Benjamin Dean, Author at Great Truths

Author: Benjamin Dean

13. The Day the Week Changed and Why There is a Church at All

Two pieces of evidence for the resurrection get overlooked almost entirely. One is a calendar. The other is the existence of Christianity itself.

12. The Witnesses Nobody Would Have Invented

Two features of the resurrection appearances carry more evidential weight than they’re usually given. One concerns who saw Jesus first. The other concerns what kind of encounters these were.

11. Fourteen Times, to Hundreds of People

The empty tomb, taken alone, doesn’t conclusively demonstrate the resurrection.

10. The Body Was Never Produced

All four Gospel accounts of Christ’s resurrection begin the same way: the tomb was discovered empty.

9. The Best Explanation of the Known Facts

Part of the importance of history is that the future is determined by things that have happened. Based on what took place in the past, it’s possible to know something about the future state of the world and of human life.

8. Only Omnipotence Will Do

The resurrection of Christ could have no natural explanation or human cause. It is inexplicable without relation to God.

7. Why Resurrection Is Hard to Believe

Christ’s resurrection is an essential matter of faith. Together with his death it sits at the very heart of biblical belief in God — and without it, Christian teaching loses its identity and meaning.

6. Not Brought Back — Brought Through

The Body Jesus Rose In

With Jesus raised, the nature of resurrection itself became clear — and the difference from every earlier case is decisive.

5. A New Kind of Event

What Actually Happened to Jesus’ Body

The resurrection of Jesus is not an abstract idea or theory. It is a real, bodily, historical, datable event — at the time widely witnessed, publicly visible, objectively verifiable (1 Cor 15:5-8).

4. Nobody Should Have Been Surprised

Resurrection in the Old Testament

Jesus explained that his suffering and entry into glory was clearly implied and ‘necessary’ in ‘Moses and all the prophets … and all the Scriptures’ (Luke 24:26-27).

3. The Hinge

Why Everything Depends on the Resurrection

The dominance of Jesus’ resurrection in biblical thought cannot be overstated. Of all ‘the great things’ to be said about the Saviour, that he was raised is ‘the central one’.

2. The Appalling Certainty

Why Resurrection Has to Begin With Death

‘What is to become of us?’ There are two sides to the question: what is to become of us individually, and what is to become of us collectively, as a species.

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