I hope this Sunday that everyone takes the time to actually think about what they're celebrating: that 30-40 years after a Jewish criminal was put to a deserved death, some guy from Tarsus named Saul started spreading the word that not only was this Jewish criminal born of a virgin, but that after his death, on this very day, he was resurrected and rose bodily to heaven.
In addition, that is, not only was this criminal born of a virgin(!), not only did he come back to life and ascend somewhere in the sky(!), but he is also the father, son, and holy spirit of himself! Who comes up with this nonsense!?
Can you imagine how fast you, personally, would dismiss somebody in 2007 if they came bearing the same fantastic stories? What gives anyone the idea that in an age where plumbing was non-existent, the flu was still considered a curse, the light bulb was 1,800 years away, and the earth was still both flat and the center of the universe that these stories were absolutely nothing more than superstitious mythology?
Can anyone account for this seemingly impossible scenario?
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