Eight Days Later - A New Perspective

Many skeptics have questioned the reality of Jesus’ resurrection over the centuries. Listen as Pastor Chuck defends the historical fact of the resurrection by exposing five flawed arguments that skeptics use to attack the truth of Jesus’ resurrection. What are the difficult facts you would have to accept in order to NOT believe in the historicity of the resurrection: • You would have to believe that the disciples stole the body out of the tomb. • You would have to believe that the soldiers stationed at the tomb were so inept as to sleep through the stealing of the body thus never engaging the thieves, but nonetheless were able to identify the disciples as the thieves. • You would have to believe that eleven disciples, among others, lived and died for something they knew from personal experience to be a lie. • You would have to believe that James, the half-brother of Jesus, rejected the faith while Jesus was alive, but after he was killed converted to Christianity with the knowledge that it was a complete hoax. • You would have to believe that 500 people got together and successfully kept the secret of their lie (we saw the risen Christ) OR 500 people saw a group hallucination at the same time. The truth of the resurrection emboldened the early disciples to spread out and preach the Good News of Jesus to the world. Even “doubting Thomas” became a missionary to India. May we follow the command of Christ to spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth!