Posted on 04/08/2009 7:11:23 PM PDT by ReformationFan
As we approach Resurrection Sunday, it behooves us to remind ourselves (Christians should need no reminder) of the significance of this season. Along with the virgin birth, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ form the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Indeed, the resurrection of Jesus separates Christianity from all the world's religions.
Furthermore, the overwhelming number of America's founders understood the connection between the Christian faith and the rise of these United States. John Quincy Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
Adams also said, "From the day of the Declaration . . . They [the American people] were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledged as the rules of their conduct."
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Amen
Jesus wasn’t the first person to be heard from after he’d died; there is the story of Saul, Samuel, and the “Witch of Endor” in 1 Samuel and a couple of other bible references and apparently in old-kingdom Egyptian times it was not uncommon. Nonetheless by Jesus’ time it hadn’t been seen in several centuries and people were starting to turn into atheists, without having Chuck Darwin as an excuse.
Ah, Jesus was more than “heard from” after He died. He physically rose again.
He is risen indeed.
One way or another, he DID come back and there were more than enough witnesses to it.
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