"Quote" of the Week

"A little over two years ago, a reporter put a crucial question to the then Anglican Archbishop of Perth.  The reporter asked, 'If we discovered the tomb of Jesus, and could somehow prove that the remains in the tomb were Jesus’ remains, what would that do to your faith?' The Archbishop replied that it wouldn’t do anything to his faith: Jesus Christ has risen in his heart.  The apostle Paul understands the issues with much more straightforward clarity: if Christ has not risen, your faith is futile (1 Cor 15:17). In other words, part of the validation of faith is the truthfulness of faith’s object—in this case, Jesus’ resurrection. If Jesus has not risen, they can believe it ‘till the cows come home, but it is still a futile belief that makes them look silly: they “are to be pitied more than all men'" (15:17).  –D.A. Carson