Hey, Nobody Said It WASN'T True

[DeistPaladin]

The Jews in that time where hemorrhaging members upto 5000 at a gathering!!! and all they had to do is simply produce a body and it would all be over. Remember 7/8 of the church was converted jews. because of all the reason Jesus blasted the leaders and the unfair practices. Paul's efforts were a small work off to the side which is why the apostles mostly let him do his own thing. they knew someone had to reachout to the gentiles, and Paul wanted the job so they let him have it.. The rest that followed Christ worked with primarily jewish people. that is 11 to 1 favoring apostoles converting jews to one converting gentiles, all of which again could have been stopped if the high console could produce a body. A fact Peter and john brought up at their trial in acts 4 that the pharisees had no answer for.

You're using folklore to prove your mythology. 

Your very own scripture indicates that early Christianity wasn't so clear about who and what Jesus was. 

1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

This is a reference to the Docetic Christians who thought Jesus was just a spirit. Now why would they think so in the very era when there were people who supposedly had seen the flesh-and-blood Jesus? And why does "John" condemn them with the words of faith, calling upon the reader to "believe" and "confess" that Jesus had come in the flesh instead of appealing to an obvious history?