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

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HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION<br />

joy, and marveled, He said to them, “Have<br />

you any food here?” So they gave Him a piece<br />

of broiled fish and some honeycomb. And<br />

He took it and ate in their presence<br />

(Luke 24:38-43).<br />

This is not to mention the fact that if Jesus were just<br />

a ghost or spirit, what about the body? Well, the body is<br />

still in the tomb. What about the disciples who ran to the<br />

tomb when they heard that Jesus has risen? <strong>The</strong>y would<br />

have gotten there, the stone would be in front of the<br />

door; and Jesus would still be in the tomb. Well, the<br />

Jehovah’s Witnesses have managed to take care of that,<br />

too, with the same disregard of anything the Scripture or<br />

history teaches and they simply said that God destroyed<br />

the body. He evaporated it; it just disappeared. But there<br />

is nothing in the Bible that says anything whatsoever<br />

like that.<br />

THE WRONG PERSON THEORY<br />

Fourth, there is the view of the Muslims. This is the<br />

“wrong person theory.” I doubt very much if you ever<br />

heard of this because, other than the Muslims, I don’t<br />

know of anyone that believes it. But the Koran says of<br />

Jesus, “<strong>The</strong>y slew him not nor crucified, but it appeared<br />

so unto them” (Surah 4:157). Commentators on the<br />

Koran state that somehow, on Good Friday, there was a<br />

mix-up and Judas got crucified instead of Christ. But the<br />

eyewitness accounts say that Jesus was crucified.<br />

Second, we have Mary, His mother, standing at the<br />

foot of the Cross for all of those hours looking at<br />

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