Luke 24:6-8, 33-34 -- He is Risen

Really???? He's Risen??? This is what makes Christianity, unique.  If Jesus is not risen Christianity is like every other religion.  Most religions believe in loving each other as much as they love themselves but the story of a perfect God/Man who was crucified and then conquered death is unique.

Investigating this a little more we could assume the opposite "He didn't rise from the dead". If this is true:

Where is His body?  The Romans expected someone to steal the body because they actually assigned guards at His tomb.  We know they fell asleep and were paid to keep quiet when the body went missing but why would anyone steal the body and keep it hidden?

Jesus did tell the disciples that He would rise again so maybe they faked stealing the body?  Yet this doesn't make sense.  They were scared after He was crucified; so scared they locked themselves in a room. 3 days later they were speaking openly about Jesus so what changed?  And why would they be so brave and risk being killed (and many of them were killed) if they knew they had the body?

The same thing could be said about the Jews and Romans, if they had the body why didn't they produced the body to stop everyone who believed in Jesus?

We're all given a free choice.  Do we believe Jesus rose from the dead and if we do; what does that mean for our lives today?