(July 11, 2015 at 7:43 pm)Pizza Wrote: "However, taken together with the beliefs of the disciples, as well as Paul and James, that they had seen the risen Jesus, the empty tomb provides powerful support in favor of the resurrection."
How so?
The disciples claimed that they saw Jesus alive.
If the body was still in the tomb, all the Jews (or Romans) had to do was to produce the corpse and Christianity would have ended right then.
Instead, even the Jews acknowledged that the tomb was empty.
(They accused the disciples of stealing the body.)