The Case for Christ Student Response #8

In the first term of this school year my grade 7/8 class has read The Case for Christ: Student Edition by Lee Strobel. At the end of the study of the book each student was asked to answer one of the questions posed in the chapters of the book. I told that I would be sharing their responses online. So, throughout the rest of the year I will be posting their work. Please note, I have not edited these responses, they are exactly what the student handed me.

Did Jesus Fake his death?

Did Jesus Fake his death? For many centuries people have wondered “Did Jesus fake his death?” Yet Christianity says that Jesus did in fact d`o that. According to the New testament in the bible Jesus got “run over” by the roman government, which lead to some horrifying punishments for that day. Jesus’s body lay dead for 3 days, Then according to the bible instead of his body decomposing, he resurrected and came back to life.

Before a person can be resurrected from the dead, they need to be dead. So the first question that some people may ask is, “Did Jesus really dies on the cross? Or he might have faked his death. And the resurrection that appeared to follow?”

One solution to the problem of a dead person coming back to life from the dead is the suggestion that maybe Jesus really didn’t die on the cross to begin with, but maybe he fainted from the exhaustion on the cross or he took a drug that could make him look dead. Then he revived in the cold and damp air of the tomb.

I did some research and I found a website that had some information about the topic of “Did Jesus Fake his death?” And here is what it had to say (in my own words). Whether Jesus did fake his death, survived his death, or died on the cross, nobody knows that with the evidence that we have, but one thing that we know is certain, He didn’t die and then come back to life 3 days later just to fly up to heaven and disappear from the whole population of Jerusalem. But as I already mentioned there is no reliable evidence that can prove if Jesus did live, die and come back to life, or not.

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Works Cited

Cut2thetruth. "Cut2thetruth." Cut2TheTruth. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2016.

Strobel, Lee, and Jane Vogel. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI: ZondervanPublishingHouse, 2001. Print.