President George Washington, as a boy, cut down a cherry tree. Fact-checking has determined he in fact did not. Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after death by crucifixion. Fact-checking has determined that in fact he did. Now a concession....people generally don’t come back to life days after dying. The case of Jesus of Nazareth evidence, when examined and cross-examined, leads one setting aside their own bias to a verdict “oh yes he did”.

This might be challenging some blog readers thinking, so apropos to double-down: The resurrection created the New Testament (NT) writers, not vice versa. Stated another way, there were thousands of Christians on earth preceding the NT being written. Christianity would exist today, twenty centuries later, even if the NT was never written. That’s how diverse a group saw the resurrected Jesus. Easter Sunday would still be Easter Sunday.

Being on a roll why not triple-down: It’s been roughly two millennium with scholars attempting a (fill in the blank) exercise. This one....Jesus was not raised from the dead. What really happened was ___(fill in the blank)___. Each/every hypothesis, and there’s no shortage, has been debunked by the facts/scholarship. The facts or evidence submitted isn’t exclusively from Christian sources, non-Christian sources comprise some of the admitted evidence on the side of the resurrection.

Paul (Saul pre-conversion) wrote...And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless (1 Corinthians 15:17). Christianity is I believe, fyi, the only testable religion. He (Jesus) rose it’s valid. He (Jesus) didn’t it’s invalid. Happy Easter everyone. He is risen, Alleluia! [Books read of-late; Raised on the Third Day, W. David Beck & Michael R. Licona - 2020, and Evidence for the Historical Jesus, Gary R. Habermas - 2020]