Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: krueger@writeon.physics.arizona.edu (Theodore Krueger) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The missing body/Empty tomb Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 03:28:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Arizona, Telecommunications, Tucson AZ Lines: 35 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu This is a very complicated question. The best IMHO discussion of this is given by a one-time college student who decided to write a paper for a composition class which would disprove the bible. After gathering evidence, he became convinced and became born again. His name is Josh McDowell and the book is _Evidence Which Demands A Verdict_. Your question actually implies several other smaller questions and several evidencial directions. Some of those are: 1) Jesus himself claimed that he would rise from the dead 2) Ignatious, who later became Bishop of Antioch, lived from about 50AD to 115AD, wrote of Jesus factual resurection 3) As did Justin Martyr (AD 100-165) 4) Perhaps the best (agreed upon as not pro-christian) was Josephus a Jewish (not christian) historian in the employ of Rome (end of 1st century AD) 5) Many other christian and non-christian historians Please, if you have questions about this subject, read _Evidence_, or works by Gleason Archer (not a christian apologist). The first question IMHO is, "Is there a God?" and the second is "If there is, what is our responsibility to Him?" -- Be Excellent To Each Other [I'm not sure what the reference to Josephus is about. The only comment he made that might be taken to support Christianity is generally considered to be a later modification of his text. Nor do I know of any other non-Christian writer that directly confirms the resurrection, except in the sense of saying that Christians believed in it. --clh]