Did Jesus rise from the dead?

The Archbishop of Canterbury believes not.
Dr Shepard stated
"It is important for Christians to be set free from the idea that the Resurrection was an extraordinary physical event, which restored to life Jesus's original earthly body. The resurrection of Jesus ought not to be seen in physical terms, but as a new spiritual reality"
He also said the the teachings of Christianity are largely symbolic and not to be taken literally.
No doubt he will be thrown out for speaking his mind.
Please don't shoot the messenger

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LeopoldBloom · M

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"