Im fascinated with history, so I eagerly watched a television special on Englands great King Arthur. A theme surfaced as each historian acknowledged that there were no eyewitness accounts nor historical evidence to support the story of King Arthur, his knights, and their Round Table. Repeatedly, the story was referred to as legend or mythology. It appears that the story is merely a legend woven together over centuries from fragments of other stories.
The good news of the gospel, however, is not rooted in mythology or legend but in verified fact, and its the greatest story ever told. Paul wrote that the most important event in human historythe resurrection of Jesus Christis supported by actual eyewitnesses. While listing disciples who had seen the risen Christ, Paul punctuated the list of eyewitnesses by writing, After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep (1 Cor. 15:6). At the time of Pauls writing, many of those witnesses were still alive and available for questioning.
The resurrection of Christ is not a myth. It is the factual pivot-point of history.
Read: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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