Who Moved the Stone? - Examines the Evidence of the Resurrection

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Issues mark as the basis for his historical investigation as it is the most primitive and according to him the one without embellishments Was it the Roman soldiers who moved the stone. No, because the soldiers were held responsible for their charge. They were assigned the job of making sure no one opened the tomb. Maybe the soldiers fell asleep? During Viet Nam, part of the training for the Green Berets was taken directly from the training manual for the Roman soldiers of this time. These were extremely capable men. Besides, the penalty for a Roman soldier falling asleep was to be burned alive in a fire started by his own clothes. Frank Morison, A Method of Study for Preachers (London: Study Bureau, 1919), and The Psychology of Public Speaking: introductory manual to the Study Bureau course in public speaking (West Croydon: The Study Bureau, 1927). Maybe Jesus moved the stone? Well, Jesus had been flogged within an inch of His life. Many victims of a Roman flogging never made it to the cross but died first. Jesus was pronounced dead at the cross by a Roman executioner, someone very familiar with death. Even after that pronouncement, a spear was thrust into His side and water and blood issued forth, a sign of death. Then His body was wrapped in linen and left in a damp tomb for three days. Can we really believer that after three days He revived, broke free from his wrappings, leaned against the stone which sealed the tomb and gave the 1.5 to 2 ton stone a shove and broke free? That would be a greater miracle than God raising Jesus.

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Morrison, the skeptic, agreed no earthly person, persons, or force, moved the stone at Jesus’ tomb and had to agree God had done it. In the recent past, Israeli archaeologists have learned much about crucifixion from an excavation on Mount Scopus. A seven-inch spike was driven through both heel bones. A heavy wrought-iron spike would be driven through the front of the wrist. Muscular pain would be excruciating. Air would be drawn into the lungs that could not be exhaled. Carbon dioxide would build up in the lungs and the bloodstream. Death would come by suffocation. When Mary of Magdala reached the tomb, she found that the stone had already been rolled away, and the winding sheets bundled on the ledge within the sepulchre. The question now arises: These doctrines are expounded in the most unambiguous terms in the Holy Qur’an. Why, then, must the Muslim adduce the Christian Scriptures to prove his point of view? This is because we are dealing with a mind which has been programmed from childhood to accept dogmas without reasoning. Today, the Christian is groping for the Truth. He is asking questions which he did not dare to ask a few centuries ago. Questions like: Two other more recent examples are Josh McDowell, a law student who was so tired of the Christians sharing with him that he sought to disprove Christianity and became a Christian based on the evidence he found. He wrote, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, to share his findings. Then there was the research journalist, Lee Strobel. His story was recently recorded in the film, A Case for Christ from the book he wrote by the same name.

Was it the Jewish leaders or their guards who stole the body of Jesus? No, it was in the interest of the Jewish leaders to make sure the body stayed in the tomb. After all, if Jesus’ body was removed from the tomb, His followers would claim He was raised from the dead, and the new religion would flourish. Less helpful is the cultural absorption of critical theories about the Bible's veracity. Markan priority means supernatural events in later gospels are discounted and the angel at the tomb becomes Mark himself. This is based on the incorrect assumption that meeting angels does not generate fear. Further Bible study would have cured this error. Historians do not force the evidence to fit a preconceived conclusion, but permit it to speak for itself. Here we examine the nature of the sources, the evidence for the death of Jesus, and the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. The sources Morison dispenses with arguments that it was a mistake or a hoax. Despite a somewhat plodding delivery, he plausibly discusses motivations and fills in gaps in the story, and brings it to life in a way more compelling than any film rendition I've ever seen. (Indeed, I'm tempted to try my own hand at writing a screenplay based on this.) Ans: What Jesus is telling Mary in so many different words is that ‘HE IS NOT RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD’, for in the colloquial language and idiom of the Jew, the expression, “For I am not yet ASCENDED unto my Father” means “I AM NOT DEAD YET’.

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Ans: She is not thinking of a dead, rotting corpse. She is looking for the L-I-V-E Jesus. She is not a “super-woman” of the American comics, who could with ease carry a corpse of at least a hundred and sixty pounds, wrapped with another ‘hundred pounds weight of aloes and myrrh’ (John 19:39) making a neat bundle of 260 pounds. This frail Jewess was not expected to carry this decaying parcel like a bundle of straws. Even if she could carry it, how was she to bury it ALONE? She might have had to dump it in some hole like a heap of rubbish. But dumping and burying are poles apart. She was looking for a Jesus who was very much alive, a Jesus she could hold by the hand and take him home for rest, relaxation and recuperation, “so that, I might take him away”. The Muslim reader of this and other allied tracts may be tempted to ask, “Do we Muslims need to use the Bible to get at the Truth of God?”Who Moved The Stone is not a theological text, and does not pretend to answer the question of who Jesus is and what his death and resurrection represent. It seems that these questions have been left for the reader to consider themselves. Instead, Morison digs through the material that we have to paint a very clear picture on what happened on that weekend over two thousand years ago, and his research and methodology is very impressive. Unfortunately, having a biased view towards these events I cannot honestly say that I have been convinced, but rather I can say that his argument and his exploration of the evidence that we have is excellent.

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Frank Morison, J. H. Jowett, M.A. of Birmingham: A Critical Appreciation (Birmingham: Allday, 1908). Re-released as J. H. Jowett M.A., D.D.: A Character Study (London: James Clarke, 1911). NEITHER SHALL THEY DIE ANYMORE”– that they will be immortalised (For further enlightenment on this aspect please read RESURRECTlON OR RESUSCITATION?). They will not be subjected to death a SECOND time. No more hunger and thirst. No more fatigue or physical dangers. Because the resurrected body will be angelised’– spiritualised – they will become like spirit creatures, they will become SPIRITS.

One example of the methodology at work here is the examination of all conceivable alternative explanations for the women's discovery that the tomb was open: Ans: She wants to put it under her bed? Absurd! She wants to embalm him? Nonsense! She wants to bury him? If so, who dug the grave? No! No! ‘she wants to take him away’. It is not only a study on the Resurrection account as the title seems to suggest, but it retells the whole passion of Jesus Christ. Because the author does not concern himself with textual criticism, he is able to impress on the reader a consistent picture of the events of Passion and Resurrection. For this reason the book will perform a helpful service to everyone who wants a reconstruction of those events.”—Augustana Book News The weight of the stone. A stone which would have weighed between one-and-a-half and two tons was rolled over the entrance of the tomb. On the Sabbath—the next day—the Jewish authorities went to the Roman governor and asked that the tomb be secured by a guard. A seal was placed on the stone so that it could not be removed without the knowledge of the authorities, and a guard was post ed (Matt. 27:62-66). Eliot’s report, dated 18 December 1929, in The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 5: 1930–1931, Ed. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden (London: Faber, 2014/New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), 38. ISBN 9780300218053

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The idea that God LOST whole portions of His Book is something only a modern Laodicean would be spiritually dumbed-down enough to believe. And don't even attempt to correct me by saying He simply "allowed" it to be lost. It's His word. God PROMISED to keep it. See Psalm 12:6-7, Matthew 24:35, etc. Ans: Because he had not DIED and was not RESURRECTED. If he had DIED and if he was RESURRECTED, he would not have any reason to be AFRAID. Why? Because the resurrected body can’t DIE twice. Who says so? The Bible says so:”… it is ordained unto all men ONCE to die, and after that the judgement.” (Hebrew 9:27). The idea that the resurrected person cannot die TWICE is further supported by what Jesus Christ had most authoritatively pronounced regarding the resurrection. He subsequently wrote the book And Pilate said — after pursuing research in Palestine, during which he also traced the water supply in ancient Jerusalem. [35] He spent one month in Palestine and received on the ground assistance from the Swedish-born specialist photographer Gastgifvar Eric Matson. Matson, who was a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, supplied more than fifty photographic plates that are reproduced in the book. [36] He argued in favour of the historical authenticity of the portrait concerning Pilate's role in the trial of Jesus as presented in the four gospels collected in the New Testament. The end of the book included another discussion about the resurrection as an event. [37] Bibliography [ edit ] A well-arranged summary of events relating to the resurrection of Christ and the pros and cons in the debate over their acceptance with emphasis on the latter.”—Watchman ExaminerMany people have gone out to write a book that Morison has attempted to write and some of these books have also been published, however the difference is that Morison went into his project with an open mind. Many of the other writers (who will not be named) have not done this. They already have a direction they wish to head, and will simply make point of fact statements (such as the gospels being unreliable) without actually digging much deeper to provide supporting evidence as to why they believe that the gospels are unreliable. Several readers have complained that this book does not answer the question of its title. And yet it does put forth an interesting hypothesis. Matthew 27:64-65 states that on Saturday the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to set a guard at the tomb to prevent anyone from taking the body, and that Pilate (being thoroughly disgusted with the whole affair) told them to post their own guards. Presumably they did. If so, while the Temple Guards were there, perhaps before dawn Sunday morning, something unexpected happened. Perhaps it was they who moved the stone, upon hearing a sound within. Their story is not recorded in Scripture, but they could have made an abrupt and perhaps noisy departure. In Mark's version of the story, when the women arrived shortly thereafter, they found a young man, who told them, "He goeth before you into Galilee." Morison reminds us that Jesus had used the same words Thursday night when leading the eleven disciples to Gethsemane, and says there was also an unnamed young man present (Mark 14:51-52). "If St. Mark withheld his name it must have been for very good and sufficient reason," but maybe this person had been attracted by the guards' departure. John Wenham, The Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Accounts in Conflict? (Exeter: Patternoster Press, 1996). Last Easter week, I decided it'd be appropriate to reread this famous work of Christian apologetics. Morison, an atheist journalist (and colleague of Dorothy Sayers'), started looking into Jesus' death to try to write a materialistic account of what must've really happened, but during his investigation he became convinced that Jesus really did rise from the dead. This book is the result of his investigation.