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We're obviously celebrating the resurrection of Jesus today, which is no small thing.

You don't know anyone else who died and came back to life never to die again.

Amen.

And even that claim sounds preposterous to many, which is why for 2,000 years, many people

have tried to disprove Jesus' resurrection.

Islam teaches that Jesus didn't even die on the cross, much less rise from the grave.

Yet this theory was invented by Muhammad 600 years after the crucifixion occurred.

Others have claimed that Jesus' tomb was not actually empty.

The disciples went to the wrong tomb.

And ever since that day, everybody's been going to the

wrong tomb, if only someone would check next door. Others have said the disciples were delusional,

hallucinatory at best, when they claimed they'd seen Jesus alive after he died. But even the thought

of resurrection from the grave was virtually inconceivable in both

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