Please note that after this week, if you are not a subscriber, you will stop getting emails from me. So subscribe today. We have arrived again at the anniversary of the greatest event in history. Around 1,987 years ago, in a rather routine and inconsequential act for that time, Roman authorities nailed a man to a cross. What happened next is subject to dispute. But since then, most of the world has believed that on the third day, after his execution, the man named Jesus came back to physical life.
Excellent writing of the transition to believing of those 1st hand witness accounts. Amazing that today people believe through the written accounts of the time and faith. Consider yourself in those times, as James or Jude, you had not seen the angel, but did witness miracles. Still questioning whether the amazing things you had seen and claims were true, until you see your brother walking and talking with you and others, bearing the wounds of his death, after witnessing his dead body in a tomb. Enough to convince the hardest of hearts, and most stubborn. Saul, himself, became a hardened believer, not by the miracles performed, but by the first hand meeting of the dead man. Changing from persecutor to persecuted. The story and logical method of presentation that you use in this writing is really well done. JESUS is our Lord, and today is the symbolic celebration of the beginning of the 3 days of ultimate proof that HE IS who HE SAYS HE IS. (present tense and emphasis intentional).
Thanks Erick, for your continuous dedication to disseminating the truth, both in the telling of JESUS's story and the politics of today.
Can you post a link to the playlist Erick? Couldn’t catch it when you mentioned it earlier on the show
Excellent writing of the transition to believing of those 1st hand witness accounts. Amazing that today people believe through the written accounts of the time and faith. Consider yourself in those times, as James or Jude, you had not seen the angel, but did witness miracles. Still questioning whether the amazing things you had seen and claims were true, until you see your brother walking and talking with you and others, bearing the wounds of his death, after witnessing his dead body in a tomb. Enough to convince the hardest of hearts, and most stubborn. Saul, himself, became a hardened believer, not by the miracles performed, but by the first hand meeting of the dead man. Changing from persecutor to persecuted. The story and logical method of presentation that you use in this writing is really well done. JESUS is our Lord, and today is the symbolic celebration of the beginning of the 3 days of ultimate proof that HE IS who HE SAYS HE IS. (present tense and emphasis intentional).
Thanks Erick, for your continuous dedication to disseminating the truth, both in the telling of JESUS's story and the politics of today.
Erick, just wanted to express thanks for your continuing work in the Lord. Been particularly good recently.
Blessings, brother.
I have really enjoyed your columns this week Erick - very thought provoking and enlightening. Thank you!
What are the “extra-Biblical” sources you mention for Jesus’ brothers accepting him as the Christ and of Jude being his brother?
Start with Eusebius’s History of the Church. Follow his sourcing.
Thanks, and thanks for answering.