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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, a vicar in the Church of England. In the 1970s, an investigative journalist for the Chicago Tribune
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was very frustrated to discover his wife had become a Christian. So he set out to disprove the resurrection of Jesus Christ
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His approach was spot on. The Bible itself says that if Jesus wasn't raised
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the whole faith comes crashing down. So he deployed his journalistic skills by conducting
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detailed interviews with a series of experts in the fields of medical science, psychology
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archaeology, manuscripts, etc. In the end, far from disproving the resurrection, he became convinced of it himself. Today, millions have read the book that resulted
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from those interviews, The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. There is no single slam dunk proof
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for the resurrection of Jesus Christ but there are dozens of bits of evidence that build the case for Christ I wouldn be convinced by any single one of them but I am persuaded by their cumulative weight
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One of these small bits of evidence is the fact that the first reported witness of the resurrected
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Jesus was a woman, Mary Magdalene. In that culture, the testimony of women was so demeaned
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it wasn't even admissible in court. So the idea that these accounts were invented to propagate a
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myth, well there are lots of problems with that idea, but here's just one. To make a woman your
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primary witness would undermine your cause. So why did all the gospel authors say the first witness
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was a woman? The best explanation is because that's what happened and they were telling the truth
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Not a slam dunk, but one small piece in the case for Christ
