Today we commemorate a unique event in history - the resurrection of Christ. All men are born. Some grew up to preach and start a religion. Then they died.
Only Jesus was born of a virgin, died on the cross and was resurrected on the third day. The resurrection of Christ is the proof of His divinity. The others just talked, they claimed that they are somebody special, but they have no proof. Sai Baba died on last Easter (24th April 2011). The death of Buddha was recorded in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. Both of them are still dead. Buddhist claimed that Buddha attained nirvana, but it remains unproved and unprovable. Well, you may argue, religions are faith-based. Christianity is also faith-based. But certain things in Christianity are provable, so that you may believe those that cannot be proved.
Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. (1 Corinthians 15:1-11 KJV)
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