Jesus the wizard of odds? -- I'll be back part III -- leaving the ancient terminators baffled

Posted : 3 Apr, 2021 07:56 AM

debunking the stolen body theory



Some people think that Jesus’ body was stolen from the tomb, either by his disciples or by the authorities. Both suggestions have problems that make them hard to believe.



If the disciples stole the body, an accusation the Gospel of Matthew says was going round (Matthew 28:11–15), we need to explain another fact. We know from later accounts that many of the first disciples were executed or exiled for preaching about Jesus. If they stole the body, we need to explain why they would be willing to die to protect something they had made up. Obviously, someone might die for a belief they hold sincerely. But surely no one willingly faces execution for something they know to be an outright lie? The first disciples had everything to lose and nothing to gain from maintaining a lie.



If the authorities stole the body (perhaps to keep the tomb from becoming a shrine), why did they not reveal the body when people started to proclaim that Jesus had risen from the dead? That would be a sure-fire way to stop this new religion getting off the ground. But this never happened





What chance would he have of getting one prophecy right ? Just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man.” “we find the chance that any one man fulfilling 48 prophecies to be 1 in 10157, or

1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000.



The estimated number of electrons in the universe is around 1079. It should be quite evident that Jesus did not fulfill the prophecies by accident.”

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