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" After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son. "
Son
True
Out
" Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other. "
Be True
Religions
Religion
" As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking. "
Stop
Reward
Early
" Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. "
Source
Information
Historical
" Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb. "
Traditions
Jewish
Empty
" Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. "
Easter
Alive
First
" Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life. "
Realize
Life
Seem
" For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. "
World
Absurd
Christianity
" Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them. "
Jesus Christ
Here
Dead
" I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is. "
I Am
My Life
Christian
" If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption. "
Future
Past
Forgiveness
" If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem. "
Where
Place
Face
" I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic. "
Toward
Father
Had
" I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. "
View
God
Relationship
" Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion. "
Unique
Power
Religion
" My greatest asset now is my focus. "
Now
Asset
Focus
" My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about. "
God
Power
Love
" No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good. "
Good
Pain
Loved
" Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context. "
Always
Now
Light
" Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. "
God
Attitude
He
" We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external. "
Truth Is
Gone
Truth
" When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Don't go it alone - you won't make it. "
Healing
Church
Body
" Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first. "
First
People
Used
" While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. "
God
Future
Alone
" Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did. "
Names
God
Reason
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