The evidence stands

After I Corinthians 15:3-6, 20-26

A phrase: according to the Scriptures,

a phrase we might ignore or

we’ve seen it so many times we pay

scant attention. But the phrase

stands there, refusing to be ignored,

because it was according to the Scriptures

that he died for our sins, and it was

according to the Scriptures that

he was buried and rose again. Scriptures

were the testimony, the evidence.

And the witnesses: the women

at the tomb, Peter and John and

the eleven as a group, and then

the five hundred. They all saw,

they touched, they were touched,

it was him, not a lookalike

or a poser but him, his voice,

his flesh, his spirit, his heart,

him there among them.

The evidence:

according to the Scriptures,

according to the witnesses.

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