First Peter 3:15

About the App

1 Thessalonians 5:21 says “Test everything. Hold onto the good.” This entire app is loaded with archaeologists, historians, and great men of science that were skeptical of Jesus Christ and the gospels until they critiqued (investigated) them. Until a belief, thought process or philosophy is critiqued (challenged by adversity), you cannot know for sure if the belief you hold is true and real. If the hope that you have in your heart is not tried by fire” and has not “stood the test of the storm,” then you cannot rely on it when it seems like everything is going wrong in your life.

“I must always be prepared to give an answer and reason for the hope that I have in my heart” (1 Peter 3:15) …. If our hope is not founded in and proven by facts that stand the test of time, then our hope will fail.

As it is right now, 3 out of 4 of our young Christian kids are leaving the church by the age of 21. If this is not the most alarming statistic to every Christian man or woman on this planet, then I question their faith in the sacrifice of Jesus. Truth is, what we believe as Christians is so real and proven by science that the salvation of these 3 out of 4 children ought to mean more to us than our very own life!

“After more than two centuries of facing the heaviest scientific guns that could be brought to bear, the Bible has survived- and is all the more the better for the siege.” (Time magazine- December 1974)

The purpose of this app is so that kids can log on anywhere in the world and give an “honest answer and a reason” for their hope and faith in Christ Jesus when questioned by skeptics. A young Christian in Brazil or China, while riding on the back of a bus, is tormented, and ridiculed by questions from a skeptic. At the click of a finger, our young one will be able to give a solid scientifically backed and rationally reasonable answer for all that are present.

I love skeptics and so should you! Because, as a Christian, truth is on your side. A true skeptic is a genuine Christian in the making because an honest skeptic is going to follow the evidence where it leads.

In 1672, Filleau de la Chaise said, “If men know anything with assurance, it is the facts; and of everything that falls within their knowledge, there is nothing in which it would be more difficult to deceive and over which there would be less occasion for dispute. And thus, when one will have made them see that the Christian religion is inseparably attached to facts whose truth cannot sincerely be contested, they must submit to all that it teaches or else renounce sincerity and reason.

Christians do not get brownie points for not educating ourselves! We are commanded to “study to show ourselves a good workman” and to “love the Lord our God with all our heart, [mind], soul and strength” … The bible teaches us that every single Christian should be able to explain why he/she is a Christian. The reason is because of Jesus Christ; He is the reason for the hope that is within us. You can take the founder of any other religion, and historically he could have been replaced by anyone else and their message would survive, but you cannot take Christ out of Christianity. Jesus is the reason for the hope: his birth, his death on the cross and his resurrection.

On the cross we have the most amazing gift where God gives himself to us that we might have fellowship with Him. This is the reason why we have hope and it's not a question of a better philosophy somewhere. There is no other truth; Jesus Christ is the ultimate and absolute truth. This app is so you may always rest confidently assured that you have an answer for the faith you have in Him.

Why is there so much evil in the world if God is loving?

If God is good, and if God is all powerful, then why is there so much evil and suffering in the world? A young college student was in class and his professor started to speak against God: “If God is good, and God is all powerful, then why is there so much evil and suffering; why so many plagues and diseases causing so much pain and killing so many people all over the world? If God is truly good, he would intervene and put a stop to all this evil. So, in conclusion, there must not be a God- and if it so happens that there is a God, then God is evil.” All the other students nodded in agreement-all except one student. This student asked, “Professor, what is darkness?”

The professor looked confused. The student answered, “Darkness is the absence of light.” Then the same student asked, “What is cold? Cold is merely the absence of heat” … “Professor, evil is merely the absence of the love of God in someone’s heart.” That student was a young Albert Einstein.

Someone once said that it was not science that caused him to question God; it is the pathetic condition of the world, to which Dr. Ravi Zacharias asks, “What efforts have you personally put forth in an attempt to relieve the pathetic condition of the world?”

Many would point to God as an evil dictator, sitting back on His lawn chair while watching all of us suffer in agony, even letting out a little laugh or snicker every now and then at our plight… but the cross of Christ Jesus entirely destroys any inclination or insinuation that our Heavenly Father does not both see and share in our heartache! He is “longsuffering in love.” “We have a high priest in Jesus who has suffered and endured and who does empathize with our weaknesses, who has been tempted in every way we ever could” -Hebrews 4:15

The presence of evil in the world? What if it is because the Bible is in fact true?

Is God worthy of our love? Because of the immeasurable price he paid for us, surely, He loves us beyond human comprehension and desperately desires a relationship with us… but you cannot love without having the freedom to not love. No, forced love is rape. WE have been given “free will”; we have been given the freedom to choose the good and pure love of God, or evil. God could not, nor would He, create robots forced into subservient love. In giving men and women free will, God had to allow the possibility of us choosing evil.

Jean-Paul Sartre says, “The man who wants to be loved does not desire the enslavement of the beloved. He is not bent on becoming the object of passion which flows forth mechanically; the Lover will feel that both His Love and His Being are actually cheapened. If you make love an automatic reflex, then it is not love.”

Every single human ever born will get the chance to choose God’s good and pure, world-overcoming, awe-encompassing, addiction and depression-destroying love. Not everyone will; some will even rebel against it.

England’s celebrated biological atheist and Nobel prize laureate, Dr. Francis Crick, advocated compulsory death of all who reach the age of 80 as part of “a new ethical system based on modern science.”

David Berlinski, a secular Jew who received his PhD from Princeton University, says “What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe and what the Gestapo did not believe is that God was watching what they were doing.”

Where does evil actually come from? Certainly not from God who has convincingly proven himself to be absolute- and undeniably love. Atheism is a fundamental and philosophical foundation for racism. In fact, Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ refers to “evolutionarily superior and evolutionarily inferior races….” It was evolutionists who actually caged a young black man in a zoo in New York in the early 1900’s by the name of Ota Benga. Due to the outrage of Christians, the atheists released the young black man. He was so traumatized and emotionally devastated after being treated like an animal that he committed suicide. (see Creation in the 21st Century)

All thanks to evolution, Adolf Hitler was able to convince his people that a certain race of people was evolutionarily inferior. In the words of Sir Arthur Keith, a militant anti-Christian physical anthropologist, “The German Führer (Hitler), as I consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany to conform to the theory of evolution.”

Hitler said, “Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systemic cultivation of human failure.”

At the end of World War 2, Atheists around the world were screaming “Auschwitz is proof that there is no God!” Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl who wrote the book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’ and was, himself, in an Auschwitz concentration camp, responded in kind, “People did not disown and deny God in Auschwitz. If anything, they grew closer to Him! Praying all the more harder and grabbing onto Him all the more tighter. In fact, it was atheists and secular humanists who are the ones who planned and perpetrated Auschwitz and the other Nazi death camps.”

The cruelty of atheism is not hard to believe when man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil. There is no reason to be human. There is no restraint from the depths of evil which is in man. The Communist Torturers often said, “There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. ‘We can do what we wish.’” I have heard one torturer even say, “I thank God, in whom I don’t believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.” He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflicted on prisoners- according to Richard Wurmbrand who was tortured for his faith in communist prisons.

I believe in the sun even when it's not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when God is silent. -Inscription on the wall of a Jewish Hideout in Cologne, Germany: World War 2

If I did not believe in a moral lawgiver that I must one day answer to, then what is to stop me from lying, cheating, stealing and manipulating any situation just to get ahead in this life (if this life is all there is?). Even murder would be permissible if that is what floats your boat (remember Albert Einstein’s definition of evil?) The problem with not believing in God is not that you don’t believe in God, but that you are liable to believe anything. You could fall victim to the deceit of any lying, treacherous evil on this earth.

Notre Dame professor Alvin Plantinga teaches, “now God can create free creatures, but he can’t cause or determine them to only do what’s right. For if He does so, then they aren’t significantly free after all; they do not do what is right freely. To create creatures capable of moral good, therefore, He must create creatures capable of moral evil; and He can’t give these creatures the freedom to perform evil and at the same time prevent them from doing so. As it turned out, sadly enough, some of the free creatures God created went wrong in the exercise of their freedom; this is the source of moral evil. The fact that free creatures sometimes go wrong, however, counts neither against God’s omnipotence nor against His goodness; for He could have forestalled the occurrence of moral evil only by removing the possibility of moral good… the free-will defense, however, shows that the existence of God is compatible, both logically and probabilistically, with the existence of evil; thus, it solves the main philosophical problem of evil.”

A man was visiting the barber and the subject went to God. The barber said, “I don’t believe in God. If there was a God, there would not be so much suffering and disease and poverty.” The man walked out of the barber shop, looked up and down the street and went back in and told the barber, “I don’t believe in barbers.” The barber was confused. The man said, “I looked around outside and all I saw was people with long-dirty-messed up hair. So I don’t believe in barbers.” “They must come to me.” (Matthew 11:28-31)

After receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, a reporter asked Mother Teresa how she could spend the majority of her life in the slums of India with the sick and homeless to which she abruptly answered, “Because Jesus loves me!”

All signs point to the reason for all the pain and heartache and hatred and evil in this world being, “Because people don’t come to him.”

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.”