Lee Strobel

For our sins.

He was buried.

On the third day he rose again.

And then it has the specific names of individuals and groups of people who encountered the resurrected Jesus, including 500 people at once.

Well, guess what?

Historians have been able to date that creed.

So, for instance, one of the great historians, James D.G.

Dunn of England, one of the greatest historians of our time, dated that creed.

And he says we can be entirely confident that that creed was formulated within months of the death of Jesus.

within months.

That's historical gold.

That's far too quick to be a legend.

The great historian A.N.

Sherwin-White of Oxford and Cambridge said the passage of two generations of time is not even enough for legend to grow up and wipe out a solid core of historical truth.

So we got a newsflash, and it's not the only early report we got.

We got others in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, the Book of Acts, all that date back so early they were circulating during the lifetimes of Jesus' contemporaries who would have disputed the

claims if they had been wrong.

So that's the second E is early accounts.

The third E stands for empty.

We have an empty tomb.