Frank Morrison Who Moved The Stone Analysis

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Morison wants to unravel the tangled skein of passions, prejudices, and political intrigues by focusing on the accusation brought on Jesus. Morrison proves that Jesus was falsely accused of the crime that was charged against him. He goes into detail about three reasons for trial in a hebrew culture and one is a vain testimony, two is a standing testimony, and the final one an adequate testimony. None of these testimony were proven in Jesus’s trial and the only reason why he was executed was because Pilot wanted to pleases the people and that is what they want. It is quite intriguing about Jesus’s death as he died with the people on the bottom of the social scale but Jesus was a king, Jesus wanted to die with the socially rejected as they will …show more content…

In the Apostles Creed he profess “And on the third day he rose again.” As a Catholic we say that every Sunday because it is what we believe in and it his what Morrison believes in now. Jesus did truly rise again and Who Moved the Stone really proves that and shows the accounts of a Man who converted to being Christian. Morrison’s account on the body being removed shows that there are skeptics but they are wrong. The main hypothesis is that the women were mistaken about actually seeing Jesus. There are six hypotheses that have been created to disprove that Jesus rose from the dead. Four of them assume the vacancy of the tomb as a historic fact, while the others take the extreme side of the story. The first is, Joseph of Arimathea secretly moved the body and the second is that the body was removed by the Roman Power. The third is that the body was removed by the Jewish authorities to prevent the possible veneration of the tomb. Fourth is Jesus’s life was not really extinct and the fifth is the woman mistook the grave in the uncertain light. The last hypothesis is that the grave was not visited at all. After Morrison list these hypotheses he goes into greater depth to disprove that these hypotheses can not be true and list the

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