Can You Prove It?

2. Evidence in History

2.1 Introduction

However, more important than the evidence in creation, there is the evidence in history - in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. People today may say that Jesus was just a mythical figure, or that we do not really know anything about Him. So it is important that we understand how reliable the historical evidence is.

Clearly, something unusual happened in western Asia about two thousand years ago. How else are we to account for the origin and explosive growth of the new religious movement called Christianity - a movement that, in less than four centuries had grown from its obscure origins to become the official religion of the Roman empire? How else are we to account for the origins of the documents that today we call the New Testament?