I just wrote this in another thread in answer to Mike T, who claims that there is no evidence of the Resurrection.
In fact there is indeed incontrovertible evidence for the resurrection:
What do you know of the most recent studies of shroud of Turin and the Sudarium of Oviedo? If your knowledge dates from 1988 where Faucian "scientists" faked a Carbon 14 dating of a medieval border of the shroud and published a date from the Middle Ages, that has been proven an egregious fake. Most recent dating using 21st century technology dates the shroud to the first century.
In fact, what you actually have is photographic evidence of a Jew who was crucified in the first century being raised from the dead. A single artifact destroys your bluster, if you have a shred of interest and a willing and honest mind.
We have:
- The Shroud--made from quality 1st century linen and a 1st century weave.
- The pollen dates the shroud to the 1st century, and includes flora that has since gone extinct.
- The image on the shroud is of a crucified Jewish man, 5'11" tall, whose body was pummeled with a Roman flagellum, and whose had was crowned, not with a wreath of thorns, but with a full cap of thorns of a species identifiable and indigenous to Jerusalem and vicinity.
- The blood stains saturate the fabric, and the blood type is AB+, a very rare type, but for the Jews of Judea.
- The image is not pigment, but the effect of extremely intense UV light pulses that left an image of a person in motion, as he awakens. (There are multiple images of the coins on the eyes as the body moves.)
- The image is found ONLY on the surface of the linen in the topmost fibers. It could be scraped off with ease.
- On the image, the coins on the eyes, holding the cadaver's eyes closed, are 1st century "widow's mites" identifiable by any nusmismatist familiar with the coinage of Pontius Pilate's day.
- On the image, a phylactery is identifiable on his right arm.
- The person depicted is wearing a pendant with writing that is clearly written in 1st century Aramaic/Hebraic script. The actual inscription is being debated...
- The Sudarium of Oviedo is purported to be the head cloth of which John spoke in his eyewitness account of the first run to the tomb, that was found folded beside the "linen strips."
- The history of the Sudarium dates back to the seventh century, and the DNA provides the same traces back to Jerusalem.
- The Sudarium has been dated to the first century.
- The Sudarium is saturated with blood of the same type as that on the shroud.
- There is no image on the Sudarium, but the blood stains perfectly match the blood stains at the head of the shroud, though there is no evidence that the paths of the two cloths have ever crossed since the day Jesus rose from the dead.
If you have said there is no evidence, you are and have always been wrong. The evidence is there for anyone who cares about his own destiny, and the choice he has to make. Jesus, as it turns out, took the world's first selfie for your sake and for your enjoyment.