The resurrection of Jesus Christ has always been a kind of struggle for me. Theologians, philosophers, poets, and novelists have for two thousand years wrestled with it. Even the New Testament writers didn't agree in their accounts of it. In spite of misconceptions about how the Gospels were put together scholars have shown that none of the Gospel writers were actual eyewitnesses to the resurrection. And St. Paul, who writes about it the most, never mentions an empty tomb, the stone rolled away, talking angels at the grave site, or Jesus reappearing to meet with his disciples. Paul's interpretation of the resurrection seems to be in a spiritual sense only. Many would argue that without a resurrection we knock down all of the pillars of the Christian faith. But do we need a resurrected Christ in order to be inspired and perhaps even transformed by the life of Jesus? Wasn't it his life after all that captured the world and still influences followers...
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