• All The Evidence  PRO

  Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2005 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Matthew 28:1-15, 1 Corinthians 15:14-20, Luke 24:13-27

  Tags:  Apologetics Jesus, Easter Resurrection

ALL THE EVIDENCE

Professor Thomas Arnold, for 14 years a headmaster of Rugby, author of the famous, History of Rome, and appointed to the chair of modern history at Oxford, was well acquainted with the value of evidence in determining historical facts. This great scholar said:

"I have been used for many years to study the histories of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence of those who have written about them, and I know of no one fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fuller evidence of every sort, to the understanding of a fair inquirer, than the great sign which God hath given us that Christ died and rose again from the dead."

Brooke Foss Westcott, an English scholar, said: "raking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no historic incident better or more variously supported