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At least Chuck Colson thinks so as told in Hugh Hewitt’s book Searching for God in America (where Mr. Hewitt also interviews Elder Neal A. Maxwell):
Here we were, the twelve most powerful men in the world. We were surrounding the President of the United States. And we couldn’t keep a lie for three weeks.
The truth of the Gospel depends upon the fact that Jesus Christ was bodily raised from the dead. How do we know that? We have the eyewitness testimony of five hundred people, according to the Apostle Paul. We have eleven apostles who were with Him and who saw Him raised from the dead. There was Thomas, who put his finger in the wound because he doubted Jesus. And all of the apostles were with Jesus after he was bodily resurrected from the tomb. Now, if He was bodily resurrected, that is the most convincing evidence of the divinity of Jesus Christ. And there’s the testimony of the apostles for forty years. And they had no power like we did in Watergate. They were persecuted. They were crucified upside down. All but one died a martyr’s death. They were stoned, beaten, and not once did they deny that they had seen Christ risen from the dead.
I believe that men will give their lives for something they believe to be true. They will never give their lives for something they know to be false. If Christ hadn’t risen, the Apostle Peter would have been just like John Dean. He would have gone and turned state’s evidence to save his own skin. Not one of them denied the resurrection of Christ, which to me means that they had seen the risen Christ, God in the flesh. Otherwise they would have saved their own skins, just like we did in Watergate.
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