Prove it

Its been a week since Jesus died. Your friends are telling you, nono, he's not dead, we promise. 

'He's alive, we saw him.' You kind of give them an awkward smile, and nod, while inwardly rolling your eyes. Pretending to believe them, you just put up with their story. Finally, when they refuse to stop, probably because they can sense your resentment, you give up. You ask for proof.  Finally ... there is silence.

For those of you who don't know the story of Thomas 'The Doubter,' thats pretty much how it goes. It's been a week since Jesus died, and the disciples have seen him, but Thomas misses out, and when he returns the disciples are all like: '"We have seen the Lord!” But he [Thomas] said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."' (John 20:25)

He wants proof, and in so many ways, I believe the world today is full of mini-Thomas's. They just need proof, then they'll believe. And the same happens to Thomas as happens to many people today; Jesus provides that proof.

Once Jesus appears again, he says 'to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”' (John 20:27) As if thats not enough proof for him.

Jesus does exactly the same to some of the biggest doubters today. Take Lee Strobel - he was an atheist who claimed for  to be 'too smart' for God. But then when he looked deeper into it, the facts astonished him. All of history lined up with Jesus. In his own words he said: 
'I just realized that in light of this torrent of evidence that points so powerfully towards Christianity, it would have required more faith to retain my atheism than to become a Christian. Because to maintain my atheism I would have had to defy the evidence.' 


Now on the other side of thing, Benjamin Franklin said: "To see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." But, when we look at the incredible amount of evidence for Jesus (Lee Strobel's managed to fill a number of books with it, well worth a read), we begin to see how wrong Benjamin Franklin really is.

Ask any reliable, unbiased historian, and I am completely confident that they can tell you Jesus Christ existed, that he taught radical teachings, and it was said he performed miraculous feats. Look up Lee Strobel's story. 

Prove it, you say. It is done. Discover for yourself, the evidence is startling.