The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
Interpretation
The resurrection is a historically significant event, supported by strong evidence compared to other historical occurrences.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the pivotal and well-documented nature of the resurrection, asserting that its historical credibility surpasses that of any other event recorded throughout history. By positioning the resurrection as a fact with substantial evidence, Spurgeon calls attention to its theological and historical importance, inviting individuals to consider the implications of this event in the broader context of their beliefs and understanding of history.
In practice
During a sermon, to reinforce the truth of the resurrection as a historical fact.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too _x000D_ I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is itself a religion without God-not all religions, of course, are theistic. Our ethical secular ideal has it's own disciplines of mind and heart and gives people the means of finding faith in the ultimate meaning of human life that were once provided by the more conventional religions.
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