Where is the Body?
People have been trying to get Christians to shut up for as long as we have been around (Check out the stories in Acts 4, 5, and 6-8, for some of the earliest records of the attempts to shut down this love revolution). The attempts have been unfruitful, yet they keep coming.
One of the “newest” attempts is by James Cameron (directer of “The Titanic”). He has supposedly gathered enough DNA evidence to prove that Jesus is still in his tomb (read about it here and here as well).
Michael Spencer has a quick response, and I’m sure the blogsphere will soon be lit up with discussion over this story. I just want to offer a quick thought.
The one thing that I have to bring up in this kind of conversation (which has been happening long before this “new discovery”, and will continue long after) is the simple fact that no one produced the body of Jesus when they were trying to get the apostles and disciples of this Messiah to shut up.
The Jewish religious leaders knew what tomb his body was in and the Romans would have a record as well, if for no other reason than the guards being posted at the request of the Jewish religious leaders. But all that was said was, “stop talking about this” or (in Roman circles) the followers of the Way were called atheists. Still, all these words against Christians, and no body produced to silence them once for all? That testifies along side the eye witnesses that truly this man is the Son of the Most High, and truly He rose from the grave.
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