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John Stein's Account Of Jesus Resurrection From The Dead

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The final chapter of Stein's book talks about Jesus' resurrection from the dead, his ascension into Heaven and Christians waiting for his eventual return. This chapter describes the most important aspect of the life of Jesus. It also tells various beliefs on why the accounts of Jesus' resurrection are true and negates the claims on why he didn't rise from the dead.
The facts as are stated are that Joseph put Jesus in a tomb. The tomb was then sealed so that no one could get into the tomb to steal the body. The last fact of the matter is that there were guards guarding the tomb to make sure no one came to remove the body. There was an earthquake scaring the guards of the tomb and they left to report it. Once the guards came back they realized …show more content…

Stein refutes these claims one by one. The first claim as to why he didn't come back to life is because simply the women who witnessed that there was nobody in the tomb went to the wrong tomb and just saw an empty tomb. Stein denies this by saying that this it had already been stated that the tomb Jesus had been buried in was a well-known tomb and the women couldn't mistake it for another. The nonbelievers claim that Joseph took the body, this could not be the case for two reasons, one is that moving Jesus' body would be dishonor Jesus and the second is that the tomb was sealed and under watch by guards. This is also the explanation Stein gives to the claim that the disciples stole the body to fulfill the prophecy that Jesus had laid out when he said he would rise from the dead. The last piece of evidence given by the non-believers says that Jesus actually didn't die on the cross; he was only severely injured and had woken up after his burial in the tomb. Stein negates this by saying that the Jews had used crucifixion before and were fairly good at doing so, also they would have known a dead body if they saw

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