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It seems I am perpetually divided in my faith or at least the objects of my faith:
(Showing the blue silk): First that there was a historical Jesus.
(Showing the red silk): Second, that He died for me.
(Showing the yellow silk): and finally, third, that if I believe in Him, I can have eternal life in heaven.
Each of these three aspects of the Christian faith has provided a different stumbling block for me. Like Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians: For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. (1Cor 1.22-25)
I want them to be together and to have belief in all three fully ? after all, the reward promises to be great ? eternal life. So what?s the problem?
(Showing blue silk): Was there a real Jesus? Was there a man born of a virgin just as predicted by prophets hundreds of years earlier? Did he perform signs and miracles as described in the Gospels? Did he cure the blind, the lame or those who had leprosy? Would he really have eaten with prostitutes and those people considered unworthy? Could he have brought the dead back to life? And the biggie: was he crucified on a cross, did he die there (as the prophets predicted) and was he resurrected?
These are big questions. To be honest, if any one of the propositions is true, there is plenty of reason to be impressed. I mean bringing a dead man out of his tomb or restoring the life of a small girl are no small feats…
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