He is risen! You decide...

Lee Strobel quotes professor Gerd Lüdemann, professor at the University of Göttingen in Germany on the plausibility of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The prof. says,

“If you say that Jesus rose from the dead biologically, you would have to presuppose that a decaying corpse -- which is already cold and without blood in its brain -- could be made alive again..." "I think that is nonsense."

The Apostle Paul, formerly Saul Tarsus -- who saw the resurrected Christ with his own eyes -- wrote:

"If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins."

Regarding the resurrection - you decide for yourself! You don't actually decide if it is true or not. Your decision, regardless of what it is regarding the resurrection, does not change the historical facts regarding Christ's rising from the dead. Either He rose or He did not. Your decision only affects how your life is lived within the reality of the truth of the resurrection. And that decision has huge ramifications for the life you get to live in the here and now and in the one to come.

"Christ is risen. He is risen, indeed!"

a partner in the good news of Jesus,

Paul

the one from Proctor, Minnesota -- not the one from Tarsus : )