Some thoughts on Easter:
Some questions I asked myself several years ago, while I was reconsidering faith in God.
One issue that caused to believe that Jesus rose from the dead was, well, why couldn't He have? I mean, if He was who He claimed to be, the Son of God, sent from Heaven, and if "all things were created through Him", wouldn't the Resurrection be a relatively simple thing to accomplish?
Also, if He rose from the dead, and no other person has ever done the same (of their own power), wouldn't it be wise to consider that listening to that person, as God the Father told us to do?
And looking at His disciples, why did twelve men all choose to die preaching that they saw a first-century preacher risen from the dead if that were not indeed true?
And why didn't their opponents, the ones who didn't want Peter, James, and John preaching in Jerusalem, produce the dead body of Jesus so that the new church would be discredited before its initial growth?
Posted by Joel Fuhrmann at April 11, 2004 09:18 PM