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I love the idea that the guards at the tomb actually needed to be more worried about keeping the dead man inside than the alive people outside! Little did they realize the cosmic forces they were messing with.
Some people will say that the grave was robbed and that it's all a hoax. There's a lot you have to believe for in order to support that point of view. You have to buy into the idea that the disciples somehow overcame an entire guard of soldiers who were protecting the tomb, and then you have to ignore all the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus. Most of these disciples would die as martyrs, proclaiming to the very end that Jesus had risen from the dead, when any one of them could have pronounced it a hoax and given up the game. What are the chances they would all die for a hoax?
When Pilate tells a guard of soldiers to protect the tomb, it must have taken something supernatural for that tomb to have been emptied. God was at work!
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