The Watchtower acknowledges that Jesus’ body was no longer in the tomb after the stone was rolled away.
Neither the Roman authorities nor the Jewish leadership ever produced it.
The Watchtower doesn’t believe that the disciples stole the body.
So what happened to it?
The Watchtower insists that it was not raised from the dead: Continue reading
The Watchtower has stated: “The majority of Christendom’s churches say that there are three persons in one God, that he is, as it were, a “three-headed” God. They teach that when Jesus died, God died.” (The Watchtower, “Are the Churches Leading the Nations Into Collision With God?”, 10/15/71, p. 627)
It’s clear that the Watchtower is trying to make the concept of the deity of Christ appear absurd.
Before we respond to the substance of the Watchtower’s argument, let’s address two threshold challenges. Continue reading
The Watchtower teaches that Jesus’ body never rose from the dead. Rather, “at his resurrection from the dead, Jesus was brought forth with a spirit body.”[1]
Last time, we asked, “What did Jesus say would be raised?” We looked at his prophecy in John 2:19-21 that if his body was destroyed, in three days he would raise it up.
This time, let’s look at what happened after the resurrection and see what Jesus had to say about his resurrected form. Continue reading
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