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The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
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As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
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Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
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Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
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On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
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For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
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If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
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Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
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The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
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I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.
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If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.
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Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
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Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
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Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
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Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
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