The site promotes Mike’s book ‘Jesus! What was that?’ which gives a spectacular new view of Jesus’ resurrection. It suggests that there’s a ‘natural’ explanation.

The Bible tells us that after Jesus was crucified, he rose from the dead and appeared again to his disciples, before ascending into heaven. This is the bedrock of Christianity, believed by millions across the world. But equally there are millions who say that it couldn’t have happened, simply because things like returning from the dead don’t happen, and couldn’t have happened then. But this leaves two problems for the sceptics to answer. Who took Jesus’ body, and what happened to it?

Mike reckons that the body was taken from the tomb by no less a person than Judas Iscariot. Yes, the man who had previously betrayed Jesus to the authorities for the famous thirty pieces of silver. And, says Mike, there’s even a chance that Jesus’ bones might be discovered.

Says Mike ‘I’ve gone back to the very earliest record- Mark’s Gospel, and I’m fascinated by those last few verses. Two days after Jesus’ crucifixion, and his burial by a sympathiser named Joseph of Arimathaea, women of Jesus’ party came to the tomb. The body had gone- but inside the tomb was a young man, who tried to give them a message to pass on to the disciples- Jesus was alive again, and had gone to his home district of Galilee, where they should meet him. The women fled in terror.  The questions are: who was the young man? An angel, as Christians have believed, or a human being who knew what had happened to Jesus’ body? If he’s human, who could he have been? And what was he trying to tell the women- maybe something that they misunderstood? If so, what? I’ve given reasons, in the book, for thinking that the young man was an employee of Joseph, tasked to remove Jesus’ body; also that the two colluded with Judas Iscariot. As for where Jesus body might be now- there are clues. Come with me along the detective trail- it’s worth following!’

The book is easy to read. It is lightly written- with humour too. You don’t need to be a scholar to understand it. Mike says ‘I want to give people something to discuss- and to make the whole thing interesting and actually fun to read. As it should be- after all, it has all the ingredients of a detective story- there are  clues and suspects, and the culprit identified.’

Mike also has a fascinating recorded interview on You Tube, at www.youtube.com/mikesinterview