How can modern educated individuals believe Jesus rose from the dead?
Books and books have been written about the Resurrection, from all points of view. People have “proved” it, “disproved” it, made comments about how such a myth might have been made up in the social context of the day, etc. I will present to you some simple “common-sense” style arguments that show the Resurrection to be very possible and not at all in the realm of unbelievable mythology. “Proof” of anything non-mathematical is not really a possibility. For more detailed and scholarly analyses, check out the reference page. Most historians agree there was a man named Jesus who lived around 2000 years ago. Most historians also agreed that he died (or fainted) on a cross at approximately 33 years of age. What happened 3 days after that has been a lively and contentious source of debate for two millenia. I think it can be agreed however, that a religious movement came out of the belief that the man in fact rose from his tomb at that time, and this religious movement spread rapidly throughou
