No one actually saw Jesus rise from the dead. Someone just said he did.

But that's the point of faith, is believing without proof

Also, he came back to them. In 3 days. 12 people saw it, and the gospel writers recorded it. What is Easter about then?

Well, the gospels are wildly inconsistent on the details of the resurrection of Christ. They don't agree as to who went to the tomb, how many angels were there, and whether or not the angel(s) were inside or outside of the tomb.

Paul said Jesus first appeared to Cephas and another unnamed disciple. Mathew says it was Mary Magdaline and "the other mary" (who ever that is) and then the 11 disciples. Luke says it was a follower named Cleopas and some other guy.

Are Cephas and Cleopas the same guy or 2 different people? If that's teh same dude, why are the names so very different? And who was that 2nd person?

In the New Testiment, Mark doesn't mention anyone seeing Jesus after his death. But in the apocrypha Long Ending, Jesus appears to Mary Magdaline and tells her to tell the disciples.

In Acts, Christ stuck around for 40 days talking to the disciples. None of the other gospels talk about this.

Paul says that Jesus appeared to 500 other people.

In John, Jesus is appearing to disciples in Galilee and Jerusalem. Then stops.

Luke says Jesus appeared, gave the great commision, and ascended into heaven.

Since this is the foundational moment in the Christian religion, you'd think they'd be able to agree on who saw Jesus, in what order, and all of their names. And how to spell them. And how long he stuck around after the resurection.

If you want to believe in the resurrection of Christ, that's fine. No one cares. But don't present it as a historical fact when your own religious text can't agree on what happened, who saw it, and how long it went on.

I think cephas and cleopas are the same guy, but possibly different translations of the name? Who's to say. Yeah the Bible is inconsistent and It often contradicts other stuff, but I think Jesus to be the Messiah, because although the details of his resurrection are skewed, the story is that a bunch of people saw him, 12 or 500, people would've said he came back. Idk, I will give you credit, I didn't even think of the inconsistencies