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

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Ans: The Gospel writers say that she went to “anoint” him. The Hebrew word for anoint is “masaha”, which means –‘to rub’, ‘to massage’, ‘to anoint’. The word and its meaning are the same in the Arabic language also. From this root word “masaha” we get the Arabic word “MASEEH” and the Hebrew “MESSIAH” both meaning the same thing –“the anointed one” which is translated into Greek as “Christos” from which we derive the word Christ.

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On Sayer's career at S. H. Benson see Alzine Stone Dale, Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers (Lincoln, New England: iUniverse, 2003) ISBN 978-0595266036 and Barbara Reynolds, Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993). ISBN 0312153538 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. Starting with the night Christ was arrested, this book mainly looks at those events surrounding the arrest and the events following the resurrection. I not only appreciated how slowly this man tried to uncover the facts, but how he also incorporated the historical and cultural settings of the time, and the psychology of the people involved. Those two things shed much light on the events surrounding the resurrection, giving me access to an insight I would never be able to have on my own without several history and cultural lessons! In this treatise and others, we have used the Christians’ own book of authority, the BIBLE and his own logic, to refute his claims. This is the system which AIIah (Allah: The proper noun for God Almighty in the Semitic languages.) Subha nahu Wa Ta’aala uses when reasoning with His creatures. The Holy Qur’an commands the Muslim to demand from the Jews and the Christians their authority for their fanciful claims that “SALVATION” is exclusively their right:

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 I appreciate that this book details the author’s exploration of the death and resurrection of Christ - a study that uses the four Gospels and some limited Gentile material. I recognise it as a profound bibliographical account. That, however, is where the book stops. 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.

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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. The Resurrection is a fact of history. And Christian belief is invalid I without it. As the first great front-runner of Christianity contended, "If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless" (1 Cor. 15:14, NLT). Though he had given no indication of any physical pain or injury he might have suffered, it would be excruciatingly painful if he now allowed her to touch him with love and affection. Can another reason be advanced for this “Touch me not”? Jesus continues, “For I am not yet ASCENDED unto my Father:” (John 20:17). 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: Did the disciples steal the body of Jesus? No. They were cringing and hiding from the Jewish leaders and the Romans. They did not become emboldened in their faith until after Easter. Besides, they would have had to overcome the trained Roman soldiers, and the tomb was sealed with a Roman seal. Breaking that seal was punishable by death. So, it wasn’t the disciples.

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So ends the book. Frank Morrison takes a look at the last few days of Jesus, and -- using commonly accepted accounts (even among the students of historical criticism) devoid of the supernatural -- weaves the case for the certainty of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Essentially, he says this: it is either we throw out the entirety of the gospels and other early writings, or -- if we accept even part of them -- agree that a historical Jesus died and rose again. To him, there can be no other explanation for the empty tomb.