Considering Jesus Christ

What makes Jesus standout from other religious leaders is the fact that 1) His coming was predicted, 2) He did accomplish what was expected of Him, something that no one else had ever done nor can ever do, and 3) His predictions of success continue to be witnessed today.  These are certainly enough evidence that individuals who are interested in finding God, should invest some time and effort in seeing if they are true and if HIs claim to be "the way" is true .

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Jesus also said that He is "the truth".  Truth has been a something that people have searched for from the beginning of time.  During the trial of Jesus, the Roman governor, Pilate, asked a rather skeptical question, "What is truth?".  Jesus had just stated that He had come to "bear witness to the truth".  Pilate, an educated Roman, had heard all of the Greek and Roman concepts related to "truth".  One popular belief was that truth was relative, that is, it constantly changes.  Does that sound familiar to what we are experiencing today in our culture?  In our post-modern world, truth is relative and based on individual feelings so "your truth" can be different from "my truth".  "Reality" is what I want it to be.  There are no absolute truths and no such thing as absolute "human rights" because "my right" is as "right" as "your right".  Not only does that sound ridiculous, it sounds dangerous.  If there ever was a generation of people who need to know  objective truth and reality, it is our generation.  And Jesus is certainly one who should be considered, whose truth works for all people in every generation.  A truth which provides a solid foundation for our existence rather than the "shifting sand" of relativity.  

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And Jesus said, "I am the life".  If it is true that we exist because of a Creator (please read Considering God), then there was a reason for creation and a purpose for our existence. Was that purpose just to be here on an average of 75-80 years and then "poof", we are gone?  People have always asked the question, "Is there something after death?".  If you believe we are the product of an explosion (Big Bang) then you probably don't believe in any existence after this life.  But if you believe that there is a wonderful Creator who is responsible for our experiencing life, then the answer to the question is that it is certainly possible and even probable.  Then Jesus comes into the world, lives in the world, and promises people the opportunity for eternal life.  But then He dies which would have nullified His claims except for one most remarkable event...His resurrection from the dead. So if the resurrection is true, then Jesus' claim to be "the life" is true.    

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This resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the one and only explanation for the entire movement that believes Him to be the Christ, the Son of God.   Belief in the His resurrection is not a myth, that is, a made up explanation of something from the past that no one witnessed.  The claim of the resurrection of Jesus took place in a real place during a known historical time and claimed to have been seen by eye-witnesses.  It is not legend, an explanation for the "appearance of a resurrection", which grew over time into the current belief.  From the very beginning, people claimed to have witnessed His resurrection. The witnesses may have been lying but their story was consistent from the very beginning.  And some of the key witnesses died because they believed that the only explanation for what they witnessed was what had been predicted in the Scriptures hundreds of years before Jesus was born, that the Christ had suffer death but that would not be the end of His story.