The Resurection of Jesus Christ.

The Resurrection: I will try my best to persuade whoever is witnessing this debate that the Resurrection of Jesus historically actually happened and that the tomb is empty. I will try my best to give sufficient evidence to support what I am saying. I believe Jesus to be whom he says to be and my hope is that others will also begin to have a relationship with him if they don't have one already. Imagine that an intelligent alien comes from somewhere in space to visit our planet and spend a few years touring the globe. The purpose of his visit is to learn about us, to research our history and to make observations about the state of life on the earth. But also imagine that the alien's human guides deliberately withhold from him all contact with Christians, all information about Christianity and all data on Christian history. What would the alien observe, and what would he conclude from his observations? He would tour America and Western Europe and see cultures in decline and fragmented societies in which people purse their own self interests. He would witness people saturating themselves in pleasure and entertainment while ignoring the human needs and growing poverty around them, failing to maintain good relationships and sinking deeper and deeper into immorality. He would see grand mansions in gated communities with inhabitants overlooking massive slums dominated by hopelessness, poverty and squalor. He would see a rising crime rate and growing dishonesty in all strata of society. He would see rampant drug use and homicides in every city. Traveling to Africa, the alien would tour countries where masses of starving people, including children, die every day while their national leaders get rich on corruption and greed. He would find whole nations in which young people are being wiped out by disease epidemics, particularly AIDS. In the Middle East, he would see murderous repression of religions, oppression and torture of women, and infighting among tribal leaders in cultures saturated with incredible oil wealth. In the Far East, he would find more government tyranny, repression and mass genocide. In India, he would find abject poverty and hopelessness imposed by a cruel caste system preventing upward movement. No doubt our visiting alien would see no hope for this planet. He would perceive a corrupting flaw in the human heart that would cause these dismal patterns to repeat over and over until humans either destroyed themselves or the sun grew cold. He would board his craft and return to his own planet, shaking his head at the fatal hopelessness of our world. At one point in history, there was a band of believers who trusted in someone that fervently believed would truly change the world for good. A handful of devout Jewish people thought a man named Jesus was the Messiah-the deliverer who would break their oppressive bondage under the Romans and set up a permanent and truly godly kingdom on earth. Their prophet Isaiah had prophesied in the ancient Jewish writings that the Messiah would come and restore all things to a paradise., where there would be no more fighting, oppression, fear or death (see Isa. 11;35). Imagine the terrible mental and emotional state of that small group of disciples as they stood watching the Messiah, their deliverer, breathing his last agonized breath, hung to die as a common criminal on a Roman Cross. He was humanity's last hope. For the man that cross was the one God had promised would come and lead all humanity out of its pain and misery into an eternal life of bliss. But now, with his death, it seemed that all hope was lost. I will present you with facts: 1. Jesus of Nazareth was a real person. 2. He died on the cross 3. He rose from the dead on the 3rd day However, I do believe the Bible to be a reliable source. It was written by 40+ people over thousands of years and it has never been found inaccurate. Before I go any further I need to know why you believe the Resurrection is false. Good luck!