…. death was the end of the road?
Bertrand Russell, the 20th century philosopher mathematician, maintained: “When I die, I shall rot.” Richard Dawkins said: “I don’t know what happens to us (when we die) but I know that our consciousness is wrapped up in our brains and I know that our brains rot. There doesn’t seem to be any reason, other than wishful thinking to believe otherwise.” Much earlier the author of the Book of Job wrote: “I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another.”(Job 19: 25-27) Ever since men walked the earth, we see them burying their dead, in the belief that one day, somewhere, they will live. Jesus claimed: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11: 25-26) He himself predicted His own death by Roman crucifixion, and that he would rise to life again after that, and both claims were fulfilled in history. Russell is dead, Dawkins will die, but Jesus is alive. He deserves to be taken seriously.