The Resurrection

To celebrate Easter I thought that I would post a few things that people have said about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ:

I claim to be an historian. My approach to Classics is historical. And I tell you that the evidence for the life, the death, and the resurrection of Christ is better authenticated than most of the facts of ancient history. -E. M. Blaiklock (Professor of Classics, Auckland University)

I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. -Jesus of Nazareth

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb. -Josh McDowell

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge. -Simon Greenleaf

The empty tomb, and not the manger of Bethlehem, is the earthly symbol of the great birth upon which Christianity is founded. -Sir Robert Anderson

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection. -Billy Graham

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. -Hans Urs von Balthasar

The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. -R.A. Torrey