No, it does not rest on Faith. That's as silly as saying that the historical facticity of Julius Caesar's murder rests of "faith". It is a silly and irrational statement.
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a recorded fact of History attested by numerous Eyewitnesses and committed to written records in which we may justly have FAR more evidentiary confidence (for the reasons posted above) than, for example, Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars.
Author |
Written |
Earliest Copy |
Time Span |
# Mss. |
Caesar |
100-44 B.C. |
900 A.D. |
1,000 yrs |
10 |
Plato |
427-347 B.C. |
900 A.D. |
1,200 yrs |
7 |
Thucydides |
460-400 B.C. |
900 A.D. |
1,300 yrs |
8 |
Tacitus |
100 A.D. |
1100 A.D. |
1,000 yrs |
20 |
Suetonius |
75-160 A.D. |
950 A.D. |
800 yrs |
8 |
Homer (Iliad) |
900 B.C. |
400 B.C. |
500 yrs |
643 |
New Testament |
40-100 A.D. |
125 A.D. |
25-50 yrs |
24,000 |
The Garden Tomb
August 27, 2002 and still empty.