In the spring of 33 C.E., Jesus the Nazarene was
executed. He had been falsely charged with
sedition, savagely beaten, and nailed to a stake.
He died in excruciating pain. But God raised him
back to life, and 40 days later, Jesus ascended to
heaven.
This extraordinary account comes to us from the
four Gospels of the Christian Greek Scriptures,
commonly called the New Testament. Did those
things really happen? That is a pertinent and
serious question. If they did not, Christian faith is
valueless and the hope of eternal life in Paradise
is nothing more than a wishful dream.
( 1 Corinthians 15:14) On the other hand, if those
events really did happen, then there is a bright
future for mankind, one in which you can share.
So, are the Gospel accounts fact or fiction?
Regarding Jesus' resurrection, Peter, one of
his apostles, explained: "God raised this one
up on the third day and allowed him to
become manifest, not to all the people, but to
witnesses appointed beforehand by God, to
us, who ate and drank with him after his rising
from the dead." (Acts 10:40, 41) Why not to all
the people? Matthew's Gospel tells us that
when the religious enemies heard reports of
Jesus' resurrection, they schemed to suppress
them.— Matthew 28:11-15.
Does this mean that Jesus wanted his
resurrection to be kept secret? No, for Peter
went on to say: "He ordered us to preach to
the people and to give a thorough witness
that this is the one decreed by God to be
judge of the living and the dead." True
Christians have done and are doing just that.
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