This week we wrap up our look at proof of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead looking at the last 2 of our 5 historical facts of the events that occurred around the event in question (the resurrection).  When we look at all 5 events together, we have to ask ourselves, “What is the most likely explanation of the cause of these events?” As we prepare to examine whether we were created or if we evolved, this will be an excellent exercise is letting the evidence lead us to the best conclusion. Don’t forget how much God loves you!   What are the events in question?  1. Jesus was a real person who was crucified and killed by the Romans. 2. Jesus' tomb was found empty by His female followers 3 days after His burial. 3. Jesus' disciples went from cowards, hiding from the religious leadership to being ready to take on the whole Roman empire. What changed? They claimed to have seen the physically risen, completed healed Jesus 3 days after His death. 4. Saul, the persecutor of the Church, conversion to Paul the greatest missionary in history.5. Jesus’ skeptic step brother James’ conversion to James the Just, leader in the early Church after Jesus’ crucifixion, death and burial.   1st Cor, 15 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.  (The Holy Bible, New King James Version, 1982)  

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