After Jesus was crucified and taken down from the cross, his corpse was laid to rest somewhere (tomb or not), and wherever that location happened to be, Jesus's body was shortly after regarded as missing from that location.
This page explores these 5 arguments:
Jesus's body going missing is evidence that Jesus rose from the dead because there is no good alternative explanation for the fact. Specifically, no easy naturalistic explanation presents itself; all naturalistic explanations are arguably more improbable than God's miraculously choosing to raise Jesus from the dead (as long as God exists and plausiby might choose to raise Jesus).
But so what if it went missing? Plausibly…
Shortly after Jesus’s crucifixion, a variety of different persons/groups began to testify that Jesus appeared to them alive from the dead.
This page covers these 7 examples:
This is relevant if there are no plausible alternative explanations for their experience. To the degree that their interpretation of their experience has the most power to explain their experience (over rival explanations), to a corresponding degree it is evidence for Jesus’s actually appearing to them alive from the dead, and therefore his resurrection.1
But so what? Plausibly…
And keep in mind…
Humans who die always naturally stay dead.
See this page to analyze 2 arguments:
The irreversibility of death is relevant because Jesus is a human who died. So, “A consistent modern view must say farewell to the resurrection of Jesus as a historical event.”3
But so what? Plausibly,…
It is false that Jesus was expected by crucifixion on a Roman cross.
This page analyzes 3 arguments, namely:
If Jesus did not die on the cross, then we can conclude he was not dead when people thought he was, and therefore Jesus could not at that time have risen from the dead; he simply had not died yet.
But no, see this page to analyze these objections:
But so what?
Rather than being raised by God, Jesus was in fact raised by extraterrestrials (for whatever reason). This is relevant to our bigger question because, if aliens raised Jesus, then he rose but his resurrection was natural; i.e. his resurrection was not a supernatural miracle wrought by God.
But no, see this page for 5 reasons to disagree:
Jesus never actually walked the earth as a real historical figure, not even the bare minimum idea of a Jewish rabbi that lead to Christianity. The entire person was an invented fiction.
This page analyzes 3 arguments, namely:
If Jesus did not even exist, then we can be reasonably certain that God did not raise him (as a non-existent person) from the dead!
But no, consider 5 reasons to think Jesus did exist:
Theistic explanations are illegitimate; real potential explanations cannot feature God.
This page analyzes 8 arguments.
This is relevant because if miracles are not genuine historical explanations, then no miracle can be the solution to explaining this or that data. In other words, there can be no evidence for the resurrection, and so it would seem to be an unjustifiable belief.
But no, God can theoretically feature in a real potential explanation…