The Skeptics and the Resurrection by Dr. D. James Kennedy
"Now if Christ is preached that He rose from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?" I Corinthians 15:12
Look at the resurrection, my friends, from the eyes of the unbeliever. I want to tell you that the resurrection is a highly unlikely thing. In fact, it is incredible when you really stop to think about it.
It is so incredible that David Hume, the famous Scottish philosopher
and skeptic, said that the universal experience of mankind declared that
when people die they are dead, and the dead stay that way.
Oh, yes, there are those who are clinically dead for a few minutes, but it has never been seen, he said, in the experience of mankind that those who have been dead for days or weeks or years or centuries have ever plopped up out of the sod and walked again.
So the universal experience of mankind is against that ever happening. Of course, Hume forgot to include the only really significant experience in his statement. Jesus Christ transformed the world when He walked out of the tomb on the first Easter morning.
JESUS answered that question, “Shall man live again?” in the affirmative, once and for all.
Have you ever felt skepticism toward the resurrection? Have you ever doubted the greatest story ever told? If so, perhaps you should fall on your knees and ask the risen LORD for a fresh revelation of Himself.
Perhaps you should allow yourself to behold the wonder of everything HIS rising means to you eternally.
Oh, yes, there are those who are clinically dead for a few minutes, but it has never been seen, he said, in the experience of mankind that those who have been dead for days or weeks or years or centuries have ever plopped up out of the sod and walked again.
So the universal experience of mankind is against that ever happening. Of course, Hume forgot to include the only really significant experience in his statement. Jesus Christ transformed the world when He walked out of the tomb on the first Easter morning.
JESUS answered that question, “Shall man live again?” in the affirmative, once and for all.
Have you ever felt skepticism toward the resurrection? Have you ever doubted the greatest story ever told? If so, perhaps you should fall on your knees and ask the risen LORD for a fresh revelation of Himself.
Perhaps you should allow yourself to behold the wonder of everything HIS rising means to you eternally.
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