Love Truth Blog

Read through the four Gospels in the New Testament, and the main take away you get from each is this: Jesus died, He rose again, and He is Lord. This is what Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wanted to get across to their readers. The reality of these things make or break authentic Christianity. The denial of these things separates the sheep and the goats, believer and unbeliever, Christian and pagan. You can get into a comparative religion conversation and talk volumes about the way Jesus sided with the poor and taught unparalleled wisdom, but get ready for some controversy if you dare speak of Christ death, resurrection and Lordship. Islam, for example, rejects the very idea that Jesus died upon the cross, and to affirm Jesus is Lord in the sense of being God incarnate is an unthinkable sin. Atheists likewise would never think the historical Jesus was God incarnate who resurrected from the dead. The problem is this: all the evidence weighs in favor of the testimonial of the New Test...

The Roman spear tip went through the side of the torso piercing through the pericardium and into the heat, confirming the condemned was truly dead. No tricks. Nothing staged. Jesus died upon the cross. This is the grand anticlimax to the Four Gospels of the Bible wherein Israel’s long awaited Christ was put to death upon the cross during the rule of Pontius Pilate. The agony of a slow death through crucifixion was just a part of the sufferings Jesus endured. Blood filled sweat as the Son prayed to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Denied by Peter, Abandoned by the rest of the Twelve, Rejected by the religious leaders along with many others in Jerusalem who wanted nothing to do with the sort of messiah in the likes of Jesus of Nazareth.   Mock, beaten and scourged. Surprisingly, this was part of God’s plan all along. No sooner after Peter declared Jesus to be the Christ that the Lord began to teach the disciples “that t...