Monday, March 21, 2005
One Reason You Should Believe in the Resurrection Accounts
They make the early Christian leaders look bad.
If you were making something up, why would you make your leaders look bad?
They make the early Christian leaders look bad.
And so begins the story of Christianity—with confusion, not with clarity; with mystery, not with certainty. According to Luke's Gospel, the disciples at first treated the women's report of the empty tomb as "an idle tale, and ... did not believe them"; the Gospel of John says that Jesus' followers "as yet ... did not know ... that he must rise from the dead."
If you were making something up, why would you make your leaders look bad?
