Believable
My friend at the gym went on,” But do you know that only a third of the world population is Christian? I said, “It started with Jesus, and only 12 men! Today, the impact of Christ is global and continues to grow. Jesus Christ is a Divine mystery; he was born of a woman, yet he created all women and men. He is hard to fully understand. You can understand Mohammed. He lived, he died and his bones are still upon the earth. We can understand Buddha. Born a man but said his father was an elephant with six trunks and that there was no way to find God. He died in 400 BC. But Jesus! This manual labourer who walked with dirty feet, calloused hands, and a rough village accent is, in fact, the Being who has existed from all eternity. He is the Holy One who hurled all the galaxies into being. Yet He came to earth.
Evidence of Messianic prophecy. The Old Testament contains over 300 predictions about the Messiah from His birth to His death and resurrection, all written centuries before Jesus arrived. The odds of one person fulfilling even eight of these is 1 in 10¹⁷. That’s like covering New Zealand in coins five metres deep, marking one, blindfolding someone, dropping them anywhere in N.Z. and expecting them to pick the marked coin on the first try.
Evidence of Jesus Christ. Jesus was God in the flesh, so He is the ultimate proof of God. He has more attested evidence than any Caesar. Jesus acted in ways only God can. Jesus commanded demons, seas, storms and diseases to go, and they did. He commanded eyes to see, the lame to walk, and fig trees to wither. He walks on water and raises people from the dead. Jesus made statements that only God can make. He promised forgiveness of sins and resurrection to eternal life to all who will trust in Him.
Resurrection evidence. Eventually, He died on the cross to pay for our sins. The people who saw Jesus die later found His tomb empty. This tomb was impenetrable and guarded. “Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed”. John 20:8. Seeing Jesus resurrected transformed the disciples into men willing to live and die for the Truth. The global Church remains evidence and the only religion not founded by dead men.
Personal Evidence. The greatest evidence is the fact that many millions of people around the world, from Iran to the New Guinea highlands to the streets of New York, have met Him and been changed by him. If God is real, we should encounter Him. And we do. I wasn’t looking for Him or expecting Him to notice me when He touched me. While camping. I met some young people who talked about a Saviour who loved me. I cried for hours in my tent. God speaks, God heals and cynics become worshippers. I’ve seen God transform marriages, free the addicted and deliver those bound by demons.
Friends, you might argue with theories and philosophies. But you cannot argue with a God who shows up. None of this is self-help, but the power of a risen and present God. It is all totally believable, so come on, believe! The Bible says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved! Acts 16:31