Jesus did arise from the grave (1 Cor. 15:20-23)
If Jesus was not the Christ of prophecy and there was no actual resurrection, its obvious what the results would have been.
We have been preached to and taught falsehoods for over 2000 years. Faith in the truth contained in the Holy Scriptures would be made null and void......useless. Our hope of heaven and an eternal fellowship with God would be gone....because the Old Law would still be in effect, and none of us has the required strength to walk this life void of sin......and since the majority of Christians have never followed any of the tenets of the LAW, circumcision etc.,.....annual animal sacrifices etc, there would be no method for the remission of sin possible since the OLD LAW applied only to Biblical Israel and no gentile nation.
More? If Jesus was not raised from the dead, there is no eternal life.
But such is not the case..........some might claim that Jesus never actually died, but there were witnesses to His death, disciples and enemies alike (Mark 15:40-41, Luke 23:49). His death was even verified by Pilate (Mark 15:44-45). After verification He was "Embalmed" with over 75lbs of spices. (John 19:39,40).
His burial was witnessed, as there was a 2 ton stone rolled in front of His burial chamber (Mark 15:47, Luke 23:55, Matt. 27:61). It was a new tomb, no other bodies were ever buried there, Jesus was the only one in it when it was sealed with the massive stone. The stone then was sealed with a official government seal with guards overnight. If the seal had ever been found broken and removed the punishment for doing so would have been death by crucifixion (Matt. 27:62-66).
In fear..........the next day, after seeing the seal gone, the stone moved........the Roman guards fled in terror for 2 reasons......it was a supernatural act and they feared the punishment of death via means of crucifixion themselves. (Matt. 28:11-15)......they (Jewish leaders) attempted to bribe the guards when they went into the city to say that friends of Jesus carried Him away during the night.
It was the Jewish leaders that concocted this story in an attempt to discredit the event.......but the recorded facts don't add up. The first to witness the resurrection were women, anyone attempting to make up a story about a resurrection would have never used women to verify the event as the testimony of women did not hold as much weight as did the testimony of men. The 2 Mary's were first to see the empty tomb and noticed the burial clothing of Jesus was the only thing that remained neatly folded..........anyone attempting to fake their death would never go forward in the nude and draw attention. Mary Magdelene and another Mary witnessed the empty chamber (Matt. 28:1-7)
Mary told Peter and John (John 20:1-18)
Logic: For anyone to refute the resurrection all they needed to do is produce the dead body of Jesus.......it was never produced. If the disciples of Jesus were expecting Him to be gone.......why did they go and visit an empty grave chamber? (Mark 16:1-5). In fact the disciples were in fear of the Jews until they saw a resurrected Jesus (John 20:19-20)