April 26, 2020 · Acts 4:2

Resurrection Rejection

They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

“This would be a number of mass hallucinations. So let me just answer some of this rejection — this idea of the physical resurrection of Christ being outlandish and a fairy tale. "Why would you ever believe in such a silly thing?" Well, Lee Strobel — if you ever have a chance to, I recommend the book called The Case for Christ. And Lee Strobel was an atheist, a journalist who was an investigative reporter, who specialized in this type of thing. His wife became a Christian, and he himself got really upset about this. He was one of those guys who responded with the furious to this idea. He wasn't curious; he was furious. And so he decided he was going to prove his wife wrong, and he would investigate this like he would any other kind of claim that he would report in the newspapers. And so he went about it, and the more he researched it, slowly this atheist turns into a theist, and eventually turns into a Christian believer in the resurrection of Jesus. It's a great story. There's a movie, actually, called The Case of Christ, so you can check that out as well. But let me give you some of the things that he points to. One of the points to respond to this idea is that there are very early accounts of the Christian faith in this. So a lot of times what you hear is the idea of resurrection kind of grew over time, and it was kind of something that grew in the Christian church, and eventually it's something accepted.”