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Easter celebrates Jesus’ resurrection among the dead. It is the cornerstone of Christianity. Faith is found or falls on this basis.
Theologians say that there are three questions about Easter that Christians should be prepared to answer: Was Jesus God? Was it crucified? Did you get up from the dead? All other details about life, ministry, judgment, judgment and death of Jesus are secondary compared to those three questions.
The theologian and author, Dr. Lee Strobel, said that once spoke with Hugh Hefner, the owner of Playboy magazine and an agnostic, about Jesus. Hey, he asked: “What would happen if the resurrection were true, that Jesus rose from the dead? Hefner said:” Well, will that change everything? “Theen Strobel asked:” Has the resurrection “” “” “” “” investigated “” “” “
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That parallel to culture in general beliefs about organized religion. The researcher George Barna said that today’s greatest spiritual threat is “syncretism.” In other words, the designer’s religion, where people create a different fusion or religions, without leaning before them. While a study at Cornell University found that today’s young people are creating their own personal faith; A form of non-religious spiritual self-work ‘.
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Was Jesus God? Was it crucified? Did you get up from the dead? (Istock)
But those three questions about Easter answers? Yes, says StroBel.
“As an atheist trained in the law and journalism … I spent two years of my life investigating these things,” says Strobel … “and concluding that in the light of the avalanche of historical data for the resurrection of Jesus, he has a Christian Faide Tak.”
Strobel has written a series of books based on investigating Christianity claims. The best-seller, “the case of Christ”, was the first of many. His last book, “seeing the supernatural,” explores the large number of the mysteries of the invisible spiritual kingdom, such as angels and demons, mystical dreams, experiences close to death … and, of course, the resurrection.
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In an episode of my “Lighthouse Faith” podcast, Strobel says that resurrection as a supernatural and divine event, it is up to Jesus to be the Son of God, equal to God, the Word of God made Bottle and God incarnate. Because? Because Jesus said. “The son of man will be delivered to men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”
So …
1. Were you embodied with God of God?
In the stories of the New Testament Gospel of Jesus’ life, it is quite clear that Jesus claimed to be God. The theologian and author Rick Renner, in his book, “Easter: the rest of the story”, highlights some key events of Holy Week that help answer that question. On Thursday after the Last Supper, Jesus and the Apostles go to the Garden of Getsemane. There, hundreds of Roman soldiers descend to the garden to judge Jesus. John’s Gospel reports that Jesus told them: “Who are you looking for?” They replied: “Jesus of Nazareth.” In most English translations, Jesus replies: “I am him.”
Easter Cross (Istockphoto)
But Renner says: “The Greek (real) says:” ego eimi “, who is, I am. It is the same as God identified Moses in chapter three of Exodus.”
In a recent episode of my “Lighthouse Faith” podcast, Renner talked about some of the unknown facts about that scene in the garden, like how many innovative soldiers took a man to judge a man? And who was that mysterious youth wrapped only in a gorge that escaped after being persecuted?
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Renner says that there are other places in the Bible where he is clear that Jesus acts and says things with the son of the authority that only someone who believes was God would say and do it. Jesus tells his followers: “I really tell you … Before Abraham was born, I am!” Once again, the words that God uses to identify himself in the Old Testament and his claims to have existed Patriarch Abraham was born. And this famous fresco, “I am the way, truth and life. No one comes to the father’s exception through me.”
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2. Jesus died on the cross?
Strobel says that despite Dan Brown’s very popular fiction, “the Da Vinci Code”, and other conspiracy theorists who postulate that Jesus did not do it on the cross and somehow survived … The evidence shows the opposite.
Strobel says: “We not only have accounts in the New Testament, we also have five ancient sources outside the Bible that talk about its execution. In fact, no less than a source than the journal of the American Medical Association, which is a secular, scientific medical magazine and revised by peers, the reviewed medical magazine, brought an investigation of the death of Jesus and clearly said the weight of the weight and the medical history indicated that Jesus was before Jesus was before Jesus before Jesus was before Jesus before Jesus was before Jesus before Jesus was before Jesus before Jesus was before Jesus was before Jesus was before Jesus was before Jesus was before the neighbor. neighbor”.
3. Did Jesus get out of the dead?
Strobel says that one of the key issues about resurrection is that the accounts are quite early in the historical timeline. The skeptics say that the resurrection was a legend invented by the followers of Jesus. But legends take between 100 and 200 years to develop.
The author Lee StroBel says that one of the key issues about the resurrection is that the accounts are quite early in the historical timeline. (Istock)
Strobel says: “We have a report from the resurrection of Jesus Christ, including eyewitnesses with name and groups of eyewitnesses, including 500 while seeing him alive, which has left the scholars a Newhin months of Jesus of Decur
In comparison, the first two biographies of Alexander the Great were written 400 years after his life … and they are generally consulted, says StroBel. “So here we have something that makes the scene virtual.”
And that annoying empty tomb is a head scratch. Did his disciples stole his body and perpetuate a lie about his resurrect from the dead? The fact, says StroBel, that everyone admits that the tomb was empty, corroborates the accounts of eyewitnesses.
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Strobel says: “We have no less than nine old sources inside and outside the New Testament confirming and corroborating the conviction of the disciples who found the risen Jesus. That is an avalanche of historical data.”
So what? What difference does if the resurrection is true?
The former Cold Case Murder detective J. Warner Wallace says that it makes a difference in the world. Wallace, an ancient atheist, used his forensic skills to try to discredit Christianity and left a firm believer. He saw in the four stories of the Gospel of the Resurrection, not a series of discrepancies, but in four other eye witness accounts from the same event. If the four writers had said exactly the same, as in any murder investigation, Wallace says it would have known that there was a cover -up.
Warner says: “The evidence went through my philosophical naturalism, and the gospels passed all the tests we used to evaluate the accounts of eyewitness.”
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But there is one more mountain to climb. Believing that Jesus is God, who died on a cross and that he resurrected supernaturally … can be all intellectual facts. But to bow and worship Jesus as his Lord and Savior because the cross, defeated death and joined the eternal abyss between God and humanity … that takes much more … that makes a jump of faith.
Happy Easter!
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