Gospels of the New Testament

Now if Christ raised from the dead is what has been preached, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ himself cannot have been raised, and if Christ has not been raised then our preaching is useless and your believing it is useless; indeed, we are shown up as witnesses who have committed perjury before God, because we swore in evidence before God that he raised Christ to life. For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, you are still in your sins. And what is more serious, all who have died in Christ have perished (I Corinthians 15:12-19, The Jerusalem Bible (New Testament) [JBNT], 227).

In the aftermath of the resurrection, the fate of Jesus has been hotly debated for centuries. Herein lies the greatest challenge to Christian faith.

For the fundamentalist believer, the answer is rather easy to come by: "The Bible says it, I believe it, and that's that." In other words, the Bible is the Word of God committed to writing at the hand of man, but i

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le is simply a great collection of stories, myths, poems, fables, and other literary devices. It lets us in on what life was all about two to five thousand years ago. Like readers of other great books of antiquity, The humanist can be a devotee of the Bible, even a professional biblical scholar, yet sees no evidence in the Bible of the existence, much less the authorship, of the Judeo-Christian God. Rather, the humanist sees the Bible as the product of people who had a specific view of human origins, of historical events and persons, and who gathered accounts and wrote in order to create that same faith in their readers (Commentary Notes on the Christian Biblical Movement, 11). Humanism can permit the Bible to encourage a positive faith, because it views the text as "a valuable and enlightening witness to the human product" (Commentary Notes on the Christian Biblical Movement, 11). The difference is that it is not comprised of the words of God, but merely the words of people for other people. Each of these philosophical approaches to the Bible has its particular strengths and weaknesses. When viewed from within the context of each philosophy, the other two fail to persuade, or are downright heretical. We cannot, in
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