Did Jesus rise from the dead?

There is evidence that in tbat part of the world at tbat time, it was common amongst religious sects that if somneone was cast out of tbat group tbey would be referred to as "dead." If that same person was later accepted back into the group, he was aaid to be reborn or gave come back from the dead.

Make of that what you will.

If he did, he should have stuck around. Even an old reprobate atheist like me would be hard-pressed to explain away a 2000 year old man.

Seriously, it is very suspicious that he supposedly rose from the dead, but conveniently disappeared afterwards. Also, the Bible describes hundreds of witnesses, but strangely, none of them bothered to write any of this down, other than the Gospel authors who wrote it between 30 and 80 years later. And despite there supposedly being Roman soldiers guarding the tomb, the Roman authorities took no interest in a guy who appeared to evade the death penalty. I can guarantee, if someone executed today came back to life three days later, that would make the news.

"Every time I look at you I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned
Why'd you choose such a backward time in such a strange land?
If you'd come today you could have reached a whole nation
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication"

"Tell me what you think about your friends at the top
Who'd you think besides yourself's the pick of the crop?
Buddha, was he where it's at? Is he where you are?
Could Mohammed move a mountain, or was that just PR?
Did you mean to die like that? Was that a mistake, or
Did you know your messy death would be a record breaker?"

Judas in "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Yes I believe he did

If this is what the Archbishop of Canterbury believes, I question how he GOT to be the Archbishop of Canterbury.

I hope he comes to know Jesus because what he says betrays his belief no matter how many degrees he has in Theology.

Some others do believe same. Some have said that the missing years of Jesus were spent in India and the yogi's taught him which is why he appeared dead.
From my personal perspective it doesn't matter either way the story is not in his physical death but from the message on the cross which was to surrender all.

Nobody rises from the dead

He is wrong.

I don't think enough consideration is given to the possibility that Jesus was an alien robot inhabiting a sophisticated simulation of a human body. Not saying I think it's true, just noting it can't be completely ruled out on available data.

The resurrection is at the very basis of Christianity.

Once fiction is accepted as reality, one cannot add a dose of reality to it.

figuratively, supposedly... but highly unlikely.

No. Jesus did not exist, so he could not rise from the dead. Just archaic superstition.

Speaking of the Archbishop of Canterbury:

"sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal"

Russell Hoban, "Riddley Walker"