The Case for Christ

Psalm 93:1b-2, "The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.  Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity."

We went to see "The Case for Christ" last night.  The movie is based off the book and in summary it tells the story of Lee Strobel, an athiest and reporter, who went searching for facts to basically disprove his wife's recent acceptance of Jesus as her Savior.  The story is not new, there are many, who have trod this road...C.S. Lewis and Kirk Cameron among them. 

It was good for me to see, I explained to my husband, to help me remember the facts.  I live by my heart and my decision did not have to be backed up by hard evidence (doubting Thomas who had to put his hand in Jesus' side to believe).  I was a lot like Leslie Strobel...sometimes you get frustrated and want to scream, "I wish I could just explain it to you!"  

I did some studying of my own, including Strobel's A Case for Christ, C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity and Josh McDowell's More than just a Carpenter.  I wanted to be able to handle the tough questions and defend my faith.  The historical facts are there.  One analogy that stuck out to me:  for all the prophecies for Jesus' lineage to be correct by chance would be like lining the ENTIRE state of Texas two feet deep with silver dollars and then sending a blindfolded man out of Dallas to go in any direction and his being able to pick up a specifically marked silver dollar on his first attempt.  The odds one to 100,000,000,000,000.  And that's for Jesus just fulfilling EIGHT of the prophecies about Him (there are 60 major ones).  There are many other FACTS these men have found.  My thought: why reinvent the wheel if you want to go fact finding?   Use their work.  But if it needs to be your own sweat that takes you there, go for it! 

Even in the end, as the movie points out, whether you choose to believe or whether you choose not to believe...it is a leap of faith...either way.  God established His throne long before anyone drew breath.  And His reign is for eternity.  The facts are there.  And so is my heart.