Jesus Is The Lamb
Objectives: The students will learn:
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Different false theories about
why Jesus wasn’t resurrected.
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How to refute these false
theories.
Memory Verse: 1 Corinthians 5:7
Setup Plush Toys
Lesson, with plush toys, show the different theories about
why Jesus wasn't raised from the dead. (See below) after showing the theory, ask
students to refute the theory.
Then, after the teacher shows the theories, each group will
try and challenge another group with each of the theory. (ie, group 1 tells group
2 that Jesus just fainted. Group 2 then tells group 1 why that theory is
invalid.)
The First group of Theories involves taking of the body.
Some notes about the tomb.
The Authorities Moved the Body.
- Why would they do that?
- They would have shown the body to show that Jesus was
dead.
- The Romans and Sanhedrin accused the disciples of stealing
the body.
- Does not explain the Resurrection Appearances.
- Wouldn’t be able to get pass the guards.
- The Disciples wouldn’t have died for a cause that they
didn’t believe in.
- The Disciples were taught to the highest moral principles.
- Same problems with “Disciples Stole the Body”
- Same problems as above.
- Didn’t keep people from stepping on the lettuce
- The Authorities would have shown the body.
- Someone would have gone to the tomb.
- The Authorities would have shown the body.
- Why is it that only the Women were wrong, the disciples
would have had to go to the wrong tomb also?
- Support for this Idea
- Mary thought Jesus was the Garden
- Two disciples thought Jesus was a stranger
- Takes the evidence of initial doubt only, without
considering context and the change in the disciples.
- It would have been impossible to impersonate Christ’s
wounds
- Doesn’t explain empty tomb.
- Jesus couldn’t have opened the tomb.
- Burial cloth would have suffocated him.
- The Authorities would have shown the body.
- Support for idea
- Criminals were thrown into a landfill after execution.
- Jesus was a respected Rabbi; people would see that He had
a proper burial.
- Requires Two Miracles, (Destroying the Body and The
Theophany Appearances)
- Requires God to lie.
- How could so many people have hallucinations--especially
500 at one time?
- Furthermore, the appearances happened under
different conditions and were spread out over different times.
- The disciples were reluctant to believe in the
resurrection.
- Theory contradicts principles which are essential to
hallucinations.
- Only certain kinds of people have hallucinations.
- high-strung
- highly imaginative
- nervous people.
- paranoid
- schizophrenic
- linked to his particular past experiences
- Hallucinations are usually restricted to when and where
they occur. They usually occur in a nostalgic atmosphere or in a place of
familiar surroundings which places the person to a reminiscing mood.
- They occur in people when there is a spirit of
anticipation or hopeful expectation. The historical record shows no such
anticipation existed. They were prone to disbelieve even after they were told
of the resurrection.
Don't laugh, I used this one as an illustration for the first time I taught
this lesson. Three weeks later, I was channel surfing on the radio and heard
this theory on the Art Bell show.
- No evidence for Aliens present.
- No means for aliens to come to Earth
- No means for aliens to develop on other planets. see Dr Kent Hoven at http://www.drdino.com/
