Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 104
104 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction resolved the quandary by openly professing that as he had never died so there was no question of a body being left behind and that his body had in fact gone along with him during the course of his migration. In this way the problem of the disappearance of the body could have been easily resolved. But this confession was impossible to make. Those who would have dared to admit that Jesus as was seen alive and gradually moving away from Judea faced the peril of being condemned by the Roman Law as accessories to the crime of escape from justice. To seek refuge in the concoction of a story, like the ascent of Jesus as to heaven offered a safer option, however bizarre the idea. Yet of course it would involve indulgence in falsehood. We must pay our tribute to the integrity of the early disciples who despite this predicament did not seek refuge in a false statement. All writers of the Gospels chose to remain silent on this issue rather than take refuge behind a smoke screen of misstatements. No doubt they must have suffered the jeering of their adversaries, but they chose to suffer in silence. Mysterious silence on the part of those who knew the inside story must have been largely responsible for sowing the seeds of doubt in the minds of Christians of later generations. They must have wondered: why, after the soul of Jesus Christ as had departed, was there no mention of his body being left behind? Where had it gone and what had happened to it? Why did the soul of Christ as return to the same body if it ever did? These vital but unanswered questions could have given birth to other questions. If revival meant returning to the same body, what must have happened to Jesus Christ as after the second term of his imprisonment in the