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Rejected → Slain → Raised
There are events in the life of Jesus that even the most hostile, non-religious historians almost universally acknowledge. Not because they like the conclusion; because the data is stubborn. These are the minimal facts. And they are called minimal because they are the floor, not the ceiling.
The four Gospels were not written by a committee coordinating their stories. They contain what scholars call “undesigned coincidences”; small details in one account that accidentally explain a mystery in another. These are the marks of independent witnesses describing the same three-dimensional event from different angles.
Mathematician David Robert Grimes calculated that a conspiracy involving more than a few hundred people collapses within years. The early Christian account involved hundreds of public witnesses, many of whom were tortured and executed. No one recanted. The conspiracy theory requires more faith than the resurrection.