Chapter 4 · The empty tomb

Everything rides on this.

Christianity doesn't say “be nice and you'll feel better.” It stakes everything on one event in history, open to investigation like any other: Jesus died, was buried, and three days later walked out of his grave. Paul, one of the first Christian writers, put it bluntly:

1 Corinthians 15:17The Bible (NIV)

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

A large round stone slab standing in a carved channel beside the low, square doorway of a rock-cut tomb. — The rolling stone at a rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem long called “Herod's family tomb,” from the first century BC. Photographed in 1964.Photo: Willem van de Poll · CC0

Tap the stone to roll it away.

Check it yourself:Read 1 Corinthians 15

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