last post I talked about the people who witnessed the resurrection of Jesus, as documented in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8.
3For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
5and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
6After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;
7then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles;
8and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.
In my next posts I will explore some of the conspiracy theories that have been invented to discredit and explain how Jesus was seen alive after he was dead.
The first theory I will take a look at is the Hallucination Theory. This theory claims that all those people who saw Jesus after he was dead actually had hallucinations, or visions or dreams, as some people who have responded to my previous articles have called it.
First let's see what all had to happen for the hallucination theory. First on Easter Sunday the woman go to the tomb and the two of the Marys and the rest who were with them see Jesus alive. They have the exact same hallucination at the exact same time. They hallucinate about something that unbelievers would say has never happened before, and has no precedence. Next these woman go tell Simon Peter and John and the two disciples join in on the hallucination. While this is happening Cephas and a traveling companion are traveling away from Jerusalem. They all have the same hallucination, that Jesus has risen from the dead and run back to Jerusalem to tell everyone.
Then the twelve disciples, except Judas who has killed himself, and Thomas who is gone, all have the same hallucination of what is unprecedented. Then Thomas comes back and when the disciples tell him what they saw, he does not believe them. Then however they all have the same hallucination at the exact same time including Thomas who does not believe. Then all the 500 people have a hallucination at the same time, and never in history has a mass hallucination like this happened nor has it happened since then. Now, the Supernatural is far more reasonable to believe that time after time all the nearly impossible hallucinations happen at the same time.
Oh and the kicker is I left out the best part. While the disciples and the Women are at the Tomb there is no conversation with the guards where the guards let them know that the body is still there. Also the Jews and Romans that opposed Jesus never come to all these people who are having mass hallucinations and say, "Excuse but the body is still in the tomb." They could easily get rid of Christianity, which they are trying to accomplish, but instead they just bribe people and go to all the work of persecuting the Christians instead.
In my next few posts I will explore the other theories regarding the resurrection.
Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
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