Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?

[Drich]

And if you pay very close attention you'll see that Alec Guinness is replaced by a mannequin on wires, followed by a jump cut of empty sliced robes falling.

Even the Force rationalisation doesn’t hold with the line "If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine".

So Force magic or editing magic? And how do we know it happened at all?

It depends if your looking from an editing perspective or a story line perspective. In a sense, "what I told you was true, from a certain point of view."