Originally Posted by
Gofer Blue
I think you have misread what I wrote. I did not say that the resurrection was recorded instantly. What I am saying is, if the authorities at the time (the Romans and the Pharisees) could have produced the dead body of Jesus shortly after his death, then the resurrection would have been instantly disproved and that would have been the end of Christianity before it ever really got going.
The idea that somehow such a significant event would be “reimagined” 35 years or so later is laughable. If you asked me if anything of significance happened in January 1990 (35 years ago) I would not be able to recall a single thing. Yet if you asked me if anything significant happened in January 1982 (43 years ago) I would immediately be able to tell you exactly what happened and in great detail. It snowed for two days non-stop and we were stranded in our bungalow with drifts approximately 8 feet deep right up to the gutters. The car was completely buried on the drive. The snow lingered on the ground for at least a month. I could go on.
As further examples I can vividly remember the exact day my grandfather died (26 September 1965), the week in which both my in-laws died (last week of June 1981), the day my father died (27 December 1997), and the day my mother died (7 March 2002), each in great detail.
If anyone of these came back to life after 3 days, can anyone seriously suggest that I would not remember that or invent it? 1st century people were well acquainted with death, they knew very well when someone was dead and they did not expect dead people to come alive after 3 days. So to make such a claim would indeed be foolish to say the least.
There is no way that any one of those early disciples would have forgotten the events of that first Easter and then somehow “re-imagined” or invented them 35 years later, or someone might have somehow “mistranslated” such basic information!
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