Christ’s Resurrection: Fact or Myth?
by Glen on 2001-04-15 00:05:40
Jesus again stood trial this past weekend. Agape Press
reports that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hosted a
mock trial considering whether the resurrection of Jesus
was a literal event.
Religious liberty advocate Thomas Monaghan told the
jurists the testimony of those who saw Jesus after the
resurrection is the most compelling evidence for the risen
Lord. “Then they turn around and they die in coliseums,
they die on crosses, they die at the chopping block,
professing that faith,” Monaghan said. ACLU advocate Bruce
Fein argued against the literal resurrection, saying that
“the idea that Jesus died for all of our sins is more
central and … could have occurred without him being
resurrected.”
The fictitious assumption is that a lower court found
the veracity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
unconvincing. Throughout the arguments, the judges
interrupted the advocates with questions of their own, such
as: Is not the resurrection the absolute core of the New
Testament?
Three organizations, The Ten Commandments Project,
Faith and Action and the National Clergy Council,
co-sponsored the Capitol Hill Easter season program on
April 6.
(Agape Press: