Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

True Christianity believes and teaches that the Messiah, promised by the prophets to Israel and through her to the world, did indeed come to earth in the manner and precise time foretold, was rejected by the Roman authorities, the Jewish religious hierarchy, and His own people, was crucified for the sins of the world, and was resurrected the third day, as the prophets declared and as history records.

History verifies the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ? Of course it does. Even the resurrection? Can any educated person today believe that? The evidence is overwhelming. Lord Lyndhurst, one of the greatest legal minds in British history, declared, “I know pretty well what evidence is; and I tell you, such evidence as that for the Resurrection has never broken down yet” (Wilber M. Smith, Therefore, Stand [Baker Book House, 1965], 425, 584). Simon Greenleaf, co-founder of Harvard’s Graduate School of Law, as an agnostic, came to the same conclusion after careful examination and became a fervent Christian. He wrote a book, The Testimony of the Evangelists, addressed to his colleagues in the legal profession, challenging them to face the evidence. Sir Robert Anderson, head of the Criminal Investigation Division of Scotland Yard, added his testimony to the truth of the resurrection, as did many eminent scientists and historians too numerous to quote here.  Professor Thomas Arnold, who held the chair of Modern History at Oxford University, wrote: “I have been used for many years to study the histories of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence of those who have written about them, and I know of no one fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fuller evidence of every sort, to the understanding of a fair inquirer, than the great sign which God hath given us that Christ died and rose again from the dead” (Professor Thomas Arnold, Sermons on the Christian Life [Simon and Schuster, 1944], 324.”