Many today ridicule the Bible for supposedly being a book of fairy tales. This Easter, we should remember that Scripture is trustworthy.

From CBN News. Much of the world takes time to honor the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday, Christ’s death on the cross on Good Friday, and His resurrection from the dead on Easter Sunday. But others wonder if the Messiah is real and the Bible true. Well, do you doubt Julius Caesar existed? Or all the ancient philosophers of Greece? The truth is that there is much more proof Jesus Christ existed. …

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Alex McFarland is a leading Christian apologist. If you’re wondering, that doesn’t mean he apologizes for the faith. It means he defends Christ’s history and shows why you can trust it. To get there, he first explains the four kinds of testimony historians desire:

“They want eyewitness testimony. They want multiple testimon[ies]. They want early testimony. And the fourth is hostile testimony,” McFarland told CBN News.

The Gospels: both Early & Eyewitness Testimony From Multiple Sources

As for eyewitness and early, the Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are by men who either knew Jesus in the flesh or got their facts from eyewitnesses like Mary, the mother of Jesus, and others. Saint Paul’s epistles are written by a man who encountered the resurrected Christ.

“We have got the Gospels coming to us less than 10 years after the cross,” this leader of Truth for a New Generation pointed out. …

Talk of Christ from Ancient Non-Christians is Plentiful 

As for hostile testimony — or at least not pro-Christian — many outside sources wrote of this Jesus.

McFarland said these sources wrote of, “‘A worker of wonders,’ did miracles, claimed to be God, crucified at Passover: the core facts of the Gospel – death, deity, and resurrection – just based on ancient Jewish, Greek, and Roman sources that certainly were no friend to the burgeoning Church. … ”

You Don’t Doubt Aristotle or Caesar Really Lived

McFarland suggested Durant would say if we reject those Gospels, “We would also have to reject a hundred other ancient names, the authenticity of which no historian would dream of questioning – Aristotle, Julius Caesar – people we don’t have as much evidence for as we do for Jesus. … ”

Hard Evidence for Physical Events at Christ’s Birth & Death

In The Star of Bethlehem documentary, Larson found there really was a light in the heavens that guided the Wise Men to baby Jesus. It was even shown on coins made at the time.

The Lord of Heaven & Earth

The Christ Quake [documentary] shows Larson’s crew finding in ground once covered by the Dead Sea the geologic ripples of the gigantic earthquake that split rocks at the very hour of Jesus’s death. …

Science that Backs Up What Matthew Described

Larson asserted, “And for both star of Bethlehem and for the quake at the cross, the facts we find – hard, scientific facts we find – are consistent with the record in Matthew. … ”

As for the written record, remember the hundreds of ancient copies of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and the dozens of Caesars’ biographies? Many more manuscripts of the New Testament exist. …

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(Excerpt from CBN News. Photo Credit: Myriam Zilles on Unsplash)