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To: PROLIFE who wrote (325850)	12/4/2002 10:21:09 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

" Not hardly...remember, BECAUSE of the resurrection, and the empty tomb, and because of the commission of Jesus to the Apostles, they returned to Jerusalem and were preaching the resurrection and salvation of Jesus" And what, pray tell(forgive me), does this have to do with the scenario I presented as a possibility???? " If they hid the body, why didn't the Romans simply point to the body of Jesus and say "Here it is" or parade the body through town propped up in a cart.." Didn't they effectively do that by parading him on a death march and hanging him on a cross for all to see....didn't they wait for him to die? Who entombed the body? (I don't know, help me out here). It could also be that his followers removed his body and hid it to perpetuate the myth or to take it some place where they built a secret shrine (long disappeared). I don't know, I haven't thought much about this and have no strong opinion. But several scenarios are possible. The scenario that seems impossible is rising from the dead. ""It passes the bounds of credibility that the early Christians could have manufactured such a tale and then preached it among those who might easily have refuted it simply by producing the body of Jesus. " Certainly doesn't....such a simple tale is easily manufactured and would be readily accepted by uneducated masses..... I doubt that Christianity was an overnight hit. It probably took decades to take root among significant numbers of people....try walking up to someone and tell them you know someone who rose from the dead.... At that point, the absence of a body only added to the legend and the mystic and perhaps Christianity blossomed. I have no convictions on these scenarios, I've only offered them as possibilities since you posted your questions. Thanks for being rational and not shrill....