Easter :: YouVersion Event

Pew Research Center:

33% of peoplepolled (36 countries) said;“they can’t rely on the news to be true”

24% of people polled said;“social media did a good job of separating FACT from FICTION”

~ Reuters - JUNE 21, 2017

"Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas,and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 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."

~ 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, 12-14

“PREACHER” - the word kérux

“TO PREACH” - the word kérussó

FAKE NEWS: refers to fabricated news

“Accounts of Jesus’ resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.”

~ Richard Dawkins

"Christianity hinges on the resurrection...If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says"

~ Andy Stanley

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

PUBLIC EVIDENCE

SOFT NEWS: refers to news you can use

HARD NEWS: refers to factual news that affects you

1. ALTERNATIVE TRUTH TEST

“Why on earth did anyone become a Christian in the first three centuries?”

~ Dr Larry W. Hurtado [University of Edinburgh]

“...no other cult in the Empire grew at anything like the speed of Christianity...”

~ Dr Robin Lane Fox [Oxford University]

“the Christians were of many ages and every rank, and also both sexes...the temples of the gods are almost deserted...”- 112 AD

~ Pliny the Younger, the Roman governor of Bithynia et Pontus

“When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”

~Acts 4:13

2. VALIDITY TEST

“It may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the other disciples had experiences after Jesus’ death in which Jesus appeared to them as the risen Christ.”

~ Gerd Lüdemann

3. CRITERION OF EMBARRASSMENT TEST

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