- THEORY: “They looked in the wrong grave.”
RESPONSE: - His disciples knew where they had buried the Lord—The memory was fresh.
- THEORY: “His disciples stole the body away.”
RESPONSE: - This was purchased testimony (Matthew 28:11-15).
- They would have been hunted down for violating Pilate’s seal on the tomb.
- THEORY: “His enemies took the body away.”
RESPONSE: - His enemies wanted the body to remain in the tomb to prove Him a fraud.
- Had they taken it, why did they not produce it to refute the resurrection doctrine?
- “And the angel answered and said to the woman, Fear not ye: for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come see where the Lord lay.” (Matthew 28:5-6)
- THEORY: “Christ merely swooned on the cross and later revived in the tomb.”
RESPONSE: - His side was pierced—blood and water came forth. Death was pronounced by the Romans.
- THEORY: “The witnesses were all hallucinating.”
RESPONSE: - That many people could not have been similarly affected at the same time.
- THE ONLY reasonable explanation:
- CHRIST AROSE!
The “Missing Body” Theories Versus the Truth
Faith & Reason Nexus 
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