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"It would require overpowering the Roman guards followed by the hard part. Keeping the secret, "

hmm 12 guys can over poower two gaurds? In fact we don't even know if the gaurds existed or not. Keeping secrets well do you think we know half the secrets that Hitlery and BillyBob kept during their reign.

"There are literally hundreds of empty tombs in Jerusalem.

Not at the time there wasn't"

And how do you know that in fact there are hundreds of tombs in Jerusalem at the time and at the time tombs were not used exclusively for one person generally hundreds could be interred in one. from time to time the tombs are cleared out to make rooms for new bodies and so at any one time there might be several satnding empty.

"The Bible is by far the most authenticated book of antiquity. Do you believe that Ceasar's Commentary on the Gallic Wars is accurate?"

Hmm authenticated by who? Ceasar's works are probably much closer to being correct as there are other contemporary accounts of Ceasar's actions. His commentray gives his opinion of things but they correspond well with other accounts and also those accounts aren't inspired by God so any decrepances are forgivable.

Ceasar's works are probably much closer to being correct as there are other contemporary accounts of Ceasar's actions.

Caesar's Commentaries was written about 60 BC. The earliest extant copy dates from 900 A.D. The Gospel of John was written about 100 A.D. The earliest extant copy comes from about 130 AD. The Gospel is more historically reliable. :-)

"The interval between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be, in fact, negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the N.T. may be regarded as finally established. To be skeptical of the 27 documents in the N.T. and to say they are unreliable is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as these in the N.T."
--Sir Frederic Kenyon, former director and principal librarian of the British Museum