In my last post I answered objections to the resurrection of Jesus Christ because of the belief that his disciples had dreams or hallucinations about him. The idea that the disciples simply lied and made up the resurrection has been brought up many times so I will tackle this theory.


The deception theory is pretty simple. The disciples, the followers of Jesus, all made it up that he rose from the dead. First lets go back to Peter the the day of Jesus' Crucification. He is so terrified of a little Girl that he denies ever knowing Jesus and calls curses on himself if he ever knew Jesus. In the next few days the disciples are cowering when in the room together and one of them says  that they should just make it up that Jesus rose from the dead. So they go out of their room, and start preaching that Jesus rose from the dead. They also have to remove the body from the tomb without the guards realizing what happens.


Whats interesting is that the followers of Jesus faced extreme persecution and yet they don't give up this lie. Then the disciples and other followers begin to die for their beliefs [1] and they still don't give up this lie.  Peter was crucified upside down. Andrew was crucified as well. James was beheaded. Philip was killed in Turkey. Nathanael was skinned alive and beheaded. Thomas was speared to death. Matthew was martyred in Persia or Ethiopia. The James who is not  the brother of Jesus was murdered in Egypt. Jude and Simon were both killed together in Persia. Paul was beheaded
by the Romans.  We have historical writings [2] outside the Bible to confirm Jame's, Peter, and Paul's manner of death.


People who lie don't just die like this just to keep up their lies. All these disciples had careers that they could have gone back to as well. Something changed their lives enough that they spent their entire lives for it. They were willing to give everything to preach the Truth of Jesus Christ.

Parts I [2], II [2], III,  [2]IV [2], V, [2] VI,  [2]VII [2]