MATTHEW 28:5-6 But the angel answered and said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. 6 "He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Jesus Christ's resurrection is either the supreme fact in history or a gigantic hoax. If Christ's resurrection is true -- we ignore its implications at our own peril. If not, then Christianity is the biggest fraud in the history of the world. many acknowledge that Jesus was merely a great teacher. C. S. Lewis, a former atheist wrote:
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Christ's resurrection forces the question of Christianity's validity from being merely a philosophical issue to being a historical one. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a fact verifiable from history. No one can challenge Christ's resurrection -- if they take an honest look at the evidence. Only those who never study the evidence -- or who refuse to listen to its testimony -- could deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Many learned men have tried to disprove Christ's resurrection -- only to become believers instead! Some people refuse to examine the evidence, because they do not want to believe in Jesus Christ and submit to Him as Lord. The facts remain. Confucius' tomb, Buddha's tomb, Mohammed's tomb, and Lenin's tomb are all occupied. But Jesus Christ's tomb is EMPTY!
REVELATION 1:18 NKJ 18 "I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death."
Dear God, I believe that Jesus Christ rose from death and conquered sin in my life! Amen!
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