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Title: What Does It Prove Author: Lemuel K. Washburn [More Titles by Washburn] Christians say that the resurrection of Jesus proves his claim to be the Messiah. But what proves the resurrection? Certainly not the contradictory stories of the gospels. The story of the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb merely proves that somebody lied, that is all. A pretty Messiah Jesus was! The Messiah of the Jews was to be a king who should restore the lost splendor of the house of David; who should overthrow the power of the Romans and build up the Israelitish kingdom. This king never came. Jesus was just about as much a Jewish Messiah as Crispus Attucks was a President of the United States. ---------- No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as large as man. ---------- To correct in ourselves what we condemn in others would remove most of the evils of life. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |