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Added more from the quote by Sir Norman Anderson.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Anderson_(missionary) Sir Norman Anderson,] O.B.E., Q.C., LL.D., F.B.A., [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_resurrection_anderson.html "The Evidence for the Resurrection", IVP, 1950.]
: Paul, in the fifteenth chapter of his Epistle to the Corinthians, gives a detailed list of several resurrection appearances. Now there is scarcely a scholar who has doubted the genuineness of 1 Corinthians, and its date is generally accepted as about 56 A.D. But the apostle writes that he had not only previously given his readers this information orally (i.e., in 49 A.D.), but had himself 'received' it, presumably from those who were apostles before him. This may take us back to 40 A.D. or to within some ten years of the crucifixion.... Paul tells us that in 56 A.D. the majority of some 500 original witnesses were still alive....
It may indeed be objected by some critic that a resurrection
from the dead is so incredible that no amount of evidence would suffice. Such an attitude seems prejudiced and unscientific, but let that pass. Let us assume that the resurrection of an ordinary man is indeed incredible. But such a line of reasoning cannot apply to the One whom we are considering. He
was unique in all He did; in all He said; in all He was. Whichever way one looks at Him, He is in a
class by Himself. Even apart from the resurrection, there are excellent and convincing reasons for believing that He was 'God manifest in the flesh'. Is it, then, so incredible that such a One should rise
from the dead? It would have been far more incredible if He had not. It is, indeed, the profoundest of
mysteries that He should ever have died 'for us men and for our salvation': but, having died, it is no
mystery that He should have risen.
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[[Justin Martyr]], ''The first apology of Justin,'' chapter LXVII. In ANF1, that is, [https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01 Roberts A, Donaldson J and Coxe AC (1885) ''Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 1'', at Christian Classics Ethereal Library.] Quoted by Kidd BJ (1920) ''Documents illustrative of the history of the church: Vol I: To AD313''. [C 156 AD. Re: Resurrection. C 156 AD.]
: But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because ... Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration.
