SCIENTIST PROVIDES EVIDENCE THAT JESUS ROSE FROM DEAD

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SCIENTIST PROVIDES EVIDENCE THAT JESUS ROSE FROM DEAD

A scientist from the University of Washington in St. Louis, Joshua Swamidass, claims that there is strong evidence to support biblical account that Jesus Christ rose from dead.

“I am a scientist. Yet on Easter I celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the dead some 2,000 years ago. This event is a milestone. In the same way that confident faith in science is tied to evidence, so is the faith I have in resurrection,” he wrote in a 2017 article for Forum Veritas.

The researcher argues that the resurrection of Jesus had a huge impact on history.

“No other event in all of recorded history has reached so far beyond national, ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural, political and geographic boundaries,” he notes.

Swamidass uses the Bible to support his view, claiming that its prophecies predict the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

“These prophecies contain specific details that Jesus and his followers could not control,” the scientist writes.

“For example, before the Romans invented crucifixion, Psalm 22:16 described Jesus’ hands and feet being pierced,” he explains.

He also notes that “Jesus was a real person in history who died,” which is evidence that he did not fake his death.

“Several manuscripts from various sources, including Jewish historians, describe a man named Jesus who lived and was executed,” he points out.

“Specific details about his execution confirm that blood and water poured from a spear wound in his side. He really died, not just unconscious,” he claims.

Swamidass notes that “early resurrection accounts and prophecies predicting them have been reliably transmitted through history.”

A 2017 BBC survey found that one in four Christians in the UK do not believe Jesus has come back to life.

The Reverend Dr Lorraine Cavanagh thinks it may be because adults don’t want to believe in things in the same way they did when they were children in Sunday school.”We’re talking about adults here. And adult faith requires constant questioning, constant reinterpretation, which, by the way, is what the modern Church is really about,” Cavanagh emphasises.

  • Dons Eze

    DONS EZE, PhD, Political Philosopher and Journalist of over four decades standing, worked in several newspaper houses across the country, and rose to the positions of Editor and General Manager. A UNESCO Fellow in Journalism, Dr. Dons Eze, a prolific writer and author of many books, attended several courses on Journalism and Communication in both Nigeria and overseas, including a Postgraduate Course on Journalism at Warsaw, Poland; Strategic Communication and Practical Communication Approach at RIPA International, London, the United Kingdom, among others.

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