Christians say that the resurrection of Jesus proves his claim to be the
Messiah. But what proves the resurrection? Certainly not the contradictory
stories of the gospels. The story of the resurrection of Jesus from the
tomb merely proves that somebody lied, that is all. A pretty Messiah Jesus
was! The Messiah of the Jews was to be a king who should restore the lost
splendor of the house of David; who should overthrow the power of the
Romans and build up the Israelitish kingdom. This king never came. Jesus
was just about as much a Jewish Messiah as Crispus Attucks was a President
of the United States.
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No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as
large as man.
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To correct in ourselves what we condemn in others would remove most of the
evils of life.