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The reason that we believe Christianity is
true is because the answer to four

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questions is yes.

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How about the first question, does truth
exist?

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Obviously, you hear people say all the
time, there is no truth, or you got your

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truth, I got my truth, all truth is
relative.

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When somebody says, there is no truth,
you ought to ask that person a question.

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You ought to say, is that true?

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Is it true that there's no truth?

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Because if it's true that there's no
truth, the claim there is no truth can't

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be true.

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But it claims to be true.

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In other words, it's a self-defeating
claim.

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Of course there's truth.

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If there was no truth, an atheist couldn't
be right that there was no God.

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So there is truth.

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Question number two, does God exist?

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There are several arguments for the
existence of God.

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Let me just give you one.

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Even atheists today are admitting that
space, matter, and time had a beginning

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out of nothing.

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Well, think about this, friends.

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If space, matter, and time had a beginning
out of nothing, whatever created space,

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matter, and time can't be made of space,
matter, and time.

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Now, when you think about a spaceless,
timeless, immaterial, powerful,

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personal, intelligent cause, who do you
think of?

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God.

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Now, we don't know it's the Christian God
at this point, but we know it's a theistic

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God, a being who's beyond the world,
who created the world.

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The third question is, are miracles
possible?

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Obviously, Christianity can't be true if
miracles are not possible.

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But the greatest miracle in the Bible has
already occurred, and we have scientific

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evidence for it.

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What's that?

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I just mentioned it.

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The creation of the universe out of
nothing.

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If Genesis 1-1 is true, every other verse
in the Bible is at least possible.

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Because if there's a being that can create
the universe out of nothing, can he do

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whatever he wants inside the universe?

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If he can create the whole show out of
nothing, of course he can resurrect Jesus

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from the dead, or walk on water,
or part the Red Sea.

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He can do any of that.

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So the final question, the fourth
question, which gets us all the way to the

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Christian God is, is the New Testament
reliable enough to show us that Jesus rose

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from the dead?

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The reason we believe in Christianity is
because an event occurred, the

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resurrection.

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Now, I have to ask you this, why would the
Jewish writers of the New Testament,

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all were Jewish with the exception of
Luke, why would they invent a resurrected

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Jesus?

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Why would they say that a man who claimed
to be God rose from the dead if it didn't

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happen?

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They thought that would be blasphemy for a
man to claim to be God.

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And why would they invent a resurrected
Jesus?

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They already thought they were God's
chosen people.

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They had no motive to invent a resurrected
Jesus.

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And certainly they could not have invented
it in Jerusalem, where an empty tomb

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existed.

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In other words, ladies and gentlemen,
the New Testament writers did not create

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the resurrection.

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The resurrection created the New Testament
writers.

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There would be no New Testament if it
wasn't for the resurrection.

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Now, even if the New Testament never
existed, Christianity would still be true.

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Why?

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Because Christianity is based on an event,
the resurrection.

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Do you realize there were thousands of
Christians before a line in the New

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Testament was ever written?

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Why?

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Because an event occurred, the
resurrection.

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You have to have more faith to believe it
didn't occur than it did.

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And if God exists, and He does,
and can create the universe out of

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nothing, then He can certainly resurrect
Jesus from the dead.

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That's why we believe in Christianity.