The testimony of the new testament in the resurrection of Jesus does not rest on inferences drawn from a missing body.

It is not simply that people found an empty tomb and then made the gratuitous

assumption that the only reason that could explain the emptiness of the tomb would be that Jesus had been raised

from the dead.

Now the faith of the church does not rest on that kind of speculation, but it rests upon the witness of the scriptures, both old

and New Testament, of the authors of the New Testament who said that they are

proclaiming for us what they have seen with their eyes and heard with their ears.

It is not simply the empty tomb, but it is the post-resuraction appearances of Jesus.

Where Paul tells us he appeared to the women,

he appeared to the 12, he appeared to Thomas,

who was skeptical.

At one occasion he appeared to 500 people at one time and Paul says

that as one born out of due time he appeared also to me so that the testimony of the New Testament to the resurrection of Jesus is the testimony

of those who saw him, who touched him, who ain't with him, and who spoke with him.

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