Teh teh teh!
Unang'ang'ania kiingereza cha nini wakati unajua hukijui?
ISAYA 56:
10 Walinzi wake ni vipofu, wote pia hawana maarifa; wote ni mbwa walio bubu, hawawezi kulia; huota ndoto, hulala, hupenda usingizi.
11 Naam, mbwa hao wana choyo sana, hawashibi kamwe; NA HAO NI WACHUNGAJI WASIOWEZA KUFAHAMU NENO; wote pia wamegeuka upande, wazifuate njia zao wenyewe, kila mmoja kwa faida yake, toka pande zote.
Kajipange upya MPAGANI!
The Christians were mistaken about
Jesus' resurrection
by Matt Slick
Sometimes critics of Christianity say that Jesus ' disciples were
mistaken about His resurrection . They say that because no one can
rise from the dead, then the disciples were wrong when they said
that Jesus rose from the dead. First of all, they are assuming
something that may not be true. After all, if there is a God , then
why can't a resurrection happen? But, when I ask them to explain
how it was possible to be mistaken about something like a person
rising from the dead according to the gospel accounts, I don't get
any answers except, "Well, they were wrong."
It is true that the disciples made mistakes. After all, they were only
human. But, how could they be mistaken about something as
serious and as monumental as Jesus rising from the dead? Is it
likely that they simply goofed, that somehow after seeing Jesus die
on the cross, and after fleeing and going into hiding, that the figure
that appeared before them in the closed room that looked like Jesus
and sounded like Jesus and had holes in His hands and feet really
wasn't Jesus? Were the women who saw the empty tomb also
mistaken when they looked into it and saw that the body wasn't
there? Was the apostle John mistaken when he said that Jesus
appeared before Thomas and said, "Reach here your finger, and see
My hands; and reach here your hand, and put it into My side; and be
not unbelieving, but believing," ( John 20:27 ).Was it Jesus or not? If
not, then who was it? Did the disciples make up the story? Did the
apostle John lie when he wrote the account? If so, where are the
records refuting this preposterous notion? There aren't any.
Is it possible that all the disciples were mistaken about the same
thing at the same time especially when they were believing that
Jesus had died and was still dead? What would cause them all to
switch from believing that when you're dead you're dead to
believing that Jesus died and rose from the dead? Was Paul the
apostle also mistaken when he was riding along the road to
Damascus and claims to have encountered Jesus? Remember, Paul
was a persecutor the Christians. He had authority to arrest the
Christians and imprison them. He was a devout Jew and quite
powerful in the Jewish religious system. How is it that he changed
his mind so drastically and claims to have seen the risen Jesus ( 1
Cor. 9:1 )? Was he also simply mistaken? If so, how? What did he
see on the road to Damascas that changed his life if not something
incredible?
Is all of Christianity a big "oops"? Might we meet the disciples in the
afterlife and have them say to us, "Uh, remember that resurrection
thing about Jesus we wrote about? Well, we goofed. It really didn't
happen. We mistook the empty tomb -- never did find His body --
the prophecies of the Old Testament about Him rising ( Psalm
16:10 ), the prophecy of Jesus saying He'd rise ( John 2:19-21 ), the
accounts of the women saying that they had seen Him risen, the
appearances of a man who looked like Jesus and who had holes in
his hands and feet and appeared to us in closed rooms, the
conversion of Paul -- that was weird -- oh, and all those miracles He
did and those that we then did afterwards, too, well, that was all a
big mistake. Also, it was a big mistake going around Israel and all
of the Mediterranean proclaiming Jesus had risen from the dead
while we suffered persecution and death...yeah, it was all a big
mistake. Hope there are no hard feelings."
Is it rational to think that the disciples were simply mistaken about
something as serious as stating that Jesus had risen from the
dead? How do you mistake someone rising from the dead? What
would have to happen for numerous people to change their minds
about someone coming back to life? Or is it more rational to simply
conclude that the disciples weren't mistaken and that Jesus actually
did rise from the dead?