The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION
the last thing you want. In fact, if He were not dead when
they put Him into the tomb, that most certainly would
have killed Him. 127
Supposedly, Jesus stays there for three days, and then
He gets up on mangled feet, hobbles to the door of the
tomb and finds there this stone weighing a few tons.
With mangled hands, He presses against the flat side of
the rock and rolls it away. Then He overcomes the
Roman guard of armed men. After that, He takes a sevenmile
hike to Emmaus and chats with some fellows on
the way. No one noticed He was limping. Then He treks
almost a hundred miles to Galilee and climbs a mountain.
There He convinces 500 people that He is the Lord
of Life.
The Swoon theory has received a fatal blow by a
skeptic himself by the name of David Friedrich Strauss—
a 19th century German who wrote on the life of Jesus.
He didn’t believe in the Resurrection, but he knew that
this theory was utterly ridiculous. Listen to what an
unbeliever says about the Swoon theory:
It is impossible that a being who had stolen half
dead out of the sepulcher, who crept about
weak and ill, wanting medical treatment, who
required bandaging, strengthening and
indulgence and who, still at last, yielded to his
sufferings, could have given to the disciples the
impression that he was a conqueror over death
and the grave, The Prince of Life, an impression
which lay at the bottom of all of their future
ministry. Such a resuscitation could only have
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