"Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible]."
--Ronald Reagan (1911- )
40th President of the United States
I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the
greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies
there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by
crucifixion. Where … is the miracle I spoke of? Well consider this and
let your imagination translate the story into our own time—possibly to
your own home town. A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up
working in his father's shop. One day he puts down his tools and walks
out of his father’s shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in
the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the
while, even though he is not an ordained minister. He never gets farther
than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three
years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of
appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those
in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing—the
only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place for him
so he is interred in a borrowed tomb. End of story? No, this
uneducated, property-less young man has, for 2,000 years, had a greater
effect on the world than all the rulers, kings, emperors; all the
conquerors, generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and
philosophers who have ever lived—all of them put together. How do we
explain that—unless He really was what He said He was?
Ronald Reagan, cited in Paul Kengor,
God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life, pp. 127–128, Harper, 4004.
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COLOSSIANS 2b-4 God’s mystery, which is Christ, 3in whom are hidden all the treasures of
...... wisdom and knowledge. 4I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.
