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John Warwick Montgomery. As a philosophy student at Cornell University, Montgomery was a convinced skeptic. He writes, “I went to university as a ‘garden-variety’ 20th-century pagan. And as a result of being forced, for intellectual integrity’s sake, to check out this evidence, I finally came around.”

He tells of an obstinate undergraduate engineering student who continued to challenge him to really examine the evidence: “I thank God that he cared enough to do the reading to become a good apologist because if I hadn’t had someone like that I don’t know if I would have become a Christian.”

Montgomery went on to earn a PhD from the University of Chicago, and a second doctorate in theology, plus seven additional graduate degrees in theology, law, library science, and other fields. He has written more than 125 scholarly journal articles, plus 40 books, many of them defending the Christian faith against skeptical views. He is also one of the few lawyers admitted to practice in both England and America. People with the kind of background, temperament, and philosophical premises that Dr. Montgomery had simply do not believe in Christianity apart from sufficient evidence.

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John Weldon. Soon after I became a Christian on April 23, 1971, I read a short paper on the physical and medical aspects of a Roman crucifixion by a medical doctor. It had quite an impact, irrefutably demonstrating the immeasurable love God had for me. That He would actually endure such extreme physical torture for sinners and enemies was unthinkable.

For days I was struck by a simple fact. The unbearable torture of the crucifixion was almost infinitely less — nearly “nothing” — compared to the spiritual agony and torture Jesus must have endured when He bore the full weight of God’s infinite wrath against all human sin, once for all.

That realization personally unchained God’s love for me in a far more dramatic manner—indeed, to the point of making, in Chesterton’s words, “dust and nonsense” of every other religion—simply because nothing in past or future history could ever conceivably approach it. In what other religion has it ever been heard, “God so loved the world…”?

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Implications of the Resurrection

We believe the historical evidence will lead an impartial investigator to conclude that Christianity alone is fully true—because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. What are the implications for the human race, past, present, and future?

• The resurrection gives proof that Jesus is who He claimed to be. Jesus is the prophesied Messiah, the one and only Son of God (God incarnate), and the Lord and Judge of all the living and the dead.
• The resurrection gives proof that faith in Jesus secures eternal salvation as a permanent possession. This includes forgiveness of all sins, past, present, and future; personal justification (that is, the righteousness of Christ is eternally credited to the believer’s account); and assurance of future resurrection to eternal life.
• The resurrection gives proof to all people of future judgment. This judgment is based on our response to Christ in this life, which is the determining factor as to whether our sins are forgiven or remain to be judged. As Acts 17:30-31 makes clear, “God commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”
• The resurrection gives proof that Christ alone is the way to God. Jesus taught, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). No other way is acceptable to God, because only Christ atoned for human sin. Only Christ rose from the dead in proof of His atonement for sin. Only Christ is God’s Son (John 3:16,18); therefore, only Christ is God’s chosen way to salvation. For all that God has done for people, He asks no more than that they trust in His Son for their salvation and not in them- selves—or in others who claim to offer salvation apart from this kind of proof.

No better news exists anywhere. No simpler or securer path to heaven can ever be found. If Jesus Christ did in- deed physically rise from the dead, then His claims on our life deserve our allegiance above those of any other.