Is Jesus the only way of salvation?

We address this question in the last podcast and you establish from scripture that the

answer is yes, that there's no salvation without embracing Christ as the one who died

for our sins and rose again.

So the logical follow-up question then is this, Pastor John, how do we know if Jesus was

for real?

Right, I will, let me give you three ways to approach this and I choose these three

because they are all relevant for me.

And I know that there are more paths into a warranted, justified confidence in the Bible

and in Christ as a true Savior and the Bible as a true witness than these three.

But these are the three that have had the greatest impact on me.

First, the Apostle Paul treated the resurrection of Jesus as a compelling warrant for believing

what Jesus said.

In Acts 17, he says, God commands all people everywhere to repent because he is fixed

a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he appointed of

this.

He has given assurance to all by raising him from the death.

So Paul treated the resurrection as the means by which God gave the world assurance.

My son incarnate was speaking the truth.

My son in dying for sins was vindicated by his resurrection.

And then you add to that, in verse 15, Paul argues to his leaders, and that's often

included, that they could actually, these first readers could actually confirm this claim

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