1 Corinthians 15:14
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14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
Our salvation depends on this truth. Prove this as false and you have proven Christianity as false. With the many eyewitnesses both first and second-hand accounts, circumstantial evidence, archeological, secular historians, and logical reduction of reasoning ( argumentum ad absurdum (Latin for "argument to absurdity"), is a form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction. For example, trying to say every disciple of Jesus had one massive hallucination.
We have no issues with the intellectual ability to believe. Once this reality sets in, you understand Jesus was truly who He claimed to be within the words transcribed by the ancient writers. If Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be then He deserves our complete worship and surrender of our lives.
John 10:30-33
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30 I and the Father are one.”
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
Jesus supernaturally changed the elements of nature to make wine out of water. Or miraculously made a few loaves of bread and fish feed 1000s. He controlled the weather and commanded demons to flee. He called himself the Lord of the Sabbath. Forgave sins and defeated both sin and death. This was no mere man or prophet.
The original Apostles began to die out by the 1st century but their disciples kept writing and preaching as second-hand accounts to the original eyewitnesses
Early Church Father and Christian apologist Justin Martyr (150-160 A.D.) had this to say in his writing titled On the Resurrection.
Chapter IX. The resurrection of Christ proves that the body rises.
"If He had no need of the flesh, why did He heal it? And what is most forcible of all, He raised the dead. Why? Was it not to show what the resurrection should be? How then did He raise the dead? Their souls or their bodies? Manifestly both. If the resurrection were only spiritual, it was requisite that He, in raising the dead, should show the body lying apart by itself, and the soul living apart by itself. But now He did not do so, but raised the body, confirming in it the promise of life. Why did He rise in the flesh in which He suffered, unless to show the resurrection of the flesh?
And wishing to confirm this, when His disciples did not know whether to believe He had truly risen in the body, and were looking upon Him and doubting, He said to them, "Ye have not yet faith, see that it is I;" [2633] and He let them handle Him, and showed them the prints of the nails in His hands. And when they were by every kind of proof persuaded that it was Himself, and in the body, they asked Him to eat with them, that they might thus still more accurately ascertain that He had in verity risen bodily; and He did eat honey-comb and fish.
And when He had thus shown them that there is truly a resurrection of the flesh, wishing to show them this also, that it is not impossible for flesh to ascend into heaven (as He had said that our dwelling-place is in heaven), "He was taken up into heaven while they beheld," [2634] as He was in the flesh. If, therefore, after all that has been said, any one demand demonstration of the resurrection, he is in no respect different from the Sadducees, since the resurrection of the flesh is the power of God, and, being above all reasoning, is established by faith, and seen in works."
No need to doubt. God is not afraid of your questions. God will give you as much knowledge as needed to show He is the truth and the way.
Matthew 7:8
New International Version
8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
John 14:6
New International Version
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
As stated, if Jesus is who he claims to be (and he is) then Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. Making all other religions false.
Faith will always still be required but we have the assurance to believe in the things unseen. For example, I have never seen Heaven. It is only within faith we take Jesus's Words as true but because of the knowledge listed above, I have enough assurance to believe without seeing.
New International Version
14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
Our salvation depends on this truth. Prove this as false and you have proven Christianity as false. With the many eyewitnesses both first and second-hand accounts, circumstantial evidence, archeological, secular historians, and logical reduction of reasoning ( argumentum ad absurdum (Latin for "argument to absurdity"), is a form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction. For example, trying to say every disciple of Jesus had one massive hallucination.
We have no issues with the intellectual ability to believe. Once this reality sets in, you understand Jesus was truly who He claimed to be within the words transcribed by the ancient writers. If Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be then He deserves our complete worship and surrender of our lives.
John 10:30-33
New International Version
30 I and the Father are one.”
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
Jesus supernaturally changed the elements of nature to make wine out of water. Or miraculously made a few loaves of bread and fish feed 1000s. He controlled the weather and commanded demons to flee. He called himself the Lord of the Sabbath. Forgave sins and defeated both sin and death. This was no mere man or prophet.
The original Apostles began to die out by the 1st century but their disciples kept writing and preaching as second-hand accounts to the original eyewitnesses
Early Church Father and Christian apologist Justin Martyr (150-160 A.D.) had this to say in his writing titled On the Resurrection.
Chapter IX. The resurrection of Christ proves that the body rises.
"If He had no need of the flesh, why did He heal it? And what is most forcible of all, He raised the dead. Why? Was it not to show what the resurrection should be? How then did He raise the dead? Their souls or their bodies? Manifestly both. If the resurrection were only spiritual, it was requisite that He, in raising the dead, should show the body lying apart by itself, and the soul living apart by itself. But now He did not do so, but raised the body, confirming in it the promise of life. Why did He rise in the flesh in which He suffered, unless to show the resurrection of the flesh?
And wishing to confirm this, when His disciples did not know whether to believe He had truly risen in the body, and were looking upon Him and doubting, He said to them, "Ye have not yet faith, see that it is I;" [2633] and He let them handle Him, and showed them the prints of the nails in His hands. And when they were by every kind of proof persuaded that it was Himself, and in the body, they asked Him to eat with them, that they might thus still more accurately ascertain that He had in verity risen bodily; and He did eat honey-comb and fish.
And when He had thus shown them that there is truly a resurrection of the flesh, wishing to show them this also, that it is not impossible for flesh to ascend into heaven (as He had said that our dwelling-place is in heaven), "He was taken up into heaven while they beheld," [2634] as He was in the flesh. If, therefore, after all that has been said, any one demand demonstration of the resurrection, he is in no respect different from the Sadducees, since the resurrection of the flesh is the power of God, and, being above all reasoning, is established by faith, and seen in works."
No need to doubt. God is not afraid of your questions. God will give you as much knowledge as needed to show He is the truth and the way.
Matthew 7:8
New International Version
8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
John 14:6
New International Version
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
As stated, if Jesus is who he claims to be (and he is) then Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. Making all other religions false.
Faith will always still be required but we have the assurance to believe in the things unseen. For example, I have never seen Heaven. It is only within faith we take Jesus's Words as true but because of the knowledge listed above, I have enough assurance to believe without seeing.
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