Do not doubt – He is risen, indeed!

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3136 Edition

April 2~8, 2012

Editorial

Do not doubt – He is risen, indeed!

Translated by Lydia Ma

Easter Sunday marks the day when Jesus rose from the dead after dying on the 
cross to save the world. Jesus’ resurrection and his appearing to many people 
are recorded in the gospels of Mark and John and later supported by the 
testimony of the apostle Paul (see 1 Corinthians 15:14-17). Rev. Dr. David 
Wesley Soper, a 20th century Methodist pastor in the U.S.A, once said that 
Jesus’ resurrection pulled back the curtain between heaven and earth and 
afforded us a peek at what life after death looks like.

Lee Strobel, a former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune was a 
professional journalist specializing in investigative reporting before he 
became a Christian. As an expert on judicial cases, he emphasized on the 
importance of in court cases and deemed mere personal convictions as 
inadmissible, insufficient and unconvincing proofs. Though many people had 
shared the gospel with Strobel over the years, he refused to believe because he 
thought these people had no evidence to back their claims. 

When Strobel’s wife accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior one day, he was 
greatly perturbed and feared that his wife would turn into a narrow-minded 
legalist. To his surprise, his wife’s personality changed for the better and 
she became more optimistic and self-confident than ever before. Ever the 
inquisitive journalist, Strobel began to investigate Jesus’ resurrection as he 
would investigate a court case through mechanisms normally used in court 
proceedings, including the use of eye witnesses, formal documents, 
circumstantial evidences, counter-evidences, medical evidences, scientific 
studies, and even fingerprints. He also talked with 13 internationally renowned 
Bible scholars in person.

After 2 years of extensive investigations, Strobel concluded to his surprise 
that Jesus’ resurrection was neither a myth nor a superstition, but rather a 
historical fact. Deeply impacted by his findings, Strobel not only accepted 
Christ but also became a devout Christian. His journey to uncover the truth for 
himself later became a best-selling Christian apologetics book titled The Case 
for Christ.

Strobel’s initial goal in investigating Jesus’ resurrection was to uncover the 
truth. If Jesus’ resurrection were an hoax, he would lay out all evidences he’d 
found and counter one of the central claims of Christianity as a fallacy. To 
his surprise, he discovered after extensive investigation that Christ’s 
resurrection was indeed true, came to Christ, and then wrote The Case for 
Christ, which has become a Christian apologetics classic. 

In The Case for Christ, Strobel wrote that in the process of investigating 
whether the resurrection was true, he had put aside all personal prejudices, 
researched many books , asked many questions, delved into historical and 
archaeological evidences, and read the Bible from cover-to-cover for the first 
time in his life. He underscored that never before had he been as focused in 
uncovering the truth behind a case.

We can be thankful on this Easter that through the power of Jesus’ 
resurrection, not only did Christ achieve salvation for us, but also 
demonstrated God’s incomparable love toward us. Jesus’ death and resurrection 
are the foundations of Christianity – freeing us from the slavery of sin and 
cementing our hope for everlasting life.

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