The reason that we believe Christianity is true is because the answer to four
questions is yes.
How about the first question, does truth exist?
Obviously, you hear people say all the time, there is no truth, or you got your
truth, I got my truth, all truth is relative.
When somebody says, there is no truth, you ought to ask that person a question.
You ought to say, is that true?
Is it true that there's no truth?
Because if it's true that there's no truth, the claim there is no truth can't
be true.
But it claims to be true.
In other words, it's a self-defeating claim.
Of course there's truth.
If there was no truth, an atheist couldn't be right that there was no God.
So there is truth.
Question number two, does God exist?
There are several arguments for the existence of God.
Let me just give you one.
Even atheists today are admitting that space, matter, and time had a beginning
out of nothing.
Well, think about this, friends.
If space, matter, and time had a beginning out of nothing, whatever created space,
matter, and time can't be made of space, matter, and time.
Now, when you think about a spaceless, timeless, immaterial, powerful,
personal, intelligent cause, who do you think of?
God.
Now, we don't know it's the Christian God at this point, but we know it's a theistic
God, a being who's beyond the world, who created the world.
The third question is, are miracles possible?
Obviously, Christianity can't be true if miracles are not possible.
But the greatest miracle in the Bible has already occurred, and we have scientific
evidence for it.
What's that?
I just mentioned it.
The creation of the universe out of nothing.
If Genesis 1-1 is true, every other verse in the Bible is at least possible.
Because if there's a being that can create the universe out of nothing, can he do
whatever he wants inside the universe?
If he can create the whole show out of nothing, of course he can resurrect Jesus
from the dead, or walk on water, or part the Red Sea.
He can do any of that.
So the final question, the fourth question, which gets us all the way to the
Christian God is, is the New Testament reliable enough to show us that Jesus rose
from the dead?
The reason we believe in Christianity is because an event occurred, the
resurrection.
Now, I have to ask you this, why would the Jewish writers of the New Testament,
all were Jewish with the exception of Luke, why would they invent a resurrected
Jesus?
Why would they say that a man who claimed to be God rose from the dead if it didn't
happen?
They thought that would be blasphemy for a man to claim to be God.
And why would they invent a resurrected Jesus?
They already thought they were God's chosen people.
They had no motive to invent a resurrected Jesus.
And certainly they could not have invented it in Jerusalem, where an empty tomb
existed.
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, the New Testament writers did not create
the resurrection.
The resurrection created the New Testament writers.
There would be no New Testament if it wasn't for the resurrection.
Now, even if the New Testament never existed, Christianity would still be true.
Why?
Because Christianity is based on an event, the resurrection.
Do you realize there were thousands of Christians before a line in the New
Testament was ever written?
Why?
Because an event occurred, the resurrection.
You have to have more faith to believe it didn't occur than it did.
And if God exists, and He does, and can create the universe out of
nothing, then He can certainly resurrect Jesus from the dead.
That's why we believe in Christianity.