Jesus spoke in parables or stories with deeper spiritual meanings. Greco-Roman biographies often used mythologised accounts of their subject material. So there’s good reasons why the story of Jesus would be embellished and allegorised.
I don't see it that way, because the gospel writers made it clear when Jesus was saying one of his parables. They were writing as if it was an accurate, historical account of what Jesus said and did. I'd call taking the Bible and the NT literally as an extreme belief. Jonah getting swallowed by a big fish and surviving for 3 days? Fire coming down from heaven for Elijah's sacrifice? Samson loses his strength when his hair is cut? Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt? Allegories or embellishments?
Then the NT, God speaks from heaven? Jesus turns into a radiant shining light?
Matt. 17:1 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus... 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”... 9 As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
And here we have Jesus, supposedly, saying he will be raised from the dead. And later in the same chapter says...
22 When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.
23 They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.”
Sorry, but it reads like they are telling about the things that actual happened and the things that Jesus told them. Since it wasn't written until way later, and as if any of the writers were really there and heard and saw these things for themselves, and, even if they did, that they remembered everything perfectly? Then I would imagine there was a good chance they embellished the story. But were they smart enough to tell a story that was really an allegory? That when they said that Jesus rose from the dead, they really meant that his followers, the symbolic body of Christ, came to "spiritual" life and started living and teaching the principles that Jesus had taught them? If that's good enough for Baha'is, then fine.
For me, I think that's too complicated. Other religions had miracles and people coming back to life. They had battles between good gods and evil demon gods. They had a hell and a paradise. So, I don't know for sure, but I'd have absolutely no problem believing the gospel writers threw in some of these things from these other religions. But, I don't see how the Christians could have pulled off the hoax of the empty tomb. Do you still believe they could have taken the body and hidden it? Then, not one of them, while being threatened with torture and death, confessing?
But still, let's say they hid the body. Then what? They spread the rumor that they had seen Jesus alive? Then the gospel writers wrote it down and said that there were many eyewitnesses that saw Jesus alive? Then that story is based on a lie. It isn't "allegorical". They are still telling the story as if Jesus really had come back to life.
So we got... It really did happen and they were reporting the things as they actually happened. Jesus did come back to life, but some of the things didn't happen. They were embellishments added in. Or, Jesus died and they hid the body and made up the story about him coming back to life. Or, they wrote the story as if Jesus had come back to life, but it was all an allegorized parable that was not meant to be taken literally. You know, I don't like any of them. That he came back to life... appeared and disappeared. Had a body of flesh and bone, and then floated off into the sky? Doubtful. That he did come back to life, but some of the details were just embellishments? Still coming back to life, if that really happened, is great enough. Who cares if the other things, the earthquakes and people coming out of their graves, didn't really happen. But, even that one thing is totally and completely unbelievable. So was that made up?
So Jesus died. Then what? Were their guards at tomb? Was their even a special tomb? Or did the disciples already have his body? If not, who stole it? How did they do it? How many of the disciples knew? How long after they hid the body did they start making claims that Jesus had come back to life and was seen by Mary and some of the others? So were they in on it? Then when Jesus supposedly appeared to all the disciples, were they in on it? Anyway, were they smart enough to pull off such a hoax and keep a straight face when they told others that Jesus had risen from the dead?
Then the allegorical explanation... For those that don't know, here is
Abdul Baha's Baha'is explanation...
Therefore, we say that the meaning of Christ’s resurrection is as follows: the disciples were troubled and agitated after the martyrdom of Christ. The Reality of Christ, which signifies His teachings, His bounties, His perfections and His spiritual power, was hidden and concealed for two or three days after His martyrdom, and was not resplendent and manifest. No, rather it was lost, for the believers were few in number and were troubled and agitated. The Cause of Christ was like a lifeless body; and when after three days the disciples became assured and steadfast, and began to serve the Cause of Christ, and resolved to spread the divine teachings, putting His counsels into practice, and arising to serve Him, the Reality of Christ became resplendent and His bounty appeared; His religion found life; His teachings and His admonitions became evident and visible. In other words, the Cause of Christ was like a lifeless body until the life and the bounty of the Holy Spirit surrounded it.
Such is the meaning of the resurrection of Christ, and this was a true resurrection. But as the clergy have neither understood the meaning of the Gospels nor comprehended 105 the symbols, therefore, it has been said that religion is in contradiction to science, and science in opposition to religion, as, for example, this subject of the ascension of Christ with an elemental body to the visible heaven is contrary to the science of mathematics. But when the truth of this subject becomes clear, and the symbol is explained, science in no way contradicts it; but, on the contrary, science and the intelligence affirm it.
Actually, I just thought of another possibility. The story about the resurrection was made up. There were lots legends and traditions of Jesus that were being told. Then gospels started to get written. The 4 gospels got canonized. The rest were rejected. So the official story was that Jesus came back to life. The tomb was empty. He appeared to many, then ascended into heaven. But the Jews and the Romans didn't care. I guess even with that, someone would have thought that they better hide the body just in case anyone really cared enough to check. Only problem, to me, it makes both Christianity and the Baha'i Faith false religions. The Baha'i Faith, because they say that Christianity is a true religion, when, if the story was made up, it was not. What a mess. What else can you add Adrian to the Baha'i explanation?