>> 2) Maybe they really believed that there *was* a resurrection. Jesus seemed
>> like a fairly intelligent guy; I don't find it hard to believe that he
>> could have either tricked them into thinking that they saw a resurrection,
>> or simply convinced them that he was resurrected.
>
>It's hard to trick someone when they themselves have placed their
>hand into a wound on your side, after you had been seen firsthand
>(by John) crucified on the cross...
Once again, this goes back to the accuracy of the Biblical record. How do we
know that that really happened, rather than having been invented after the
fact by a creative and overly enthusiastic writer?
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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.