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Story after story of miraculous healing. That’s a good description of a two-volume book Craig Keener has written. Keener is a very well respected, mainstream Scripture scholar who, for much of his life, wondered what to make of miracles. He grew up as an atheist and tends, especially as a scholar, to be skeptically minded. So, over the years since he became a Christian and began pursuing biblical scholarship, he’s wondered.
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Years ago, when I was first entertaining the idea that Christianity might be true, I wandered into our local public library and happened upon an article that claimed Jesus never existed. He wasn’t a real historical person but just a myth made up by the early Christians. As I recall, this article was written by a scholar, someone with a Phd. after their name, someone who supposedly knew what they were talking about. So, I didn’t know who to believe. Had I been fooled, along with everyone else who believed in Jesus?
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There’s something I need to address. I’ve addressed it before. But, I keep hearing people repeating this “truism” which, just isn’t true. And, it’s easy enough to show why.
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Not too long ago, I was listening to someone who is involved in a ministry to college kids. He said something that startled me: Before the kids he is trying to share the Gospel with will care whether or not it’s true, they need to be shown why they would want it to be true. Before they will ever listen to the evidence for Christianity, they need to see why it would even be worth the time and energy.
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What did the original cross of Christ actually look like? And how was Jesus placed on the cross? I received these two great questions from someone who is very interested in an accurate representation of the actual Cross.
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In the late 1950’s, the Ford Motor Company designed what it believed was the “car to beat all cars.” In their minds, the Edsel would be found in every driveway in America. It didn’t quite work out that way. The Edsel was a complete sales bust, one of the worst ever recorded.
