Hallelujah, Christ is risen, indeed he has risen. And since it's Easter, I'm posing a question

about Christ's resurrection. I've never seen skeptics adequately answer. But before I do that,

I need to go over a key piece of evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now, one natural

explanation for the disciples claim to have seen Jesus after his death are grief-induced hallucinations.

In these cases, a person misses a deceased loved one so much that they imagine the person has come back from the dead to visit them.

Maybe the disciples had similar hallucinations of the risen Jesus.

However, this explanation doesn't work for a variety of reasons, including the fact that St. Paul saw Jesus on the road to Damascus, but he was not a grieving disciple.

Studies on grief-induced hallucinations show that true hallucinations are not common.

And the Hayes and Luddar 2016 study only found one case of grief-induced hallucination involving a non-family member of the deceased,

which is the case with the disciples. Moreover, most of these cases involved only feeling the

presence of a deceased person. Just 2% involved a tactile hallucination of touching the dead person,

which would parallel the claims of having prolonged encounters

with an embodied Jesus, as described in Luke and John's Gospels.

Grief-induced hallucinations also tend to persist for many years after death, but the claims

that Jesus appeared to his disciples stop just a few weeks after his crucifixion.

Moreover, we'd expect the apostles to hallucinate seeing Jesus risen in heaven, not seeing him risen on earth.

And Christ's empty tomb showed they were not merely hallucinating.

But one of the biggest problems with the hallucination theory is that the historical evidence shows groups of people

claimed to have seen Jesus after his death,

not just single individuals. These include the 12 apostles and even 500 other people, as recorded in 1st Corinthians 15.

But hallucinations are like dreams. You can't share them because they're internal and subjective.

The best explanation for groups of people

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