One chapter is on the Resurrection of Jesus. This is an appropriate topic for a Blog post considering the fact that Easter is coming up this Sunday. According to the Christian religion, the whole of my faith is based upon the resurrection. In other woods, If Jesus did not raise from the dead, I would be the biggest idiot in the world. So what we believe about the resurrection of Jesus Christ changes EVERYTHING about who we are and how we live. I am a Christian because Jesus died for me and rose again from the dead.
Here is a quote from the book. I wonder how you would respond:
"One ancient historian scholar tells us at great length that, while these ancient cultures did not hold, as modern people do, that miracles in general cannot happen, resurrection was equally implausible and unimaginable to them as it is for most people today. [It did not fit into their categories of belief or theology.] If you are a modern person, you have a worldview that insists that a bodily resurrection of a truly dead man, with his fatal wounds still visible, is simply impossible. Now imagine what kind of evidence you would need to knock down your doubts, to shatter your presumptions regarding this event. What kind of evidence would you need in order to believe that jesus Christ was the Son of God, resurrected from the dead? Nowadays we are taught to think of faith as something that relates inversely to logic and evidence--as you get more facts and certainty, your need for faith goes down. But that's not what Christians mean by faith. Faith doesn't mean hoping in what isn't true; it means certainty about what you can't see. And so compelling evidence, evidence that engages rationality, is one of the greatest boosts to Christian faith."
Noah, what is your personal belief about the resurrection of Jesus Christ?
