When I wrote Jesus Rose from the Dead: the Evidence I found it amazing to go through the proofs for the resurrection. There was so much truth there; I felt as if I could actually stand up in a court room and make a good case for the defense. “Yes the resurrection did happen.”

I had quite a few conversations with my parents as I grappled with the various issues. My mother who has considerable experience of the court room through her position as Justice of the Peace was a great help.
She talked about the many cases she’d been involved with over her years on ‘the bench’ and how you could often tell when someone was telling the truth or not.

One clear indication that someone was making it all up was if their story and the story of several witnesses were exactly the same… and I mean exactly. From the very first sentence to the very last detail Mr X tells the same story as Miss Y and then Mrs B says exactly the same as well. ‘That should make you suspicious,’ my mum declared.

I remember saying, ‘Really?’ Mum replied, ‘Yes. You see people never remember the same incident in exactly the same way. Everyone witnesses an incident from a different position or angle. So when you hear several people giving exactly the same evidence that makes you stop and think – ‘These people have worked out exactly what they’re going to say and they’re all hiding something.’

It was good to get this information directly from someone who knew what she was talking about.
You see one of the complaints from unbelievers regarding the resurrection and the gospels as a whole is that the gospel writers wrote things differently; they mentioned different stories, they shared different facts. So some people look at this and say – ‘The bible has contradictions so we shouldn’t believe it. We shouldn’t believe that Jesus rose from the dead.’

But the experts in human behaviour and the law say otherwise. Because each of the writers share different facts and ‘appear’ to be contradicting each other actually proves the opposite. These stories are more likely to be true because of the fact that they are slightly different. Each of the writers wrote slightly differently because they remembered things differently, but one person’s version of events doesn’t mean that another person’s version is wrong. Each of the writers had a different readership so the points they focused on were different too. Each writer wanted to emphasise a particular point or topic so that’s also why their focus was different.

Having this amazing piece of information as one of my first building blocks I felt more confident about going on to writing about the other evidences for the resurrection. There are all the eye-witness accounts. It’s amazing when we realise how so many people actually saw Jesus risen from the dead. There’s the fact that it was Roman Soldiers who actually determined if Jesus was dead or not – now Roman Soldiers were experts at killing people. There is no way they’d make a mistake about that. And then there are all the amazing prophecies written hundreds of years before Jesus was even born – and a lot of them came true within 24 hours of Jesus death. There are in fact 60 prophecies in the Old Testament that Jesus himself fulfils.

I think I can say with certainty that this was a book that I found hard to write. It was different to what I’d written before, it was a more factual book for a start. I knew I had to write it in a different style and I wasn’t exactly sure how to start it or how to finish it. But over time I managed to get something together, I put in fact files and tasks and loads of scripture verses. I hope what I have written will prove to you the facts of the resurrection – but also that Jesus Christ came into this world to save sinners. Two amazing truths that you as a sinner can’t afford to ignore and that a Christian can take great encouragement from.

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