Jesus is a FACT

And I will say, that if any person came in to the Cathedral making the claims Jesus made about himselve, I would offer the suggestion that they should submit to psychoanalysis and go to a hospital – unless I could see a twinkle in their eyes – because no mortal man can make these claims. But if with the claims that person said, "Slay me and in three days I'll come out of the tomb and sail off into the blue," and three days later that same person came out of the tomb and sailed off into the blue, I'd take another look at the one making the claims. I don't need anything else as a basis for my faith.

I don't need all the fancy philosophic or trinitarian doctrines. This RESURRECTED ONE, if it happened, is my starting point for a personal and real God.

If I can find on the stage of history the One whose words I can spend my life researching, who was perfect, the center of all authority, the center of the religious universe, and all of these things, including having redeemed me, raised and prepared mansions in eternity, that's all the God I need. I start right there.

Fact 1. That Jesus lived.  

Fact 2. That He was crucified at the instigation of certain Jewishreligious leaders in Jerusalem.

Fact 3. That He was considered dead.

Fact 4. He was buried in a known, accessible tomb.

Fact 5. He was then preached raised.

Fact 6. The Jewish leaders who instigated the crucifixion were more interested in disproving His Resurrection than we would be today.

Fact 7. The Disciples were persecuted because of preaching the claims of His Resurrection.

Fact 8. The tomb was empty.



 

king of kings Every Knee Will Bow, Every Tongue Confess