The Resurrection of Jesus
1. “The resurrection of Christ is the heart of Christianity, which makes it pulsate with the life of God; it is the keystone to the arch of truth, which holds all the faith of the Gospel together; it is the
foundation of the Church; it is the mainspring of Christian activity; it is the lever of power which shall move the world; and it is the link which unites all believers.”
- F. E. Marsh (”Five Hundred Bible Readings” page 210)
2. “Modernism is a parasite which draws such vitality as it possesses from the dogmas which it denies.” - Arnold Lunn (”The Third Day” page 119)
“I have been used for many years to study the history of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence of those who have written about them; and I know of no fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fuller evidence of every sort, to the understanding of a fair inquirer, than the great sign which God has given us, that Christ died and rose again from the dead.”
3. ”He is not here; for he is risen, as he said, Come, see the place where the Lord lay” - Matthew 28:6
4. ”If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins” - I Corinthians 15:17
5. “The belief in the Godhead of our Lord and the belief in the resurrection stand and fall together. Those who repudiate the resurrection have set their feet on a road which leads from Christianity to Unitarianism, open or camouflaged.” - Arnold Lunn (”The Third Day” pages 119-120)
6. “ ‘Nobody is ever converted by argument’ is a popular slogan with Christian appeasers, but unilateral disarmament is as foolish in theological as in international disputes. Communists and atheists do not act on the principle that no Christian can ever be perverted by argument” - Arnold Lunn (”The Third Day” page 29).
7. “ ‘When I used a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’ “ - Lewis Carroll.
8. “A belief in the immortality of the soul was the highest attainment of pagan philosophy. Belief in the resurrection of Christ and in our own resurrection, because of Christ, is the ABC of Christianity (page 49) “Paul does not preach the immortality of Christ’s soul or our own immortality. If he had done that he would have been Plato’s disciple not Christ’s apostle” (page 51) - Samuel M. Zwemer (Evangelism Today).
9. ”Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet” (Luke 24:39-40).
10. ”Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?” (Acts 26:8).
11. “The resurrection has been a snare to unbelief in all ages. It angered the Sadducees, the rationalists of the Saviour’s time. It aroused the contempt and scorn of Stoics and Epicureans when Paul preached it on Mars Hill. Materialistic science has always attacked it with delirious joy, and supercilious scorn. When one asked a great military leader how to locate the most important sector of the battle line he replied, ‘Look for the place that is most stubbornly attacked and most determinedly defended’ That rule marks out this teaching as the chief stronghold of our religion. Consequently there have been many efforts to explain away or eliminate the fact of the resurrection.” - L. E. Barton (”Three Dimensions of Love” page 87).
12. ”And if Christ be not risen, then is your preaching vain, and your faith is also vain” (I Corinthians 15:14).
13. “The resurrection is variously presented in the New Testament, and is at once a proof, a pattern, a power, a prophecy, and a pledge. It is the poof of our acceptance of Christ’s death and of our acceptance with Him (Romans 4:25), it is to be the pattern of our holy life (Romans 6:4), it is also the power for Christian character and service (Ephesians 1:18-20); it contains the promise of our own resurrection (I Thessalonians 4:14), and it is the pledge of our life hereafter (John 14:19).” - W. H. Griffith-Thomas ("Christ Preeminent” page 92).
14. “It will probably be evident from the preceding discussion that a movement is at present in process which aims at nothing less than the dissolution of Christianity, as that has been hitherto understood. It is not simply the details of the recorded life of Jesus that are questioned, but the whole conception of Christ’s supernatural Person and work as set forth in the Gospels and Epistles, which is challenged. If the Virgin Birth is rejected at one end of the history, and the bodily Resurrection at the other, not less are the miracles and supernatural claims that lie between. With this goes naturally on the part of many a hesitancy in admitting even Christ’s moral perfection. A sinless Personality would be a miracle in time, and miracles are excluded by the first principles of this new philosophy.” - James Orr (”The Resurrection of Jesus” page 265).
“Behold, He is risen: He is not here!”
By Chester E. Tulgo (”The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ” 1951)