The fact that Jesus’ tomb was found empty prompted some perplexity in sceptics, forcing them to address the claims of eyewitnesses with alternative theories as to what happened to Jesus’ body. If one denies that Jesus rose from the dead and left His tomb, how can they explain the fact that His body was missing?
Sceptics are constantly attempting to explain away the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as not being a supernatural miracle. The articles in this category address their scepticism.
Christians rely on the claim that Jesus was resurrected from death as convincing evidence for the truthfulness of Christianity. Skeptics however have tried to find alternative explanations to the resurrection in ways that rely on naturalistic factors to avoid any miraculous explanations and discredit the Christian claims. One of those alternative explanations is called the relocated body theory. What do they mean when they…
Kirsopp Lake, a 20th-century British New Testament scholar, proposed an alternative explanation to the resurrection of Jesus, commonly known as “The Wrong Tomb Theory”. He proposed that the women who had informed the disciples about the missing body of Jesus visited the wrong tomb that morning. If this is true, then the disciples who went after to check for the body of Jesus must…
