First Peter 3:15

Absolute Truth in a Moral Relativistic World

If someone tells you there is no such thing as truth, he is asking you not to believe him so don’t! In our confused post-modern world, people are wondering where can they find truth or goodness. Where is the ultimate ground for morality? Whose morality do we obey? We must have a good, solid ground for morality. Is there something built into the fabric of this world that says this is the high moral ground? What is the best explanation of this? There is a God who creates, a God who redeems, and a God who is with us now. God, a moral lawgiver, makes the most sense. What do you find to be most reasonable?

Relativist: one who believes that truth is relative rather than absolute. “There are no right or wrong beliefs. All beliefs are true and equally valid. All truth claims are relative.”

You need to stand in front of the mirror each morning and declare “I am not mentally delusional! What I believe is founded in truth and rest securely in, and stands solidly on, proven absolute truth.”

It is when people no longer believe in absolute truth that we will no longer have a Church of Christ.

On the campus of many secular universities, you will find the quote written “You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

The definition of insanity is, in actuality: “making decisions that are not based on truth.”

Truth is found and proven by archaeological, cosmological, biological, and historical evidence. If you cannot research and investigate the validity of a truth claim, then there is absolutely no truth to it. Are you aware that love devoid of truth is not love at all, but a lie? Much like a pedophile would pretend to love a child, but the truth is something much darker and more sinister.

Sorry to say, “you cannot save someone from walking off a cliff by telling them that you love them. You must tell them the truth.” What if you telling someone the truth and risking offending them is the only way you could save their life? It would be insensitive and borderline evil to not tell them. How many of you, when walking by a swimming pool, and seeing a child drowning, would not jump in to save the kid? Well, I have to tell you that there are many people you are around every day that are drowning on our watch because they are making decisions and following belief systems that are not founded in or backed up by truth.

The relativist would have you believe that all interpretations of God are equally valid and equally true, and all lead to heaven when you die. The people known as the Amalekites had a stone statue of the demon Moloch whom they worshipped. The statue had two outstretched arms that the Amalekites heated with fire to red molten hot for the purpose of laying live babies in the demon's fiery arms as a sacrifice to their demon god. The moral relativist says, “The Amalekites worship the same God as Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr.”

God is omniscient- “All knowing.” Truth can only be found in Him. If someone claims to believe in God, then that person also believes in absolute truth. It is a fact that is non-negotiable.

In the field of philosophical science, there is a law known as ‘the law of non-contradiction’ which states “two entirely opposite or contradictory truth claims both cannot be true. One is true, with the other being false. Or both are false.”

Philosophical apologist Nabeel Qureshi states, “in sharing the love of God with people, you must first find out if the person values truth or not.” If a person cares little about truth then they welcome in the possibility of being led into (having their hearts deceived), by every kind of dark evil or depravity.

In Syria recently, ISIS militants captured a single mom, separated her from her baby, and tortured and starved her for three days. At the end of the three days, the terrorists brought the hungry woman a plate of food. After she ate the food, they told her that it was her own baby she ate. If you don't believe in absolute truth that you can investigate and try and prove, if you think all morals are relative and that there is not absolutely right or absolutely wrong, then you open the door to being able to rationalize and fathom this kind of evil.

Atheist Robert Pirsig says, “When one person suffers from delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion period.” Doesn't he mean, “When many people suffer from delusion, we call it relativism?”

Augustine said, “People love truth when it enlightens them, but they hate it when it convicts them.” absolute truth derives from God alone. Truth is incendiary: it calls you to action and shapes your personality and moral character. Truth spoken to your heart will do one of two different things: you will either decide to align your life with it and conform your life to it or you can rebel against it. That is a choice that every human ever born will have to make.

It was Jesus who said in John 8:32 “you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” In John 14:6 He states, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.” Later, when the Lord was being questioned by the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate ventured to say, “what is truth?” To which Jesus answered, “Those that are on the side of truth follow me.” Biological evolutionist Richard Dawkins says, “In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe should have precisely the properties we should expect if there is at the bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference...DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is and we dance to its music.”

So according to Dawkins, Hitler was just dancing with his DNA, he was not doing anything evil, and he simply couldn't help it? I do not want to live in Dawkins's world where there is no right or wrong because that is exactly what he is saying. No moral lawgiver, no moral law and you pay your nickel and take your chances... is that what is at the heart of moral relativism? Are they telling us that there is no difference from Adolf Hitler and Mother Teresa? Hitler unluckily received a bad set of chemicals that made him hate and kill people while Mother Teresa received chemicals that caused her to love and to help people.

“Come truth, although in swaddling-clouts, I find informs the judgement, rectifies the mind, pleases the understanding, makes the will submit; the memory of it does fill.” -John Bunyan

The Romans could defeat any army in the world, but they could not defeat the truth. Opposition can never hurt truth; it can only help to purify it and make it stronger. -Rick Joyner

In the heart of every human being there is a longing for justice. Justice is 100% dependent upon absolute truth. Truth corresponds to the facts; truth corresponds to reality, and anything that does not correspond to reality is false.

When you hear the first side of an argument, it can seem very true until you hear the other side. No one can really discern what is true and what is false until they have weighed both adverse opinions. So someone who only chooses to recognize the side of the argument that appeals to their moral whims, completely ignoring and even suppressing all facts and evidence to the contrary, is essentially a false propagandist.

The evolutionist teaches that all of our moral beliefs have been selected for “survival value,” not truth. If so, how does this secular humanist’s belief explain someone giving his or her life, or risking his or her life for someone else?

In the words of comedian Andy Rooney, “To ignore the facts does not change the facts.”

Truth is inclusive as it applies to every human ever born. Truth is the bully that the moral relativist only pretends to like. In the discussion of ethics, relativism is an impossible position to hold.

R. C. Sproul says, “If a truth’s contrary can also be true, no truth about anything can possibly be known.” Yes, the basis of all logic is “the law of non-contradiction.” if opposites can both be true then there is no difference between true and false.

A fool averts his eyes from truth to avoid the sting of conscience, but evil stares lovingly and longingly at falsehood and lunges towards it with eyes wide open. In comparison, a wise person seeks out truth and acts in accordance with what he finds- awakening the desire to attach to what is good and true. -David Lieberman

Someone said the other day that “one being able to harbor two entirely contradictory thoughts is a sign of greatness…” I think we have proven it here to be a sign of lunacy.

After 28 years as a believer, the moral law still stands out for me as the strongest signpost to God. More than that, it points to a God who cares about human beings, and a God who is infinitely good and holy. -Scientist Francis Collins (head of the famous genome project)

In fact, the leading atheistic philosophers (at least the ones who are honest) all admit: “one can't discuss the subject of morals without admitting a moral lawgiver of where the foundation of all morality originated.”

C. S. Lewis describes it as this: “How can someone know what a crooked line is without first knowing what the straight line was to begin with?” There had to be a source of ultimate good to begin with!

Famed Christian apologist Mr. Lewis goes on to state, “The moment that you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another; You are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard more than the other. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some real morality, admitting that there is really such a thing as right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real right than others. This rule of right and wrong, or law of human nature, or whatever you call it, must somehow or other be a real thing. A thing that's really there, not made up by us. There is something beyond the ordinary facts of men's behavior and yet quite definitely real- a real law, which none of us made, but which we find pressing on us.”

The Canaanites used to ritually sacrifice newborn babies by burning them alive. There is evidence that they would tie the legs of women together that were in labor, leaving her tied like that until she died! When they would conquer their enemies in battle, they would celebrate by smashing the heads of infants on rocks. If one does not acknowledge a moral lawgiver, then anything becomes permissible. It is a horrifying thing when we lose our sense of shame. I find that I do not exist on my own, that I am under a law, that somebody or something wants me to behave in a certain way. I should expect to find that there was a sender of letters: a power behind the facts, a director, a guide.

It is after you've realized that there is a real moral law, and a power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that power- it's after all that that Christianity begins to talk. When you know you are sick, you will listen to the doctor. When you have realized that our position is desperate, you will begin to understand what the Christians are talking about. All I am doing is to get people to face the facts and to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer.

Remember Jesus’s words in John 8:32? What if the standards of God (moral lawgiver) are so far above imperfect human standards that “we are in dire need of being set free…” Truth always brings healing and leads us on a genuine path to recovery and peace.

Ultimately, I believe it has been proven here that you do not have an option. If you do not believe in and endeavor to seek out and abide in absolute truth, you will not be with our loving God who is an infinitely good and just moral lawgiver when you die.

I must close with a teacher I absolutely love: OS Guinness- “A truth well-lived outweighs both a truth well-stated and a truth well-argued. A truth well-stated is excellent, but a truth well-lived is priceless...” Live and stand for truth my friends because in the end, it is all that any of us have.

Hasn’t Science Disproven the Bible?

Do you remember what we discussed about truth and false propaganda? How “one cannot know truth without honestly researching both sides of the argument” ... Not only has science not disproven one single thing in the Bible; but more and more-every single year it seems: the sciences of archaeology, biology, and historical records and findings are proving just how real and factual the Bible is.

The scrolls contain parts of each book in our Bible;(saving Ezra) and “The great Isaiah scroll”: a complete copy of the book of Isaiah that is “word-for-word": what you have in your Bible (Only it is dated 1,400 years older than any known manuscript, close to 300 years before Christ).

There are 3,000 prophecies in the Bible, most of which have already come true; save Jesus’ 2nd coming. There are 300 prophecies of Jesus: now, with the discovery of the dead sea scrolls and other archaeological discoveries: no human being can say that these prophecies were not written thousands of years before they came true: it now scientifically proven that they are liars and false propagandists... not only that:  the evidence of those prophecies prove that the Bible was written by God.

“Religion without science is blind; science without religion is lame.”-Albert Einstein   Jewish archaeologist Dr. Nelson Glueck says: “no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference”. Do you know that the Bible is the only proven-accurate history book of the Middle East? Close to 4 U.S. states are working to bring the Bible back into schools as a history book.

History Channel’s “Mysteries of the Bible” makes clear: anyone says that the Exodus didn’t happen (The Red Sea parting, all the plagues and even the first-born dying) they lose all credibility as a historian. They have Egyptian hieroglyphics (Steles) fully documenting the parting of the sea and all that is written in the Bible concerning the Exodus from Egypt... Satellite imaging from space can verify where the sea parted, and the Hebrews crossed... deep sea divers were pulling Pharaoh's chariots and all sorts of Egyptian weapons of war from that time from the bottom of the Red Sea.

In 1906, German archaeologists went to Jericho to challenge the bible story. They found that the walls had been pushed down and in, as if the hand of God had come down and flattened them. The houses were built into the walls. One house was not flattened: God had spared the prostitute Rahab’s house.

Archaeology has proven that while excavating Sodom and Gomorrah: there is sediment close to 4 meters deep in the ground where it was burnt by fire... there is a salt lick that camels use where the Bible says, “Lot’s wife looked back and was turned to a pillar of salt.”

I know what you’re thinking: it is getting to the point due to so many scientific discoveries; that it takes very little faith to believe anymore? “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist”, Norman Geisler says: “historical and archaeological evidence points us well on our way to believing what we do: so, the faith that we have in our God is, in fact, reasonable. “I’m thinking, it is already to the point that it is unreasonable: one would have to be delusional when confronted with the mountains of concrete evidence supporting God and the Bible to not believe.

If you search the archaeologists and the men that were mentioned earlier? You will find that Doctor Luke, who wrote the books of Luke and Acts (approximately A.D. 50 and 55 respectively) is in fact the greatest-most accurate historian that ever lived! Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford will confess to Luke’s credentials and trustworthiness. Luke documented some 300 persons, places without failure... “Luke’s history is unsurpassed in respect of trustworthiness.” -Sir William Ramsay; “Any attempt to reject its basic historicity even in matters of detail must now appear absurd.” - Roman historian A.N Sherwin White; “Colin Hemer identifies 84 facts in the last 16 chapters that have been confirmed by historical and archaeological research. Doctor Luke named 32 countries, 54 cities and 9 islands without an error.’ (The book of Acts in the setting of Hellenistic history- by Colin Hemer; “The historicity of the narrative is indisputable!" – A.N. Sherwin White.

Psalm 19:1 says, “The Heavens declare the glory of the Lord; the firmament of the Earth testifies to His handiwork.’ Constants: If the sun was 100 miles closer to Earth, we would burn. If the sun were 100 miles further away from us, we would freeze... If the sun were not where it is in proximity to the moon: our atmosphere would fall apart... the huge magnetic polarity of Saturn has saved the Earth from destruction many times over these are called “constants”. There are close to 100 different constants that have been identified: If just one of any of the hundred constants did not exist, planet Earth could not support life.

Isaiah 40:22 says, “He sits enthroned on the circle of the Earth” ... everyone thought Christopher Columbus was crazy when he said the Earth is round.

What if we just read and trusted our Bible? Then we would know our world, the whole make-up, the cure to every hurt, habit, hang-up, or addiction.... over 5,000 years before modern-secular science discovered it: The book of Job (God wrote) tells us how the water sprouts from the crust of the Earth at the bottom of the ocean; and about the path of a lightning bolt.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “He has placed eternity in your heart.” Biological science has recently proven that when every person ever born, was conceived in their mother’s womb; when the sperm first came in contact with the egg cell; there is "a spark of energy created”- a divine spark! (See Jeremiah 1:5)

Oxford’s atheistic “hammer”, biologist Richard Dawkins says: “Every human has 6 trillion cells in their bodies. Every single one of your 6 trillion cells carries enough genetic information to fill 1,000 encyclopedia Britannica’s." (When you look in the mirror, you are looking at a miracle.) Nasa’s Graham Kendrick says: “Hands that flung stars into space, to cruel nails surrendered” ... You have viewed now: historical, biological, cosmological archaeological evidence proving that your Bible is true and factual and irrefutable. And what you read here is only a small taste of what the Lord has shown of himself; “If you seek, you will find.”

Now, the burden of proof falls on the dissenter: meaning the enemies of Jesus have never-not once, offered one shred of evidence disproving Christianity (It’s on them to present their evidence now).

Men and women know nothing in this world or universe that does not have a cause. The scientific law: “Ex nihilo nihil fit" (out of nothing, nothing comes) science has proven you can’t get a protein unless you have a first protein for it to come from. Neither you, our universe, or that first protein came from nothing. Us and it had to have a creator (Check Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington). Dr. T.N. Tahmisian of the U.S Atomic Energy Commission says:"teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con men, and the story they are telling maybe the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact.”

For the most part, these people that are saying the Bible is a myth; are of a belief system that has been undeniably proven to be untrue. In fact, not one thing in the Bible has been disproven. And there is not one shred of scientific evidence to support evolution as an origin of species… Search Michael Behe’s “Bacterial Flagellum”, and “the Cambrian explosion”: both are solid biological and archaeological evidence that there is zero truth to evolution. Throw in Darwin’s “missing link” (no species has ever crossed into another-ever) the missing link is still missing-equals: evolution is a lie.

For the most part, when our Christian philosophers like Ravi Zacharias, William Lane Craig or Norman Geisler debate atheists; any honest scientist must admit:” this universe, our biological make-up is far too intricate and complex to not have a designer. But it is not morally comfortable to admit such a thing” … it is not a matter of evidence, and what is true and what is not: if we admit there is a God then we admit there is a moral lawgiver that we have to answer to. we already spoke of Einstein. Kepler (Kepler telescope) and the great Galileo all Believe in God. It comes down to real integrity and the willingness to be honest.

“Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seemed to suggest in underlying, one might say, supernatural plan”. -Nobel Laureate Arno Penzias “We are by, astronomical standards, a pampered, costed, cherished group of creatures. If the universe had not been made with the most exacting precision, we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in”. -NASA astronomer John O’Keefe

“The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident is 0”. -Nobel Laureate in chemistry Ilya Prigogine

In your Bible, Romans 1:19-20 makes clear” what may be known of God is manifested in us… the invisible things of him and the creation of the world are clearly seen… so they are without excuse”. 2nd Peter 3:5 says” they willingly are ignorant that by the word of God (the earth and the universe and all that you see) was called into being”.

The renowned atheist Bertrand Russell said, “When I die, if I stand before God; I will ask him why he did not offer me enough evidence to believe?” To which God will tell him that he “willingly" suppressed all the evidence of my existence.”

French atheistic philosopher Voltaire said 400 years ago:” In 50 years there will be no more Bibles” … today, if you go to any university, you will find people wherever you go that know of the Bible. Only in various philosophy departments have people heard of Voltaire… today, if you go to the house in France where Voltaire lives you will find it was purchased by the Geneva Bible Society; and they are printing bibles there.🤣😂

“Mighty Potentates have raged against this book and sought to destroy and uproot it. Alexander the Great and the Princes of Egypt and Babylon, the monarchs of Persia and Greece and Rome, the emperors Julius and Augustus-but they prevailed nothing. They are gone, while the book remains, and it will remain forever and ever, perfect and entire as it was declared at first. Who was helped it- who has protected it against such mighty forces? No one, Surely, but God himself who is master of all things.” -Martin Luther

“One man only in the history of the world has had explicit details given beforehand of his birth, life, death and resurrection; that these details are in documents given to the public centuries before he appeared, and that no one challenges, or can challenge, that these documents were widely circulated long before his birth.” -D.M. Panton

Don't let anyone ever tell you the Bible has been changed! Books have been left out! Or the Bible is false!!! The truth of God and all the evidence is on your side… William F. Albright says: “Every book of the New Testament was written before A.D. 75. This means that the entire New Testament was written while most of the eyewitnesses were still alive” … origin: “the four Gospels were received without dispute by the whole Church of God under heaven.”

Studies of the New Testament revealed that it has been copied with over 99% accuracy, the remaining portion of less than 1% affecting no significant teaching. The New Testament has over 5,000 manuscript copies which began to be produced less than 50 years after the New Testament was written.

No, science has not disproven one single thing in the Bible! God is “Omni science”! He gives us science to lead us on our way to saying “Oh, that is how our awesome God did it!”

Truthfully, I feel sorry for men/women of science that attempt to deny our Omni science God. C.S. Lewis likened it to climbing up the tallest tree; Then cutting off the branch you were sitting on. Can someone truly possess wisdom and knowledge when they have cut themselves off from the author of wisdom and knowledge? Can one even know truth when they have blinded themselves to him of whom all truth is found?

Francis S. Collins says: “Science is not threatened by God; it is enhanced. God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.”

For the record: the Old Testament of your Bible was taken from the “Greek Septuagint”. A Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible dated around 250 B.C. was so accurate that the Hebrews would throw festivals in honor of it every year! (250 years before Christ)

A short list of early church manuscripts found:

1. New Testament manuscripts total: 200,000 to 400,000 copies
2. Greek copies of the New Testament: 5,700
3. Latin copies of the New Testament: 100,000
4. Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian: 10,000 to 15,000
5. copies from the first three centuries: so, when New Testament Greek (there is zero evidence-no documentation proving examples of errors in your Bible)

So, anyone that makes the statement that “the Bible is a myth, there was no proof of the Bible authenticity, or science has disproven the Bible”; is either misinformed and ignorant of the facts, or is a blatant liar that is in fact serving the father of lies- (the Devil)

“The Christian can take the whole Bible in his hand and say without fear or hesitation that he holds in it the true word of God, handed down without essential loss from generation to generation throughout the centuries.” -Sir Fredrick Kenyon

You are not a body (flesh) with a spirit. You are a spirit with a body… three different doctors, all through the 1900s weighed people when they died. It was proven that 3 oz leave every person's body when they die. It did not make a difference whether it was a 300-pound man, or 100-pound woman: 3 oz left every person’s body when they die.

The Bible is the only thing that tells us what that 3 ounces is... whatever you are going through right now, or whatever may be coming against you: it is only temporary. You have an “eternal soul”: the very essence of God-your father. And one day, we will be with him for eternity. Psalm 16:11 says, “In his presence is fullness of joy, and pleasures for evermore”. Galileo says, “The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. The human mind is a work of God and one of the most excellent.”

This from Johannes Kepler: “The chief aim of all investigations of the eternal world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics… I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace” … and “There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.” -Sir Isaac Newton

We will close this with 4 of the most respected scientists in the history of our planet. Astrophysicist Robert Jastrow’s famous book “God and the Astronomers” says: “Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads us to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements and the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same; the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy”.

Doctor Francis S. Collins, head of “The Human Genome Project” says: “The Big Bang cries out for a divine explanation. It forces the conclusion that nature had a defined beginning. I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that”.

All I hear from atheists is: “luck would have it”; or “by chance coincidence”: What faith! I'm not willing to bet my eternal existence and forgiveness on the odds that atheists do! The consensus among evolutionary scientists is that “If the rate of expansion one second after The Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in 100,000 million, the universe would have recollapsed before it even reached its present size.”

This means that if you are willing to wager/to gamble on there not being an eternal God you will one day answer to: the odds of you being correct(winning) is the equivalent of all the grains of sand, on all the beaches of the world; and you, at some random beach, bending over and picking up the one grain of sand in all the world's beaches that can save you.

Stephen Hawking, in “A Brief History of Time” states: “It would be very difficult to explain why the universe shouldn't be done in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.”

Arno Penzias, the Nobel Prize winning scientist who Co-discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation states: “The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.”

How is Christianity Different than all Other Religions? Don’t all Religions Lead to Heaven?

Around 1920, a young C.S. Lewis walked into a symposium on religions in India and was promptly asked, “What is it that sets Christianity apart from all other religions?” Mr. Lewis looked up and promptly answered, “Grace!”

Even the whole terminology of the word religion is man-made: religion is man trying to reach up to God by some idea or endeavor he created in his own mind. While Christianity (grace) is God reaching down to man and providing a way for us to be with him.

I mean, doesn't the sacrifice of Jesus make sense? Isn't Jesus the most rational and, in fact, reasonable decision for any human ever born to make?! Isaiah 55:8-9 Doesn't it make sense that if there is a God? “His ways and thoughts and all that He is are so high above our thoughts and all that we are.” If there is a God, then He is the Creator while we are His creation. It is so arrogant and egotistical for someone to think by their own mechanisms or endeavors that they could come into the presence of an almighty, perfect God.

Perhaps my favorite teacher on the planet, and who I see as a modern day C.S. Lewis, is Dr. Ravi Zacharias who said, “Jesus performed miracles to prove who He is. Prophecy identifies Jesus as the one who would come, the Messiah. No one has ever done what Jesus has done, no one has ever affected the whole world as Jesus has. No one is mentioned in history as much as Jesus is. How much more credibility has to be shown? No man has ever done what Jesus has. He is the only one in the history of the world who ever did what He did: He died and rose again from the dead. No matter what the enemies of God might say, let them just produce His body and all Christianity goes away.”

B.F. Westcott says, “The evidence compels us to conclude that Christ’s resurrection is the best attested fact in history. There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.”

Jewish scholars Pinchas Lapide and Geza Vermes (not Christians), declared themselves convinced on the basis of the evidence that Jesus’s tomb was empty. Pinchas Lapide, who is one of the most respected Jewish scholars on the planet, went on to say, “In accordance with the historical evidence; Jesus of Nazareth did, in fact, raise from the dead.”

You are at a fork in the road. Which path do you take? Down one way you see a whole bunch of dead guys and there is no life. Down the other road you see one who “was dead and is now alive and is now alive for evermore...” (Revelation 1:18) and He is beckoning you to come with Him and have life (John 10:10).

The resurrection of Jesus goes hand in hand with the grace of God. We were separated from God who is the author of life. now because He (Jesus) lives, we live also. Additionally, we have been brought back into union with the author of all life. No other religion makes such a claim. No other religion offers the evidence that the resurrection of Christ Jesus does. A couple very short but concise books documenting the evidence are Lee Strobel’s ‘The Case for Easter’ and Josh McDowells ‘The Resurrection Factor.’ Many might die for what they believe to be true, but nobody dies for what they know is a lie.

Do you know that Jesus rose and showed himself alive in Jerusalem?! The disciples (who were cowards) were hiding in an upper room and became bold as lions while proclaiming Jesus’s resurrection all through the same city where everyone was that perpetuated His death.

Why would His disciples go from fearing for their lives, to be brave unto death!? The Roman emperors Nero, Caligula, and Domitian, among others, were murdering Christians wherever they were. Yet, our early church fathers and mothers had no reason to fear death because their faith and trust was in the God who conquered death (see Hebrews 2:14-15 and 1 Peter 1:3-4). The fact is, if the followers of Jesus did not see Jesus alive after three days, there would be no bibles, no Christianity, and I would not even be writing this for you now. Because He lives, you and I, and all that we are, have real abundant life! TRUTH is the thing that sets Christianity apart from every other religion in this world that has been proven by science to be false.

Mohamedism (Islam) makes historical claims about the Bible and Jesus. Only the Quran (the Muslims holy book) was written 600 years after Christ. Every honest historian from the history departments of the top universities considers a writing ‘mythified’ ( filled with fantasies and fabrications) if it was written 200 years or more after the incident. The Islamic book of miracles (the Hadith) was created 200 years after Mohammed because Mohammed did zero miracles and even admitted as such in the Qur’an (see Surah 3:181-184). The Hadith is proven to be science fiction (as many Islamic scholars admit) and was created because Christian apologists made clear: “Every prophet that is truly of God is proven by signs and wonders from God.” So, the Hadith was created 200 years after Mohammed; and is just as true and real as Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings.

Muhammad married Aisha at 6 years old and consummated at 9. The Proof: Sahih Bukhari 5134: “The Prophet... had sex to complete his marriage when I was nine.” Aisha narrated that she was playing with dolls when he came to her (Bukhari 6130). This questions the moral example of the “Perfect Man” for all times.

Napoleon Bonaparte, the great general, said, “I know men and Jesus Christ was no mere man: me, Caesar, Charlemagne all founded empires. But what did we find them on? Force, violence. Jesus Christ founded his empire on love, and even today millions of people will die for Him.”

God does not act contrary to His character- ever! Read Surah 9 in the Qu’Ran and you will know: Allah is not the God of the bible. What is different between Jesus and Islam? In Christianity, God gives (sacrifices) His only son for you (John 3:16). In Islam, Allah asks you to sacrifice your son to him.

Hinduism teaches that the universe is eternal and has always been. Science, with the Big Bang, has proven Hinduism to be fictitious. Are you aware that in India (2020), Hindus are currently committing ethnic cleansing and are murdering both Muslims and Christians across India?

Buddhism is impressive philosophy that I enjoy reading! I loved how Buddha warned and ordered all his followers: “Do not ever worship me as a God! I am not a God!” I love honesty! Every genuinely good person does.

The truth, when it is clearly known, has the highest claim to authority because it demands compliance. Only the scriptures in the Bible have the support of miracles, and prophecy, which prove it to be the true authority. -William Lane Craig

The contemporary embarrassment about the missionary movement of the previous century is not, as we like to think, evidence that we have become more humble. It is, I fear, much more clearly evidence of a shift in belief. It is evidence that we are less ready to affirm the uniqueness, the centrality, the decisiveness of Jesus Christ as universal Lord and Savior, the way by following who the world is to find its true goal, the truth by which every other claim to truth is to be tested, the life in whom alone life in its fullness is to be found. -Bishop Lesslie Newbigin

Everything beautiful, good and true, wherever found, originates in the logos- the true light- Jesus Christ. -Justin Martyr

To every other religion: “God is some strict dictator that is sitting far off and watching us suffer in loneliness and pain while He judges us...” Jesus is Immanuel- “God with us!” In our pain, in our depression and addictions, He is our ever present companion in our loneliness. There is no place you could go that He cannot reach you. There is nothing you have ever done that could make Him love you any less. He loves you! He loves you! He loves you! God says, “You are to die for!”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer says, “God is not ashamed of human lowliness but goes right into the middle of it, chooses someone as an instrument, and performs the miracles right there where they are least expected. God draws near to the lowly, loving the lost, the unnoticed, the unremarkable, the excluded, the powerless, and the broken. What people say is lost, God says is found. What people say is condemned, God says is saved. Where people say ‘no!’ God says ‘yes!’ Where people turn their eyes away in indifference or arrogance, God gazes with a love that glows warmer than anywhere else. Where people say something is despicable, God calls it blessed. When we come to a point in our lives where we are completely ashamed of ourselves and before God, when we believe that God especially must now be ashamed of us, and when we feel as far away from God as ever in all our lives, that is the moment in which God is closer to us than ever, wanting to break into our lives, wanting us to feel the presence of the Holy and to grasp the miracle of God's love, God's nearness and grace.

What God, when someone He created, rebelled against Him and was separated from Him as a result of that rebellion, would pay the price for that rebellion, taking the punishment on Himself- even death on a cross? The love of this God is so great beyond human comprehension (there are no words to describe divine love) that Jesus is so desperately and immeasurably in love with you that He does not want heaven without you?! (See Romans 5:6-8)

All religions begin the same way. One man rises up alone and claims in his book to possess divine revelation. But the Bible is not merely one book; rather, it is an entire library of 66 books written by 40 plus authors over a period of 1600 years, living on 3 continents and speaking 3 different languages. What are the chances they would agree? Yet these books contain historical records, spiritual parables, timeless counsel, songs of worship, and prophetic visions that all unite to tell the complete story of God’s redemptive purposes for time and eternity, from beginning to end. The scriptures are complete. They connect our origins, our history, our morality, our relationships, the nature of God, the way to know Him, and what happens beyond the grave. All of it. All in one place. No book has changed so many lives and so powerfully rocked the world. No book has educated so much ignorance, initiated so much good, propagated so much love, and reprimanded so much evil.

“So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens to their country and respectable members of society. Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! What a utopia! What a paradise would this region be!” -Former President John Quincy Adams

Oxford University’s expert on historical evidence, Professor Richard Swinburne, says, “It is 97% likely that Jesus Christ miraculously rose from the dead.” God would not ever raise a liar from the dead. Our God confirmed just who our Lord and Savior Jesus is: “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to God except through me.” -John 14:6

If you are on trial, the evidence presented is what is going to either convict, or acquit you. Evidence, the proven facts point towards truth. If you were put on trial for something you are innocent of, evidence would definitely matter to you! Does it when it comes to God?

Sir Lionel Luckhoo is an attorney in the Guinness Book of World Records with 245 consecutive acquittals. In researching the evidence, he said, “I say unequivocally that the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.”

After reviewing the evidence from a judicial perspective, Lord Darling, former Chief Justice of England, concludes: “There exists such overwhelming evidence, positive and negative, factual and circumstantial, that no intelligent jury in the world could fail to bring in a verdict that the resurrection story is true.”

“Let’s assume that the written accounts of His appearances to hundreds of people are false. I want to pose a question. With an event so well publicized, don’t you think that it’s reasonable that one historian, one eye witness, or one antagonist would record for all time that he had seen Christ’s body? The silence of history is deafening when it comes to the testimony against the resurrection.” -Tom Anderson, former President of California Trial Lawyers Association

“For me, the historical evidence has reinforced my commitment to Jesus Christ as the Son of God who loves us and died for us and was raised from the dead. It’s that simple.” -Edwin Yamauchi, one of the world’s leading experts in ancient history

Harvard Law School Professor Simon Greenleaf, who wrote the most respected book on evidence in history, ‘The Treatise on Evidence,’ investigated the gospels of Christ Jesus and concluded, “A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.”