The Case For Christ

willing to lay down your life for a belief? How thoroughly would
you investigate a matter if you were going to base your life on
it?
2. What are your most cherished beliefs? What would it take for
you to abandon or radically rethink those treasured opinionsespecially
if you truly believed you were risking the damnation
of your soul if you were wrong? How does your answer relate to
the historical fact that thousands of Jews suddenly abandoned
five key
social and religious structures shortly after the crucifixion of
Jesus? 3. Other than the resurrection of Jesus, can you think of
any explanation that would simultaneously account for all five
categories of evidence that J. P. Moreland discussed? How do you
think someone like him would respond to your hypothesis?
4. Moreland ended his interview by talking about the
experiential test. What would have to happen before you would be
willing to take that step yourself?
For Further Evidence
More Resources on This Topic
Green, Michael. Christ Is Risen: So What? Kent, England:
Sovereign World, 1995.
McDowell, Josh. The Resurrection Factor, 105-20. San Bernardino,
Calif: Here's Life, 1981.
Moreland, J. P. Scaling the Secular City. Grand Rapids: Baker,
1987. Moule, C. F. D. The Phenomenon of the New Testament.
London: SCM Press, 1967.
CONCLUSION:
THE VERDICT OF HISTORY
What Does the Evidence Establish And What Does It Mean Today?
The date was November 8, 1981. It was a Sunday. I locked myself
in my home office and spent the afternoon replaying the spiritual
journey I had been traveling for twenty-one months.
My investigation into Jesus was similar to what you've just read,
except that I primarily studied books and other historical
research instead of personally interacting with scholars. I had
asked questions and analyzed answers with as much of an open mind
as I could muster. Now I had reached critical mass. The evidence
was clear. The one remaining issue was what I would do with it.
Pulling out a legal pad, I began listing the questions I had