I'm almost done with reading The Reason for God by Timothy Keller. It's a interesting survey of the objections and defenses of the Christian faith, and certainly worth a read if you're into that sort of thing. However, there is one passage in the chapter entitled 'The Reality of the Resurrection' which both sums up the book, and sums up the Christian faith. It is the hinge on which everything turns. Everything.
'If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that He said; if He didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what He said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but whether or not He rose from the dead.'
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