As husbands and fathers we are called to teach our families in all matters and to teach the truth. I ran across a little article that I thought was worth passing along. It seemed appropriate at this Easter season. It may help some of you to teach and defend the main truth of the New Testament. That is, Christ’s resurrection.
In April 2002, the well respected Oxford University philosopher professor Richard Swineburne used a broadly accepted probability theory to defend the truth of Christ’s resurrection. He did this at a high profile gathering of philosophy professors at Yale University.
In a New York Times interview, Swineburne said, “For someone dead to come to life again is, according to the laws of nature, extremely improbable. But if there is a God of the traditional kind, natural laws only operate because He makes them operate.” Swineburne used Bayes Theorum to assign values to things like the probability that God is real, Jesus behavior during his lifetime, and the quality of witness testimony after his death. Then he plugged the numbers into a probability formula and added everything up. The result: a 97% probability that the resurrection really happened. (Preachingtoday.com, Group Magazine, July 2002)
Interesting, isn’t it?
Chiefpigskin
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