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The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Introduction

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central event of the narratives of the Christian Gospels and other religious texts of the New Testament. According to these texts, Jesus Christ leaves his place on the Crucifix on the third day after his death and appears to some of his disciplines and then to other apostles. The event is the beginning and foundation of the Christian faith. In this exploratory research paper, we shall discuss the significance of this concept on Christian faith and the different views attached to it.

The resurrection of Christ is one of the founding concepts of the Christian faith but there are religious scholars and questioners who believe that it may lack practicality. Although this has been countered by religious people who claim that religion is not about practicality but about faith and belief, the fact still remains that there are two sides to this concept. One is the religious view where practicality has been shunned to accept the impossible and another where practicality has been adopted to question the faith of millions (Sanders, 1993, 276-281).

Where millions place their faith on the resurrection of Christ, three days after his death, there are thousands who believe that this might have been the result of exaggeration that could have been caused over the hundreds of years that this story has had. Additionally, other religions have also discussed this concept. Islam, the last religion on Earth, embraces Christianity as a brother would embrace another brother and supports the notion that Jesus Christ has indeed been resurrected and shall return on the Day of Judgment to save those who did good deeds in their lives and steered clear from sins and vice (Tamara, 2004, 45).

According to the Gospels, the place of Jesus Christ's resurrection is the tomb in which he was placed, which is located just outside the walls of Jerusalem near Golgotha, Calvary. It is the small rocky promontory where Jesus Christ was crucified. The memory of the holy place has been preserved to date as the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher. The Gospels do not specifically indicate the date of the resurrection however; they tell us that the discovery was made at the dawn of the day after 'the Sabbath' (three days after the death of Christ). Chronologically speaking, the three days mentioned in the Gospels are actually just a little more than a day and a half, from sunset on Friday to dawn on Sunday. Even the date of the death of Jesus is not mentioned specifically in the gospels. Mostly, scholars believe that it is Friday, April 7. The Christian tradition considers the event of the resurrection of Jesus as historical and the foundation of Christian faith. According to the theologian 'Hans Kessler', the resurrection is still "a reality acceptable and understandable only in faith", rather than a fact which can be investigated and verified by means of history. Scholars consider the event as the historical, anthropological and spiritual ...