greater than three thousand years in the past, Job asked the query: "If a man die, shall he live once again?" This query remains on the lips of each man. It has been requested through each generation, and some variety of reply has been given with the aid of every religion. but no religion shop Christianity has ever found a adequate and compelling answer to it. With the only exception of Christ, all of the wonderful spiritual leaders are useless. Zoroaster is useless; Confucius is lifeless; Laotze is dead; Buddha is useless; Mohammed is useless. None of them arose from the grave.
With eyes closed to Christian certainty, hearts and minds locked in darkness, many cry out that man is mortal and nothing extra. "lifestyles's circle ends with loss of life," they are saying, "and resurrection's morning is the phantasy of deluded men whose tombs will by no means unencumber their captives and whose pious hopes of resurrection partake of no reality save demise itself. Man goes into the grave to upward push no greater." Corliss Lamont, the prevalent opponent of immortality, has written: "I have come to the conclusion that the existence which human beings be aware of on this earth is the just one they're going to ever have.… And in this case the probabilities towards the human character surviving in any profitable method the event referred to as dying seem to me so overwhelming that we're justified in regarding immortality as an illusion" (The illusion of Immortality, Corliss Lamont, ny: Philosophical Library, 1950, p. xi).
We Christians do not settle for this futile view of life. We vicinity our family in coffins knowing that we will see them once more. We bury them within the earth assured that it will no longer eat them perpetually. even though we weep on the open grave, we see beyond it the morning time ...
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