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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Jesus did not rise from the dead, where did the body wind up? Wouldn't the Romans have wanted to locate it to dispel any beliefs that people had about him being supernatural?[/quote]

This question is akin to suggesting that the page in Esptein’s birthday book is a forgery that somebody thought to fabricate and include in the book years before the person alleged to have created it decided to run for highest office.

[b]Jesus wasn’t widely considered supernatural at the time of his death. That widespread belief was sown years later.[/b][/quote]

I’m OP. I agree with the bolded though I’m surprised you do. The implication of your statement is that something changed between ~33 AD (when Jesus was crucified) and the 50s AD when the earliest written sources appear about Jesus and portray him as a literal divinity. Christians have a pretty clear answer as to what changed: Jesus appeared to people and announced that he had been resurrected. Non-Christians do not have a single cohesive answer except to suggest that it’s entirely possible that people could claim he appeared to them when he did not (something that is of course entirely true but isn’t much of an explanation). [/quote]

Jesus' alleged resurrection was 2 days after he died, and lasted 40 days.

Not 17 years.. 
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OP here. 17 years is the approximate amount between the crucifixion and the first written sources about Jesus, not the duration of the Resurrection. I’m not sure how you consider it contrary to anything that I’ve said that the oldest written source modestly postdates the Resurrection. [/quote]

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