Jesus Christ Resurrection True or False

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True or False?

This blogpost by Mary Katherine May.

This is a serious multiple choice question.  

     Peter was asked by Jesus, "Who do you say that I am?"  and his reply was, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."  Did Peter pause before answering or was his response immediate without hesitation?  We don't know.  What Peter didn't understand when he answered is what confessing his belief meant in total but post-resurrection we do.

Post-resurrection, there are those who deny Jesus Christ's deity, deny the resurrection, and deny his oneness with God.  There are so many variations of unbelief that to put them all in single place would be a staggeringly difficult task.

     Firsthand accounts of the Messiah's resurrection from the dead exist.  One account is in the first chapter of the first epistle of John.

 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched – this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.  The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. (1John 1-2 NIVUK. Source: Biblegateway.com)

     Are the firsthand accounts of Christ's resurrection true?  I believe that they are most certainly true.

     How are we to respond to those who say that eyewitness testimonies are false?  It is a choice--a very poor choice but one that God has given people the freedom to make.

     There are those who deny the WWII Jewish holocaust happened, but it did.  There are those who deny that God created the world, even that God doesn't exist except in the minds of weaklings, but He did and He does.

     It is important to make a differentiation between documentation by firsthand accounts and the truth of what they report.  Christians do not have to prove what happened because the proof without a doubt exists.  To believe or not to believe is the choice every person makes on their own.

     Right now in the world we live in today we demonstrate the Living Christ by how we live and by what we say.  

Jesus Christ said it this way: 

A new command I give you: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.  (John 13: 34-35 NIVUK. Source: Biblegateway.com)

Believe it.  The truth is not out there.  The truth is right here, right now, forever.