Uncover 5 Common Myths Some Believe About Jesus' Resurrection!

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Millions of people all over the world believe, as do we here at Tomorrow’s World, that almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ of Nazareth rose from the dead after being crucified by the Romans. But this central belief of the Christian faith has accumulated a lot of myths and misconceptions over the years. Can we separate the fact from the fiction?

Join me on this episode of Tomorrow’s World as we tackle five myths about the resurrection of Jesus.

Greetings, and welcome to Tomorrow’s World, where we help you make sense of your world through the pages of the Bible. Today we are going to tackle five common myths and misconceptions about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most momentous event in human history. Now, some of them you may hear others claim—and some you may believe yourself. Today, we’ll shed the lights of God’s word, history, and logic on these myths to clear them away, so that only the truth remains.

But for now, let’s get to myth busting. Here’s the first myth we’ll tackle:

It doesn’t matter whether Jesus really rose from the dead. He was still a great teacher.

This idea that it doesn’t really matter whether Jesus was resurrected has become popular because of our secular age that is uncomfortable with anything supernatural or miraculous.

Yet the first-century Church was under no illusions. In fact, look in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. As we do, let me make a point here that we’ll use again later. Even secular, non-Christian scholars believe that the letter of 1 Corinthians was written or dictated by Paul in the early 50s AD, so only around 20 years after the crucifixion.

Did the Apostle Paul believe that it doesn’t really matter whether the resurrection was real or not? Let’s look, beginning in verse 14.

And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable” (vv. 14–19).

Paul understood what we should all understand—if Jesus Christ did not actually rise from the grave, then Christianity is a sham. No one is forgiven of their sins by Jesus’ shed blood, and there’s no future resurrection for those who die, and Jesus’ teachings are just one more philosophy of men.

Jesus knew the importance of His resurrection, as well. Though He did many miracles during His ministry, when pressed to provide a sign that He was the Christ, note His own response in Matthew chapter 12:

He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (vv. 39–40).

In fact, think about it. Jesus’ claims He would literally rise from the dead are peppered throughout His teachings. If He did not rise, then He was a liar or a lunatic, so why should His teachings have any credibility?

No, the idea that “It doesn’t matter whether Jesus really rose from the dead” is completely a myth and fundamentally untrue.

Our second myth claims that:

The resurrection was only a legend about Jesus that developed long after He had died.

Is this true? After all, as centuries pass, legends do become attached to the stories of famous people.

Actually, we’ve already answered this one. Remember what we said about the book of 1 Corinthians and its mention of the resurrection—that even secular scholars believe it was written by the Apostle Paul in the early 50s AD, only about 20 years after Jesus’ death. That’s not much time for a legend to arise.

In fact, we’ll find that belief in the resurrection existed even earlier than that. Turn to verse 3 of chapter 15, and read carefully:

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time (1 Corinthians 15:3–8).


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