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Jesus didn't physically rise from the dead. John Warwick Montgomery.

The idea that Jesus did not really die on the cross is implausible based on scriptural

descriptions of both his crucified and resurrected body.

The original texts of Scripture are far better attested and preserved than any

ancient documents normally considered credible by scholars.

The testimonies contained in Scripture stand up against examination of whether a witness is

reliable. The resurrection miracle meets a test humans have been passing for millennia,

determining whether a body is dead or alive. A spiritual resurrection is impossible to prove

because it has no physical standard. Jesus' physical resurrection is the promise and proof of our

own physical resurrection to eternity. Unbelievers have often said that Jesus could not have survived

crucifixion. Let's see if that so or not and why the right answer to the question is of utmost

importance. Objections to a physical resurrection. Typical of those objecting to Jesus' physical

resurrection was a German theologian Carl Venturini. Early in the nineteenth century, Venturini said

that Jesus had not really died on the cross but had swooned. According to this swoon theory,

the disciples thought that Jesus had been resurrected, but really he had just fainted and later

woke up. What do you think? My view is that if you can believe that you shouldn't have any problem

believing in Jesus' resurrection from the dead since such a swoon would have been more miraculous

than the resurrection. Why? Here are just a few reasons. One, the Roman soldiers crucifying Jesus

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