Saying “he’s been raised from the dead” if he wasn’t is simply inexplicable historically. I am reminded of John Updike’s trenchant poem: Let us not mock God with metaphor, analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of earlier ages: let us walk through the door. ……………. Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.7
He is risen indeed.
