I've just written a page report on mystery of the resurrection of Jesus for my Religious Education class, what do you think of it?
In this report, I am to prove if Jesus really died on the cross and came back to life or he was simply replaced with a look-alike when he died.
Bible sources show that just before Jesus’ arrest, he was praying in a place called
Some could argue that Jesus ran away and was replaced by someone who looked like him while the Disciples were sleeping. However, if Jesus really was replaced, somebody would notice. Even twins have different voices and builds. It wouldn’t be too hard for one of the high priests to notice it wasn’t Jesus because he was taken straight to them promptly after he was arrested. Even if they didn’t notice, surely one of the hundreds of people who said to pilot that he should be killed would have.
On the other hand, it also could be said that Jesus was replaced only after he died. After all, it was s disciple of Jesus who took his body. Again, people could say that Jesus was only in a coma and didn’t really die.
But that doesn’t really make sense. Even if Jesus was in a coma, wouldn’t the 3 days he was left in the tomb have finished him off? Also, Jesus couldn’t have been replaced after he was put in the tomb; it was under constant guard by Roman Soldiers who had no reason whatsoever to want to help Jesus.
After Jesus had been pronounced missing and appeared to Mary, many people would agree that she was just delusional and saw someone who may have looked like Jesus. If that was so, why would the person say to tell the disciples that he had risen? People might say that he was just mocking her but why would he be, saying what he did would start rumours about Jesus and make people believe in him again.
According to Bible sources, Thomas (called Didymus) didn’t believe that Jesus had really risen and he was one of the disciples himself. He said that he wouldn’t believe unless he actually saw the holes in Jesus’ hands, feet and side.
A little later, Jesus appeared to Thomas and showed him his wounds and he believed. If Thomas hadn’t believed the stories of Jesus’ resurrection at all, not even close to believing, why would he suddenly say that he saw the real Jesus if he didn’t really?
In conclusion, I cannot find any possible explanation for Jesus’ disappearance apart from him actually being the Son of God, I think that Jesus really did rise and was taken into heaven.
Recently, I've been up to loads of stuff, I should have posted it when it happened because I don't really have the time anymore. I'm back in school off my holiday so I'll probably be making most of my posts on the weekends now, cya!
