Hi Lam,
I love chess too, but sometimes offense is the best defense.
"But where is the evidence for the changed lives? That is all in the same book. And lives are changed to this very day by actions and beliefs that are far short of resurrection.
lfen "
Ifen,
My Step-father is such evidence of a changed life because of Jesus. He went from a drug addict to being in prison and thanks to a Christian run drug rehabilitation centre in Southern England found faith in Jesus and is now a completely new person. My mother was healed instantly of a chronic illness back in 1986. Nothing tangable about that, but I could see the difference. The thing with christianity is not simply about 'belief' but a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Its not about believing the Earth is 6,000 years old or anything like that, its a simple trust in God. The 'evidence' for me is the fruit of that relationship and for me God's promises have been true and my own experience of him is real. Of course there is plenty of historical evidence and having seen some of the replies to that earlier in this thread have been rubbished out of context. For example, Caesar's Gallic wars' has only 9 copies of the original, but the new testament has 5,000 plus, but some of you seem more prepared to hold more weight to something like Caesar's Gallic wars' than to any evidence to what happened in New Testament times. Why would Saul (later Paul) go from being a persecutor of the early church (where he had high standing from both Jewish and Roman authoriites) to actually joining it, being thrown in prison for it and ultimately cost him his freedom to his death? What was in it for him, unless..he found it to be true?
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