Evidences for the Resurrection
If you are like me, Spring is the most exciting and energizing of the four seasons because it is all about new life, new color and new possibilities for the days ahead. The lonely cold of winter is behind and the sun’s rays have an enveloping warmth about them. There is nothing coincidental in the…
Easter Sunday, April 9, is two weeks away. Lots of people that day will sit in church pews they won’t see again until Christmas. Tons of the men and women they share those pews with will be there because they believe Jesus was resurrected from the grave three days after the crucifixion. Millions more folks…
Lots of folks working on congressional staffs these days came to the Hill with some rather hostile presuppositions about Jesus Christ, the existence of God and the source and nature of morality. Cross-Examined.org’s Dr. Frank Turek proposes in the following 3.44-minute video that four reasons he lays out are persuasive evidence that God really does…
That question in the headline above is a bit of a rhetorical query because it assumes there was a dead body to be found, in which case it would indicate there had been no resurrection, contrary to Jesus’ repeated prediction and to the disciples’ claims in the days following the crucifixion. So the question of…
There are and have been throughout human history figures people have identified and worshipped as deities, but there is one fact that separates Jesus Christ from Buddha, the Hindu pantheon of gods, Zeus, Caesar and indeed all of the rest of them. Jesus was crucified dead, and buried, but three days later, He was alive,…
Dr. Gary Habermas, an historian and philosopher at Liberty University, has devoted his career to studying the evidence for the literal truth of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the arguments presented by the most intelligent skeptics. In the following 6:22 video with “Capturing Christianity” host Cameron Bertuzzi, Habermas concisely describes six reasons for accepting…
In each of the four Gospels, women are the first people to encounter the empty tomb and the resurrected Jesus Christ. That may not seem like a significant fact, but in reality, it is a crucially important detail that points to the credibility of Christianity. Check out the following 1:09 video in which I discuss…
There is no doubt that the single most important claim of Christianity — whether you are a follower, a skeptic or apathetic about it all — is that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead three days after His death on the cross, thereby providing convincing proof of His claim to be God-made-flesh. According to…
Skeptics of Jesus’ Resurrection often point to the variations in the four Gospels regarding who were the first of His followers to arrive at the tomb to discover that it was empty on the first Easter morning. Six different women are mentioned in the four Gospels as being among the first to arrive at the…
There are mountains of evidence — historical, scientific, medical, archeological, literary, logical, philosophical and more — that point to Jesus Christ as God, Creator and Sustainer of the universe. As the Gospel of John puts it in the first five verses of its opening chapter: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was…