Lee Strobel: 4 Compelling Reasons to Believe the Resurrection Actually Happened

Lee Strobel: 4 Compelling Reasons to Believe the Resurrection Actually Happened

Even as an atheist, I understood one thing about Christianity: it rises or falls on the resurrection of Jesus. After all, anyone can claim to be divine, as Jesus did directly and indirectly. Yet if Jesus predicted he would die and rise again three days later – and then did it – that would be pretty good evidence he was telling the truth about his identity. In other words, Easter is the ballgame. As a law-trained journalist at the Chicago Tribune…

It is the great mystery of Easter. Was the tomb from which Jesus rose on the third day really empty? For some the whole faith depends on it, others like the apostle Paul is not worthy of mention.

Apologist: proclaiming the Resurrection needs to be consistent • Biblical Recorder

DALLAS (BP) — Jeremiah Johnston says the seminal event in Christianity’s history should be raised up more often. “The Resurrection of Jesus is tragically under-taught, under-preached, and as a result, under-appreciated and under-applied by the vast majority of Jesus followers and pastors today,” Johnston, associate pastor of apologetics and cultural engagement at Prestonwood Baptist Church, [...]Read More...

At Easter, when Christians celebrate the "true" resurrection of Jesus from the dead, there have been media reports for some time now that address the verifiability of Jesus' existence. Doubts are being cast over whether the preacher Jesus of Nazareth actually existed, or at least that his resurrection from the dead on Easter Sunday was more of a pipe dream of his followers. What can a Christian say to such doubters? A commentary.

You can be confident the resurrection of Jesus Christ really ...

The historical reliability of the empty tomb In Jesus The Jew: A Historian’s Reading Of The Gospels, Bible scholar and sceptic Géza Vermes writes, “When every argument has been considered and weighed, the only conclusion acceptable to the historian must be… that the women who set out to pay their last respects to Jesus found to their consternation, not a body, but an empty tomb.” Let us look at three pieces of evidence for the empty tomb: ● The …