Jesus Rose From The Dead

First of all, I am not here to argue that Jesus was the messiah, or that the Jews were wrong (Even if I do that in the process). I am arguing for the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. To begin, we need to list all of the plausible explanations, (These are widely used arguments and alternative explanations against Jesus' resurrection). 1 - He wasn't really dead 2 - The disciples stole the body and claimed he was alive 3 - The disciples were hallucinating 4 - Jesus was the son of God and he really did rise from the dead. 1: This argument is invalid and disprovable, due to the confirmed death of Christ, as documented in the Gospel of John, where a spear was cast into Jesus' side. This, according to Jim Bishop (The Day Jesus Died"(New York: Harper Collins, 1977), 257.), "The dead do not bleed, ordinarily, but the right auricle of the human heart holds liquid blood after death, and the outer sac hold a serum called hydro pericardium.", which explains Jesus bleeding, but also a spear to the side as explained in the Bible that it would have pierced his lungs and his right auricle (lining of atria) of the heart, therefore leading death anyway. The death was confirmed by Pontius Pilate before taking him down to be buried. 2: Every single disciple suffered a gruesome death (except for one) and suffered ridiculously terrible persecution when they claimed to have seen Christ resurrected, however, if the disciples knew exactly what had happened, that they had stolen Christ's body and hidden it, nobody would have faced the persecution any longer than they would have wanted. People generally will not stand this kind of discrimination for a fact that they know is false, whereas people will in fact stand up for ideas that they DO believe in, whether that fact is right or wrong, just like the 9/11 hijackers did, as they believed that it was a worthy cause that they did believe in. Therefore, we can understand that the disciples definitely were under the impression that Jesus rose from the dead, ruling out the fact that they made it up. Additionally, before the resurrection, these men were timid and cowardly, and afterwards they were able to speak and preach in front of crowds of hundreds about something they believed to be true, therefore there must have been something to change that, which would not have come out of faking a resurrection. 3: Sometimes people 'see' things that they want to see, therefore it is reasonable to assume that the disciples were so stricken with grief, that they were hoping to see him and they consequently did. However, the very nature of hallucinations goes completely against this explanation. Usually, hallucinations are mere anomalies, as stated by Psychologist Gary Collins: "Hallucinations are individual occurrences. By their very nature, only one person can see a given hallucination at a time. They certainly aren"t something which can be seen by a group of people." This shows that it wasn't possible for multiple people to experience the same hallucination at the same time, let alone 500 witnesses to Jesus' resurrection. Furthermore, as stated before, hallucinations are sometimes perceived by people that long to see a loved one, however, one man, The Apostle Paul, who was an acknowledged persecutor of Christians, one day simply converted to Christianity after an alleged sighting of Jesus, even though he hated Jesus and certainly wasn't hoping to see him. Even after spreading the word he too was executed by Nero and still proclaimed until the end that he saw Christ. This cannot all be down to hallucination, by the very nature of hallucination, it simply doesn't add up. 4: The last logical explanation for Jesus' resurrection is that he did indeed rise from the dead After this, one can say that after looking at all the other evidence, the case is strong that Jesus did in fact rise from the dead. It may not be direct proof, as you cannot prove it directly either way, however this is why I believe the case to be strong. Make sure that you clearly post your opening argument as opposed to rebutting what I have already said. Thank you for you time and co-operation.