![]() ![]() Death is not, after all, the great victor, but is a defeated foe. On the other hand, if the resurrection is really a demonstrable fact of history, then not only are His claims vindicated, but so are His promises. He is worse than they, in fact, because He is thereby branded as either a charlatan or a madman, since He staked all His claims to be absolute Deity on His promise to return from the dead. If all of this is somehow a delusion and if Jesus of Nazareth did not really rise from the dead, then He is no different from other great men who are also dead. In this brief study, we wish to examine carefully a little of the actual evidence for His resurrection. Buddha, Mohammed, Zoroaster, Confucius, Caesar, Marx-men who made a profound impact on the world in one way or another-are all dead.īut Jesus Christ is alive! It is true that He died and was buried, in common with all other men, but unlike other men He returned from Hades, resurrected His own dead body, made it henceforth immortal, and emerged from the tomb, alive forevermore! This was the greatest of all miracles since the creation itself, and could have been accomplished only if Jesus indeed is God, as He had claimed to be. All other men, even the greatest men and the holiest men, have died. The universality of the reign of decay and death is the measure of the absolute uniqueness of the resurrection of Christ. Its entropy, which is a measure of disorder, always tends to increase. It says, quite simply that every system tends to become disordered, to run down and eventually to die. Also known as the Law of Increasing Entropy, this Law is now recognized as a universal law of science, with no known exception ever observed. In science it has come to be recognized as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This universal reign of decay and death is called in the Bible "the bondage of corruption" ( Romans 8:21). Even the universe itself is running down and heading toward an ultimate "heat death." Homes and automobiles and clothes wear out and must eventually go back to the dust, just as do their owners. Cities and nations, like people, are born and grow for a season, and then fade away. Animals die and plants die, and even whole species atrophy and become extinct. In fact, the inexorable triumph of death applies not only to people, but to all things. The grave always wins the victory and every person sooner or later returns to the dust. No man is wise enough to outwit death or wealthy enough to purchase freedom from death or strong enough to vanquish death. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.ĭeath is our greatest enemy and it has conquered all men but Christ. If the resurrection did not take place then Christianity is a false religion. Everything else that was said or done by Christ and the apostles is secondary in importance to the resurrection. The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. The Resurrection of Christ - The Best-Proved Fact in History by Henry M. ![]()
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