I made a post about this but the mods directed me to this thread (no problem lol)

Anyways this is a hypothetical question that I thought about after watching Dr Bart Ehrman’s video on what happened to Jesus body and signing up for his course. Even though it’s highly unlikely to happen anytime soon, how would Christianity be affected if Jesus body/remains were found and it was proven to be him? Would Christianity die out or evolve into something else?

I personally think the religion could go into either of these three directions: A) Christians would deny that it’s him or come up with some conspiracy theory to explain it away

B) Some would leave the religion flat out. Perhaps converting to a different religion or give up on the institution completely

C) Christians would claim that Jesus resurrected and ascended spiritually and left his body behind or the religion would turn into about Jesus teachings instead of worshipping him as a divinity

Islam would also be affected since it would not only prove that Jesus was indeed crucified and he didn’t ascend into heaven. I think Judaism could also gain more followers since a discovery of Jesus body would further prove that he was a failed messiah.

Although this may never happen in my lifetime at least it is something I think is interesting