Cold-Case Christianity (Updated & Expanded Edition): A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels

by J. Warner Wallace

1. While individuals hallucinate, there are no examples of large groups of people having the exact same hallucination. 2. While a short, momentary group hallucination may seem reasonable, long, sustained, and detailed hallucinations are unsupported historically and intuitively unreasonable. 3. The risen Christ was reportedly seen on more than one occasion by several different groups (and subsets of groups). It’s unreasonable these diverse sightings were additional group hallucinations of one nature or another. 4. Not all the disciples were inclined favorably toward such a hallucination. The disciples included people like Thomas, who was skeptical and did not expect Jesus to come back to life. 5. If the resurrection was simply a hallucination, what became of Jesus’s corpse? The absence of the body is unexplainable under this scenario.