experienced a spiritual resurrection only. The claim was that though his body decomposed, he still could have been raised. This claim proved very naive, since the core of the Christian message is that Jesus rose bodily on the third day and ascended to heaven forty days later. Believing Christians saw this idea as an insult to the faith. Indeed, the affront to Christianity was one of the reasons I had warned the people at the Discovery Channel that they had no idea what they were in for in terms of