IT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN DENVER

Perhaps, if it had happened in Denver, the explanation might be more plausible. The esteemed, intellectual answer of the agnostic and atheist attackers to Christ's resurrection is a claim that His post-resurrection appearances, that the disciples insisted they experienced, were hallucinations. Had the appearances been in Denver, it could have been proposed that the disciples had been taking advantage of the legalized marijuana. Such a ludicrous explanation-that the disciples didn't actually see the resurrected Lord but were hallucinating and only thought they saw Him-is actually an indication that down deep the skeptics know that the historic evidence for these appearances is sound, solid, and monumental. I have watched debates where the atheist feebly countered the historic record of Christ's resurrection with the answer that the disciples, who said they had seen Jesus after He had been buried, were hallucinating. To offer the hallucination theory isn't just to deny the historical veracity of the resurrection, it is also to deny the nature and characteristics of hallucinations. I could say proponents of the hallucination theory are hallucinating about hallucinations. I do not attempt a full apology, but note just how shallow and easily debunked this hallucination theory is: First, what is a hallucination? It is something, some sound, sight, smell, etc., that seems real but does not exist and is usually caused by drugs or mental illness. Had the disciples been to Denver? No indication of drugs. Mentally ill? Again no evidence. Here's the rub: Hallucinations are an individual thing. Over five hundred people saw the Resurrected Lord on one occasion. How did five hundred folks all have the same hallucination at the same time? What if I told you that five hundred people who visited the pot shops in Denver on the same day all had the same drug induced trip? Jesus put in ten to twelve appearances over a period of forty days to various people at various times in various conditions. Identical hallucinations never have this consistency. Identical hallucinations? There's no such thing. Two other quick notes: Hallucinations are seen as true to those who want them to be true. Some, as Thomas, to whom Jesus appeared, had chosen not to believe Jesus was resurrected. Another thing: If these were hallucinations, why did they all stop immediately after the historical record shows Jesus ascended to heaven? No, it didn't happen in Denver. I don't think it was the disciples that had been to Denver. Such baseless theorizing against the historical record could suggest that the skeptics who originate such drivel have.