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The Life Appeared (1 John 1:1-3)

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According to 1 John 1:1-3, the foundation of the Christian faith is eyewitness testimony about Jesus Christ. But what did the eyewitnesses see: the mere facts of Jesus’ ministry or their spiritual significance? Let’s read 1 John 1:1-3 again for an answer to this question. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was … Continue reading The Life Appeared (1 John 1:1-3)

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Heard, Seen, Looked at, and Touched (John 1:1-3)

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Is the Christian faith built upon eyewitness testimony, or is it a decades-later invention of people who never saw or heard Jesus? Several years ago, Dan Brown published The Da Vinci Code, a novel whose climax is the revelation that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and bore children. Despite the fact that The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, many readers took its claims about Jesus and Mary Magdalene literally. Such readers doubted that the whole truth about Jesus could be found in the New Testament Gospels or the creeds of the Christian church. Not long after The … Continue reading Heard, Seen, Looked at, and Touched (John 1:1-3)