Post #5: What is Jesus Up To?
Understanding the importance of the Resurrection and Ascension. Certainly, without the death of Jesus we would be sunk with no way for rescue or to be made right before God. It is the pivotal point in the story of mankind. But without the resurrection, the entirety of Christianity is meaningless. In fact, Paul says in I Corinthians 15, that if Christ was not raised from the dead, then our faith is futile, and we have no hope. In fact we are a people to be pitied the most (because it’s all a lie). There many things written in apologetics about the facts surrounding the resurrection and why it’s true. For me, I believe for the following: There were hundreds of eye-witness accounts that wrote about it. These people had nothing to gain from propagating a lie, and everything to lose. Those who bore witness to it gave their lives as martyrs, refusing to stop telling others about Jesus. Not sure why anyone would do that, and fa...