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HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION is, they are very personal and private, and people don’t have collective hallucinations. Jesus appeared to the people in the morning; He fixed breakfast with them. They hallucinated having breakfast. He appeared at noon, He walked with them to Emmaus, He appeared with them at suppertime several times, He appeared inside, He appeared outside. He even appeared to 500 people at one time. Not only did they see Him, but they heard Him, talked to Him, handled Him, and watched Him eat. They could not have been hallucinating all these things. Not to mention the other evidence; because having thus hallucinated that Jesus was alive and had appeared to them, they ran to the tomb and hallucinated that the tomb was empty, the guard was gone, the stone was rolled away, and the grave clothes were missing. Then they began to preach that Jesus rose from the dead. If that were the case, this hallucination would be contagious. They declared that “You, Sanhedrin, you have taken with wicked hands and you have slain the Prince of Life and Glory and God has raised Him from the dead.” So, the Sanhedrin ran down to the tomb, and they had the same hallucination. They hallucinated that it was empty, too. Then the Romans, seeing there was a tumult made, went down and checked things out and talked to the guard. The guards all had hallucinations that the tomb was empty. This is all too ridiculous, obviously. It doesn’t deal with any of the evidence. 123
THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH THE WRONG TOMB THEORY There is also the theory which suggests the women went to the wrong tomb. But again, we must deal with the evidence. It is conceivable that the women got mixed up, and though they had been there on Friday evening, they went to the wrong tomb. According to Kirsopp Lake, a liberal biblical scholar who taught at Harvard (1914-37), this was conceivable in that there were so many tombs around Jerusalem. But I have been to that tomb, and there aren’t any tombs around it—nor were there tombs around it at the time of Christ. If this theory were correct, the women went to the wrong tomb, and Peter and John (by themselves), ran to the wrong tomb, and then the disciples came and they went to the wrong tomb. Joseph of Arimathaea, who owned the tomb, naturally would want to see what happened, and yet he, too, went to the wrong tomb. Of course, the Sanhedrin also was concerned, and they went to the wrong tomb. And then, of course, the angel came down, and the angel went to the wrong tomb—but what does an angel know about tombs? Of course, all the while there were the guards saying, “Hey, fellows, we’re over here” They, at least, were at the right tomb. Again, this is obviously a wrong theory, and it doesn’t answer any of the facts. If the women and everyone else went to the wrong tomb and started proclaiming Christ risen from the dead, what would the Sanhedrin do? Why, they would go to the right tomb. They would tell the soldiers to roll back the stone. They would say, “Bring Him out.” Then 124
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