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Christopher Merola 4-1-18

What Do They Each Have In Common? Isaac Newton, called the greatest physicist ever Blaise Pascal, famous French mathematician Louis Pasteur, famous scientist -- Pasteurization Nicolaus Copernicus, great Polish astronomer Galileo Galilei, great Italian astronomer Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer William Shakespeare, called the greatest writer ever George Washington, father of the USA Abraham Lincoln, great abolitionist who ended slavery Martin Luther King, Civil Rights -- Fought Segregation

Lord Charles Darling, Former Chief Justice of Great Britain s High Court: There exists such overwhelming evidence, positive and negative, factual and circumstantial, that no intelligent jury in the world could fail to bring in a verdict that the resurrection story is true!

Dr. Simon Greenleaf, founder of Harvard Law School Authored a three-volume set called, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, (1842) which is still, after all these years, considered to be the greatest single authority on evidence in the entire history of legal procedure. A former atheist who was challenged by his law students to refute the Bible and prove it false. He investigated and became a Christian.

Famous Atheists That Became Christians After Viewing The Evidence CS Lewis, Professor, Writer at Oxford & Cambridge Lee Stroebel, Journalist & Harvard Law School J Warner Wallace, famous Cold Case Detective Josh McDowell, best selling author Lew Wallace, Union officer during the Civil War, wrote the book, Ben-Hur

Frank Turek Non-Christians Confirm NT and Jesus

The New Testament Validity Is Obvious The New Testament was written in the lifetime of the writers they were eyewitnesses of the events in the Bible; corroborated by the secular sources The New Testament contains over 140 historically accurate details. No other religious book can claim this.

Why Trust In The Bible vs Other Religious Books? The entire Bible contains thousands of prophecies that have been fulfilled and are continuing to be fulfilled. No other religious book on Earth has a single fulfilled prophecy. Jesus fulfilled all 353 Old Testament prophecies. The odds are Billions to 1 that it was an accident.

Jesus Is Not A Fake Messiah The Messiah had to fulfill ALL 353 OT prophecies. Just one unfulfilled prophecy would mean he was not the Messiah. Before he was even born, a fake Messiah would have to ensure that he was related to Kind David.

Jesus Not A Fake Messiah Continued While a baby in his mother s womb, a fake Messiah would have had to make his parents go the Bethlehem and give birth to him. As a newborn baby, a fake Messiah would have had to convince shepherds and wise men to visit him and worship him as king.

More Of Jesus Not A Fake Messiah A fake Messiah would have to convince the Jewish leaders to condemn him to death and the Romans to crucify him. A fake Messiah would have to convince the Romans not to break a single one of his bones while on the cross.

JP Moreland, PhD, American Philosopher, Theologian Now a rabbi named Jesus appears from a lower-class region. He teaches for three years, gathers a following of lower and middle-class people, gets in trouble with the authorities, and gets crucified But five weeks after he s crucified, over ten thousand Jews are following him and claiming that he is the initiator of a new religion. And get this: they re willing to give up or alter all five of the social institutions that they have been taught since childhood...

Turek - Impact Events Are Not Easily Forgotten

Put out of the synagogue; they could not sacrifice animals for their sins. They would die in sin and go to Hell unless Jesus was the Passover Lamb. The Disciples: Risking Too Much To Be False Giving up on their Jewish customs and religion, over 1000 years old, was very difficult and cost them everything. They lost their reputations, their families, they were shunned, beaten, flogged, tortured and eventually killed.

James, the brother of Jesus, thought he was crazy. He tried to take Jesus away. Then he becomes a Christian and is persecuted and dies. Too Much Of A Transformation To Be Fake The disciples of Jesus went from scared victims in hiding, to extremely bold and fearless witnesses. Paul (Saul of Tarsus), went from hating Christians and killing them to being a bold Christian who was persecuted himself.

If The Disciples Accidently. Went to the wrong tomb: Then the Jewish leaders and the Romans also went to the wrong tomb. The disciples hallucinated that Jesus rose: then all 515 people who witnessed a risen Jesus also hallucinated; just need 1 witness to testify. The disciples and others saw Jesus multiple times in different places. They spoke with him, heard him speak, they ate with him and touched him.

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