Few things are more certain in history than the belief of the Apostles that Christ rose from the dead.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
If Jesus did not rise from the grave: 1) Jesus said: “I lay my life down and I take my life up again. No one takes my life from me.” 2) The gates of heaven will still be closed. No saints, No apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. No miracles of healing at Lourdes. No Our Lady of Guadaloupe. 3) No Catholic Church, no pope, so hierarchy no SACRAMENTS. 4) Jesus lied and is not the Word of God, nor is Jesus divine, nor is Jesus infinite in the Supreme Sovereign Being.
5) The bones of Christ will still be in His tomb. 6) No redemption. 7) God lied.
All human beings look forward to the Beatific Vision of God in heaven. Lucifer saw God and rejected the Beatific Vision.