Y , Ph.D. by Wallace Emerson
S ome facts are so significant that without them a whole series of events seem pointless. Such a fact is the resurrection of our Lord. The Resurrection of Our Lord — Is It a Fact? Many today hail the resurrection of Christ as a fact, but when inquiries are made as to what it is that is risen from the dead, we find strangely enough, it is not the bodily resurrection of Christ to which they refer, but the resurrection of the soul or the spirit. They think that Christian doctrine is satisfied, and that mankind has a proper and an authoritative hope for a general resurrec
tion of the just, if we admit the spiritual resurrection of Christ. They do not realize perhaps that a spiritual res urrection may, or may not be, a fact. Certainly it is not a fact upon which can be built any solid body of thinking. It may be a hope, a conjecture, a desire of the heart, but certainly not a fact, in that it is a demonstra ble actuality. The Body of Jesus Musi Be Disposed Of The most meaningful fact in the series of facts men tioned by the Gospel writers, and by the alleged explan ations, is this: If Jesus did not rise in the body, then the body was somewhere available to the malice of His
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