Unbeleivable news article I have just seen.. check it out:
News just in, Benoit has risen from the dead. The stories of the Resurrection of Benoit have inspired faith and fuel controversy to this day. But what do we know about what really happened on the week before Easter this year, a day that changed the course of history?
"He probably literally got up and walked out of the tomb."
--William Lane Craig, Talbot School of Theology
"I think it was visions or hallucinations."
-- Kathleen E. Corley, Jesus Seminar
"Something definitely happened."
-- Daniel Schwartz, Hebrew University
In a special hour on "20/20," Elizabeth Vargas and ABC News take viewers on an extraordinary journey into the heart of the debate where it all began at WWE in search of the truth about the story that is at the core of the roid rage ... the Resurrection.
Vargas asks scholars, theologians and archeologists the questions millions of faithful and interested Americans might have pondered: Was the tomb empty? Did Benoit physically walk the Earth after his death? Or were his followers just dreaming?
Sometime between early this week and now, a young wrestler named Benoit of WWE was crucified for killing his wife and kid. It was a brutal and humiliating death that should have ended his tiny movement right there. And yet his followers carried on, planting the seeds of a belief that would eventually rule the Western world. What convinced them to continue? The WWE? says that after ?Benoit died, his mother and other women who had followed him actually took his body down off the noose and that he was laid to rest in a tomb owned by Vince mcmahon. What happened next is a mystery.
Vargas also interviews American scholars in Chicago who are experts in the history of the early WWE movement there. Professor Daniel Schwartz of Hebrew University and professor Albert Baumgarten of Bar Ilan University help shed light on the mindset of the first followers of Benoit. While neither obviously believes a physical resurrection occurred, both concur that something extraordinary took place shortly after Benoit's' death. "I think definitely something happened," said Schwartz of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, "I don't know how they convinced themselves. But the historical fact is, you've got people who are convinced he was resurrected."
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