Horse 612 - It's Just Not Logical, Is It?

You know who you are, let's just think through this thing logically shall we?

If you assume that Christ hadn't risen from the dead, wouldn't the 12 have formed some sort of sub-executive committee and then planned their next move? Wouldn't you have at least made the story believable if you were going to cover it up?

Think about it you've got Peter, James and John sitting around. Wouldn't it at least have made sense to say that they were waiting around the tomb for the prophecy to be fulfilled? Doesn't it then make sense to have a nice little ego massage and have Christ say "Here I am as promised. What good servants you are for believing what I've said and then waiting for me. I'll tell you what, I'll nip off to heaven for a bit and let you lot set up a massive church for me, despite the problems the Jews & Romans will give you." That would have been more heroic eh?

No, instead you've got the 12 cowering off in some room somewhere; it was the women who first saw the risen Christ. Remember this, in both Jewish and Roman societies, women's evidence wasn't admissable in a court of law. Why then would you have them report it to the rest of them?
This would be positively laughable, who'd honestly take the story seriousy? Then you have to ask the fairly obvious question as to why they'd bother to fight so hard for this lie that they fabricated? Several were whipped to death, a few were killed by the sword, more were crucified (Peter probably upside-down) and Paul was beheaded in the reign of Nero at about AD67. If I was going to come up with a lie, I'd almost certainly reneg on it before I was killed.

If you were going to invent such a story, you'd fix it up to cover yourself in a better light surely? If you got even the Koran, Christianity's biggest detractor it would seem, not only mentioning Jesus but giving him a high place of esteem: that's probably about another billion people you're claiming as liars. The Koran even goes so far as to rubbish the story because it's so dangerous.

Either Christ did what He did (in which case the consequences of such are massive) or else for the last 2000 years a lie has been foisted on us, fought for, had milllions die and is now in part cause of a great deal of wars in the world.

Where's the logic in that?