John 20:1–10
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The Christian faith is not a collection of good ideas, a moral philosophy, or a set of spiritual platitudes that we find helpful. It is a historical faith, grounded in a set of audacious claims about things that happened in time and space, to a real person, in a real place. More than that, we are false witnesses, we are still in our sins, and we are, of all people, most to be pitied. The world understands this, which is why it has spent two thousand years concocting alternative theories, no matter how ludicrous, to explain away the evidence. The body was stolen, the disciples hallucinated, Jesus just swooned and was revived by the cool air of the tomb. Any explanation will do, so long as it keeps the dead man dead. But the apostle John, an eyewitness to the events, does not give us a myth.