There is no evidence that Jesus Christ rose from the dead ?

Myth # 8: There is no evidence that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
If this statement is true, there is no evidence for the most central Christian belief next to the existence of God. As the Apostle Paul wrote to one of the first Christian churches, “If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless, and so is your faith” (1 Corinthians 15:14).
But a thinking person needs evidence. It is common historical knowledge that Jesus died on a Roman cross and was buried. And the biblical record indicate both that his tomb was found empty shortly afterwards and that a large number of people claimed to have spoken, walked and eaten with him after his death. These claims are startling. They need to be explained. We must decide whether there is a better explanation than an actual resurrection.
Here we will deal with each of the four alternate explanations.
1) We are told (Matthew 27:62-28:4) that the authorities placed a guard at the tomb to prevent the body from being stolen. And when the body was discovered to be missing, it was noted that the grave clothes were still present. They would be strange grave robbers who would fight Roman soldiers to steal a naked corpse, when the only thing of value in the tomb would have been the spice-laden grave clothes.
2) The authorities posted the guard to keep the body buried. We must ask why they would subsequently remove it. When Christianity was first proclaimed, it was seen as a threat to the powers of the day. Because the new teaching was explicitly based upon belief in the resurrection, it would have been a simple matter for the authorities to quash it by producing the body of Jesus. The fact that they did not do so indicates that they did not have the body.
3) Because Roman discipline provided punishments ranging from beatings to death for sleeping on duty, we may assume that the soldiers were alert. That means that the disciples (a discouraged, frightened group of fisherman, tax collectors, and one political activist) would have had to fight the soldiers to get the body – a fight they stood a poor chance of winning. But it was not just the disciples who claimed to have seen Jesus alive again. They would, in other words, have had to convince others to join them in their deception – a deception these others would have no motive for maintaining. Furthermore, 11 out of the original 12 disciples were martyred for their belief that Jesus rose from the dead. Now people might die for what they believe to be true, even if they are wrong. But few will die for a known lie. The fact that the disciples died saying that Jesus was alive, and therefore Lord and God, means that they certainly did not have his body.
4) If no one stole the body, then perhaps Jesus did not quite die on the cross, but was buried alive and revived in the tomb. This may be. However, this position reduces to absurdity when we are asked to believe that, half dead due to blood loss, a beating and no medical attention after his crucifixion, Jesus struggled free from his shroud, pushed aside a stone that three healthy women were not sure they could move (see Mark 16:3), and walked several miles on wounded feet. Then he met his disciples, claimed to be risen, victorious over the power of death, and was so convincing that Thomas called him “My Lord and My God” (John 20:28). After about a month he wandered off and died in solitude. No one ever found his body.
This is a theory of last resort. A supernatural resurrection is certainly not less probable than this, unless we reject it from the outset.
In conclusion, there is considerable weight behind the claim that Jesus rose from the dead. If this is true, it is tremendously significant. We must then ask why it happened. And we must deal with the Christian claim that this is the supreme act of God intervening in history to restore the world to himself.