What People have said about the resurrection.
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What People have said about the resurrection.
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Josh McDowell wrote; "After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is either one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted on the minds of human beings--or it is the most remarkable fact of history."
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Professor Thomas Arnold, author of the History of Rome, and appointed to the chair of modern history at Oxford. He said, "I have been used for many years to study the histories of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence of those who have written about them, and I know of no one fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fuller evidence of every sort, to the understanding of a fair inquirer, than the great sign which God hath given us that Christ died and rose again from the dead."
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Brooke Foss Westcott, an English scholar, said: "raking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it."
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After an appraisal of recent scholarship on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Professor William Craig contends that "the resurrection appearances, the empty tomb, and the origin of the Christian faith - all point unavoidably to one conclusion: the resurrection of Jesus".
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Dr Simon Greenleaf, Royal Professor of Law at Harvard University, one of two men responsible for the rise of Harvard Law School to its eminent position wrote the following: "According to the laws of legal evidence used in the courts of law, there is more evidence for the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ than for just about any other event in history."
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Dr. Paul Maier, professor of ancient history, said; "If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according to the canons of historical research, to conclude that the tomb in which Jesus was buried was actually empty on the morning of the first easter. And no shred of evidence has yet been discovered in literary sources, epigraphy or archaeology that would disprove this statement."
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Lord Caldecote, Lord Chief Justice, wrote; "My faith began with and was grounded on what I thought was revealed in the Bible. When, particularly, I came to the New Testament, the Gospels, and other writings of the men who had been friends of Jesus Christ seemed to me to make an overwhelming case, merely as a matter of strict evidence, for the fact therein stated......The same approach to the cardinal test of the claims of Jesus Christ, namely, His resurrection, has led me, as often as I have tried to examine the evidence, to believe it as fact beyond dispute."
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Dr. Frank Morrison, a lawyer, came to the opinion that the resurrection was nothing but a made up fairly tale happy ending which spoiled the story of Jesus. He set about writing a book to present the truth about Jesus and to dispel the myth of the resurrection of Jesus. However, upon studying the facts he came to a different conclusion. He felt the evidence was of such strength that he could not deny the resurrection. He went on to write a book after all - but not the one he had planned. He wrote, Who Moved the Stone?