Welcome to Every Though Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.
As we approach the Easter season, scores of articles and TV documentaries will inevitably be written and aired which will call into question the reliability of the resurrection account of Jesus Christ. What is exciting for the Christian, however, is that Christ’s resurrection is one of the easiest events in the Gospels to defend.
Take the case for the empty tomb. All the good evidence points to Jesus’ tomb actually being empty. If his body was still in the tomb, the disciples would not have seriously believed in his physical resurrection. And they could not have preached the resurrection in Jerusalem where their enemies could have easily produced Christ’s body and proven them wrong. The disciples took the resurrection seriously, nobody in Jerusalem denied the tomb was empty, and none of Christ’s enemies could produce the body to squelch the early Church. It seems clear-the tomb really was empty.
This has been Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church, and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies. For more information, please visit, everythoughtcaptive.org.
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