Having argued sufficiently for the first fact, Mike proceeded to the next. “Fact number two: The empty tomb. An impressive 75 percent of scholars who study the subject acknowledge the empty tomb.” Mike explained that there were multiple reasons to believe that Jesus’ tomb was empty a few days after his crucifixion. First, the Christian movement was founded on the principle that Jesus had been raised and was no longer dead. Christianity began in Jerusalem, and if Jesus’ body had still been in the tomb, the Jewish authorities in Jerusalem could have easily ended Christianity by parading Jesus’
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