1. See the answer to the post before this.
2. Anyone could have recorded Jesus' sin if it existed, but none did. Pilate could find no fault with Jesus just as Agrippa II could not find reason to keep Paul imprisoned. The Jews, though they tried, could find no fault with Jesus.
3. See the response to the post before this.
4. See the response to the post before this.
5. See the response to the post before this.
6. See the response to the post before this.a. Jesus predicted His resurrection, so it would make sense the tomb would be empty.
b. Why would a non-Christian steal Jesus' body and never present it as evidence to disprove Christianity? There is no motivation. The tomb we are told was secured by two guards. If they guards let Jesus go missing they would face death, just as they would face death if they let a man on the cross live. Men of the Sanhedrin went to the tomb to put spices on His body. This was the highest body of Israel which as a whole do reject Jesus being God.
c. Jesus was seen resurrected after He died, which explains why the tomb was empty.
The empty tomb is testified by enemy sources-enemy attestation. Rather than point to an occupied tomb, early critics accused Jesus' disciples of stealing the body (Matt. 28.12-13; Justyn Martyr, Trypho 108; Tertullian, De Spectaculis 30).
This is the only early opposing theory we know of.
Every possible angle is examined in The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, 2004, Gary R. Habermas.
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