The Best Worldview is Found in Christianity: Podcast 99

As we begin our second great journey to find out if Jesus was who He claimed to be (spoiler alert – it was God), when we look for a coherent worldview we find that the Bible presents our best choice.  God loves you!!

“This subversive belief in Jesus’ Lordship, over against that of Caesar, was held in the teeth of the fact that Caesar had demonstrated his superior power in an obvious way, by having Jesus crucified.  But the truly extraordinary thing is that this belief was held by a tiny group who, for the first two or three generations at least, could hardly have mounted a riot in a village, let alone a revolution in an empire.  And yet they persisted against all the odds, attracting the unwelcome notice of authorities because of the power of the message and the worldview and lifestyle it generated and sustained.  And whenever we go back to the key texts for evidence of why they persisted in such an improbable and dangerous belief they answer: it is because Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead.  And this provokes us to ask once more: why did they make this claim?”  N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, 2003