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(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Believing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not a matter of blind, irrational faith. As an event in history, it has more historical documentation than other famous events and people.

The Greek poet Homer lived around the time of Jesus, and wrote the Iliad. There are about 1800 manuscripts of it remaining today. As witness to the life and teachings of Jesus, there are about 25,000 manuscripts in existence today.

The ancient Roman poet Virgil lived around the time of Jesus. The copies of his writing which we have today were written four centuries after he lived. But the life and teachings of Jesus which we have today are first-hand accounts by apostles Matthew and John, written within a generation or two of Jesus himself.

These are examples of the historical reliability of the Christian writings. The Apostle Paul believed Christ rose from death and he preached it.

Is it important to Christianity? Yes it is, as Paul wrote to the believers in Corinth:

"If Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe."

Happy Easter!

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