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The Mustard Seed
March 2008
Gallaudet
Lutheran Student Fellowship
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Bible Study
Every
Thursday 3:30 pm
Ely 118
Worship
1st Sunday of each
month
2:00
PM in the SUB Chapel
Everyone is welcome!
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Two events in life of Jesus are major stumbling blocks for many
people:
His conception and His resurrection.
Since there is no way to verify from either history or science that
Jesus
was miraculously conceived without any male sperm, skeptics don't waste
their
time by arguing against the Bible's claim that Jesus' mother was a
virgin.
An obvious rational explanation is that Mary and Joseph were
fooling
around.
But the Bible's claim concerning the resurrection, that is a problem
for
the skeptic. Even though it is biologically impossible for a
human
body that has been clinically dead for a day and a half to be
resuscitated
back to life, the historical evidence for the empty tomb is
overwhelming.
Even Christ's enemies published an admission that the tomb was empty,
claiming
that His disciples stole the body.
The "stolen body" theory is most doubtful, since hardened Roman
soldiers
guarded the tomb, while Jesus' disciples were so scared that they hid
in
fear that they would be killed just like their teacher.
Furthermore,
if the disciples had stolen the body and then they claimed that Jesus
had
risen from the dead, that would mean they went out to die as martyrs
for
what they knew to be a lie. The "stolen body" theory does not
account
for the overwhelming personal eye-witness accounts of the resurrection,
nor
does it explain how lives were forever changed for those who met the
risen
Christ.
Modern day critics of Christianity have concocted even more bizarre
theories
to explain the empty tomb. Some claim that Jesus secretly had an
identical
twin brother, and it was the brother who died on the cross in his
place.
Another popular theory is that Jesus' disciples only imagined
that
he rose from the dead -- over 500 of them had the same
hallucination?
Of course the serious flaw in both of those theories is that the
enemies
of Christ could have easily proven that he was still dead by simply
opening
the tomb.
The historical record documents that the enemies of Christ actually did
examine
the tomb and verified that it was empty. Explaining how it became
empty
has been the challenge. ...unless the eyewitnesses were telling
the
truth. And that would mean Jesus was also telling the truth when
He
said, "The Son of Man [Christ] did not come to
be served.
He came to serve others and to give His life as a ransom for many
people."
(John 14:16 NCV) It would also validate the other claims
the
Bible makes about Christ.
~~Pastor Ron
Sunday
Shuttle
We provide a Sunday morning shuttle from Gallaudet
to
Christ Lutheran Church of the Deaf in Silver Spring. Please email
Ron.Friedrich@gallaudet.edu
for time and place.
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hours are
Monday and Thursday
afternoons
in Ely 118.
Drop in and introduce
yourself!!
Pastor Ron Friedrich
Ron.Friedrich@gallaudet.edu
[Gallaudet Office
of Campus Ministry]