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The Resurgence

Media Bias and the Resurrection of Jesus

By R. Fowler White
 
The military of ancient Rome really blew it. When it came to the resurrection of Jesus, the troops who guarded his tomb could have saved us all a lot of time and trouble by just giving up his dead body. One problem: they never did. They didn’t because they couldn’t. And they couldn’t because, despite what you may have read, the resurrection of Jesus was and is a well-attested fact, perhaps the best-attested fact of antiquity.
 
Neither the Romans nor the Jews of Jesus’ day denied it. In fact, practically nobody denied it for 1,700 years. But now it’s fashionable to deny it or, at least, to cast doubt on it. Why? Has the evidence changed? No, the testimony of history is still the same. As Thomas Arnold, former chair of Modern History at Oxford University, once wrote, “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 [has] given us that Christ died and rose again from the dead” (see his Sermons on the Christian Life: Its Hopes, Its Fears, and Its Close [6th ed.; London, 1859] 324).
 
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Please, Lord! Prove my point …

By Trevin Wax
 

“Man, who made Me a judge or arbitrator over you?”
- Jesus, to a man in the crowd (Luke 12:14)

As Jesus taught the crowds about the kingdom of God, a man called out and asked Jesus to command his brother to divide his family’s inheritance with him.
 
The man surely thought himself correct regarding the family dispute, and knowing that Jesus held authority in the mind of his brother, he figured he would use Jesus to get his own way. The man wanted to end the estranged relationship he held with his brother by calling for Jesus to issue the final decree of division - proclaiming his point of view and thus winning the battle over the family’s money.
 
I fear that too often we act just like this man. We take minor and petty disagreements with our brothers and sisters in Christ and begin to see them as major differences …
 
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