Q: What do you say when your children ask you, “How do you know that Christianity is real or right?”
A: There is only one way to know if anything is true or not. If it aligns with reality, it is true. If I say, “The Rams are playing the Patriots in the Super Bowl in a couple weeks,” I would not be right. I would be delusional! (Or perhaps prone to wishful thinking!) The statement, “The Giants are facing the Patriots in the Super Bowl” is right because it aligns with reality. My dislike of both teams matter little. It is what it is.
The Apostle Paul tells us Christianity rises or falls on the resurrection. If Christ is raised from the dead, Christianity is true. If not, then our faith is futile and in vain. There is no greater miracle and no greater proof. But, is our belief in the resurrection true? If it aligns with reality, then yes. How do we know if it does or not? After all, that was 2000 years ago. There is only one way to know if something happened in history and that is eyewitness testimony. We have many eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ resurrection. They believed it so strongly that when they were confronted with the option of Caesar and live or Christ and die, they chose Christ. Can we prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt? No, but the eyewitness accounts mean we can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. That is the standard for any event in human history. It is the standard for trials in court, too. On the basis of reliable eyewitness testimony, we can tell our kids, with confidence, that Christianity is true.
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