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[Brian]

I dont know what to do about this. I think about it every day. I guess the problem is that I dont think there is a God.

[jimwalton]

Good question. It all goes back to the resurrection of Jesus. People can look up and think, "I think there's somethin' or somebody UP there." And someone else can say, "Nah, don't be stupid." And who's to know, eh? Back in the olden days, people could say, "Well, our God is Jehovah," and somebody else could say, "Well, ours is 'Baal'." Again, who's right, and who's stupid? Who could ever say? 'Cause sometimes prayers got answered, and most of the time they didn't. And sometimes good people went through bad trash, and bad people were rich and famous and powerful. Was there a God? No way to tell.

Then Jesus came on the scene. Big deal—lots of people had come on the scene making big claims. Anybody can say anything they want, right? But then he started doing stuff nobody else could do: healing BLIND people (something doctors can't even do today), feeding thousands at a pop, and people started going, "Um, who are you?" Nicodemus, in John 3.1 even said, "Man, nobody does stuff like do unless there's a God." But again, others thought he was just a quack, and others accused him of being demon possessed. Who can win this game?

But then he upped the ante. "OK, I'll prove it to you boys. They're gonna kill me, and then I'll come back from the dead all by myself. Do you think that'll do it for you? And if I do that, then it PROVES there is a God, and I'm him. Are you with me?" Nobody paid much attention. It was a ridiculous claim. Nobody can do that.

But then he stinkin' DID it. Brian, it's the only thing we have to hang on to. If Jesus didn't come back from the dead, who knows if there's a God, or which one is right, or yadda yadda yadda. We're all just stupid and delusional. BUT, if Jesus came back from the dead, well that speaks pretty loudly in MY book because that's WAY beyond human stuff. That PROVES to me there's a God, and Jesus is him, and then I gotta take it from there.