The Bible says: \u2018Because God\u2019s children are human beings\u2014made of flesh and blood\u2014the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could He die, and only by dying could He break the power\u2026 of death\u2026 He set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews\u00a02:14\u201315\u00a0NLT) <\/p>\n
Adolf von Harnack had doubts about the gospels but still admitted: \u2018Christ\u2019s grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal. It is useless to cite Plato\u2026 useless to point to the Persian religion and the ideas and literature of later Judaism. All that would have perished; but the certainty of the resurrection and of a life eternal which is bound up with the grave in Joseph\u2019s garden has not perished; and on the conviction that Jesus lives we still base those hopes of citizenship in an Eternal City, which make our earthly life worth living and tolerable. He delivered them \u201cwho, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage\u201d<\/i>.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Good news: you don\u2019t have to be in bondage to the fear of death! Dr Simon Greenleaf, world-renowned authority on legal evidence, shone the searchlight of his immense knowledge on the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and revealed every thread of that evidence to the most probing critique. And when he did, he concluded that the evidence was so tremendous that in any unbiased courtroom on earth, it would be proclaimed a historical fact. So what does all this mean for us as believers? Simply this: Christ\u2019s<\/i> resurrection guarantees ours<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bible says: \u2018Because God\u2019s children are human beings\u2014made of flesh and blood\u2014the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could He die, and only by dying could He break the power\u2026 of death\u2026 He set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}