Monday, September 10, 2012

"Quote" of the Week

The evidence for our Lord’s life and death and resurrection may be, and often has been, shown to be satisfactory.  It is good, according to the common rules for distinguishing good evidence from bad. 

Thousands and tens of thousands of persons have gone through it piece by piece as carefully as every judge, summing up on a most important cause.  I have, myself, done it many times over, not to persuade others, but to satisfy myself.  I have been used for many years to study the histories of other times and examine and weight the evidence of those who have written about them.

And I know of no one fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fuller evidence of every sort to the understanding of a fair enquirer than the great sign which God has given that Christ died and rose again from the dead.  -Dr. Thomas Arnold, Oxford University