Do you believe in resurrection ?

If I were to tell you that Bill Gates, tech entrepreneur and now a benefactor of humanity, died on Monday and had resurrected this morning, you would say: “Stop that nonsense, if he’s alive today, he wasn’t really dead on Monday!” 

In other words, this simply wouldn’t fly in this day and age, and someone who witnessed that incredible event would immediately be deposed, under oath as a key witness. 

I bring up that subject because Easter was just last week-end. In fact, Jesus’ resurrection were related through the Gospels, a very long time after Jesus-Christ crucifixion and death. The Gospel of Mark goes back to about 33 to 40 years after that event, Matthew and Luke around 52 to 55, and John 67 to 75 ans after the crucifixion of Christ. 

In these Me-too days, we’re chocked when harassment victims wait 20 years to chime in, here we’re talking about a much longer time-span, making the testimony so much harder to believe! 

Despite the fact that authorship of these Gospels is quite murky, none of them were written by eyewitnesses. All this to say, that a few days after Easter was celebrated, this essential event in the Christian liturgy might be all made-up. 

We sure have no proof for it but we have no proof that this unlikely miracle happened either. 

The only tangible elements we have are some delicious Easter eggs and a gregarious Easter Bunny. 

All the rest could very well be a hoax, some fake news or a sampling of early conspiracy theories.