True or False
Wednesday, July 26, 2006If you signed a contract with you boss stating that you will certainly get paid if you type 10 letters everyday in the coming month, then you will know your goal (type 10 letter every day), do your work, and wait for the end of the month as you knew the boss is going to pay you.
However, if you knew the contract was false, will you foolishly work for your boss and waste your whole month typing these letters? I'd except all smart people like you would say No! Therefore, we can see people would work for the truth but not for a lie.
In the same way, if the early christian in the first century knew the resurrection of Christ is a lie, would they die for a lie?
The following is summerised from a book called "More than a Carpenter" written by Josh McDowell that i read recently. One of the chapter tells us same historical fact: Half of the apostles were crucified; two of them were killed by the sword; Jame, brother of Jesus, was stoned to death. Eleven out of twelve apostles were killed because of preaching the news about Jesus. Why would they die for a lie? We won't even waste only a month to type the letters as we knew the contract was not true. How could they spend their life time or even die for a lie?
Or had all of them gone mad at the same time with the same reason? For me, it is very hard to believe ALL of them'd gone mad over one night but they were still able to preach the news and write the New Testament logically and wisely. Could a mad man do this?
The only reason that expains why they were willing to die for Jesus is that they knew it was true. They saw the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus did rise from dead. This logically explains why Peter, who denied Jesus three times before his crucifixion, showed up in public later, told others Jesus is the Lord and the Son of God, and finally was crucified for Jesus' sake. The only valid reason for the change in Peter is due to the fact that he saw Jesus' resurrection and he is the eyewitness of all events.
Which one is easier to believe? The early christian died for a truth or they died because they'd gone mad at the same moment.
posted by Sharon @ 5:11 pm
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