Simon Greenleaf, professor of law at Harvard University and a worldrenowned scholar on the rules of legal evidence, said that it was “impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they have narrated had not Jesus actually risen from the dead, and had they not known ths fact as certainly as the knew any other fact.” [Simon, Greenleaf, The Testimonyof the Evangelists: The Gospel Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administerred in Courts of Justice (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1995), 32)]
[Doctrine : What Christians Should Believe, Crossway 2010, S.292]
Therefore, the resurrection is proof that Jesus’ teaching was and is truth that we can trust. Practically, Jesus’ resurrection gives us confidence in his other promises that we are waiting to see fulfilled, such as his returning one day to judge sinners (John 3:16, 18, 36; 5:25-29) and reward saints. (John 14:3)
[Doctrine : What Christians Should Believe, Crossway 2010, S.302]
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