The next two possible explanations for the events of Easter, aside from them actually happening as they are told in the gospels are...
ALL THE WITNESSES HALLUCINATED THE SIGHTINGS OF JESUS
We are told at the end of the gospels and in Paul's epistles (letters to the early churches) that the risen Jesus appeared to a bunch of people, up to 500 at one time (1 Corinthians 15).
The theory that all these people just had a vision of Jesus doesn't fit is that the explanation doesn't match the nature of how hallucinations work.
You don't get collective visions. They are individualistic.
Whenever i try to show this to a scripture class i ask them to have a vision of an animal entering the classroom. When quizzed, their animals don't match. Then i instruct them to see a unicorn gallop into the class and write the colour of the unicorn. Again, their answers don't match.
THE CORPSE ON THE CROSS WASN'T JESUS
Another possibility that explains Easter is that Jesus was never crucified. but another was substituted in his place.
Please...
Those who arrested Jesus knew what he looked like.
Those who were at the crucifixion knew what Jesus looked like (His mother was there!).
Those who prepared the body for burial knew and followed Jesus (Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus).
If someone killed a bloke you personally knew for a few years, or your own child, wouldn't you catch on if it was actually an impostor?
Sometimes we need to remember that those in the first century weren't stupid. Tomorrow that will be useful to keep in mind...
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