Evidence for the Cross and Resurrection

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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God has not left us without evidence for the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. But evidence alone will never open the eyes of the blind.

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0:00.0	Welcome back. This new week on the podcast starts off by wrapping up a bundle of recent apologetics
0:09.3	questions on the person and work of Christ. We recently looked at six reasons why Jesus had to
0:14.6	leave Earth after Easter. Imagine life on Earth if Christ was still here with us. He's not. Why not?
0:22.2	That was APJ 1978. Then we looked at why didn't Jesus have to pay eternally for our sins? Isn't that
0:28.9	the cost eternal judgment? So why was His suffering cut so short? That was APJ 1979.
0:37.2	And then we looked at even if the Christian faith is untrue, if the Cross and Resurrection didn't
0:41.9	happen, aren't Christians still happier than non-Christians in this life? Don't our present
0:48.0	life priorities make for a more fulfilling experience of this life than the non-Christian seeking
0:53.3	their joy in this world, even if we're wrong? That was APJ 1977. And related to that one comes
1:00.8	today's question. Why don't we have more artifacts, more archaeology, or even a more diversified record
1:08.3	of historical documents to corroborate the death and resurrection of Christ? Shouldn't we have more?
1:16.2	The question is from a listener named Terry Paschujan. Hello to you. My question for you is why in
1:20.6	this age it remains so easy for non-believers to refute the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus?
1:27.5	If God controls everything, why is the existence of Jesus and His crucifixion not made more
1:34.0	undeniable? People can so easily say that the events of the Bible are not real. Why did God not
1:40.4	orchestrate it so that there were more witnesses, more archaeological evidence, more handwritten
1:46.5	accounts? Why did He seem to leave so much room for doubt? Paschujan, how would you respond to Terry?
1:54.1	I have two main responses to this question. The first is that historically speaking,
2:03.6	the text of the New Testament, the Greek text of the New Testament, which is the written accounts
2:11.3	of 1st century witnesses to Christ is spectacularly reliable. That's number one. I'll come back to
2:19.8	explain why I'm in it. Second, the obstacles that hinder warranted belief, justifiable belief
2:32.0	in the truth of those 1st century testimonies are the same obstacles that people experienced
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