Absence of Evidence..............

I recently posted on the issue.To sum up, 1 Corinthians chapter 15 gives a list of "appearances" with no real detail.If the author of Mark wrote about these appearances, it did not survive.The accounts in Mathew, Luke and John contradict each other enough that none of them can be trusted.It appears that by the time the Gospels were written the story was already confused.

And my point is that to say that there were empirical observations of the risen Jesus is to beg the question. We don't know what the basis for the accounts that we have really was. Maybe it was something that would qualify as empirical evidence - but maybe it wasn't.