The Resurrection of Christ
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Why does Paul say the resurrection is the heart of the Christian faith?
Paul had no time for a Christianity without resurrection, because he understood that the heart and soul of the Christian faith, what made the Christian faith a Christian faith, was the announcement not that you're supposed to love one another, but the announcement he is risen.
Sometimes people try to reduce Christianity to its ethical imperatives, claiming that it doesn't really matter if the supernatural claims of the Bible are true. What really matters is that we love each other. And yet, the Bible itself says that if Christ is not raised, then our faith is futile. Welcome to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Dave Terrio, your weekday host, and it's good to be with you. Today we'll be wrapping up our time in RC Sproll series Surprise by Suffering. It's the final day to get lifetime downloadable access to all six messages in the Liginaire app. And you'll even receive a digital study guide to help you go deeper into this topic. Just go to renewingyourmind.org to donate and thank you for supporting this program.
Let's listen now as Dr. Sproul helps us consider the vital importance of the resurrection.
My favorite poet. Of all time. is Edgar Allan Paul. And Poe's work, as you know, is somewhat pessimistic. Indeed, at times macabre And recently I had the opportunity to read a series of critical essays that Poe had written. Poe didn't only write poetry, but he also wrote technical literature about his craft and about general theories of aesthetics, of beauty, that sort of thing. But in this particular essay Oh gave his ideas of what the ideal poem should be. Then he went on to illustrate his idea of poetry by just setting down on paper how he went about composing his most famous poem. And of course that most famous poem Is called the Raven. Let me just refresh your memory not by reading the whole poem but
Just the first couple of verses and the last couple of verses and I'll spare the other ninety some. You remember how it starts once upon a midnight dreary? To hear the sonorous language while I pondered weak and weary. Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came
a
tapping, as if someone gently rapping. Rapping at my chamber door. Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door. Only this Nothing more. Uh.
How does R.C. Sproul link the resurrection to the problem of suffering?
Distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December and each separate dying ember brought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow. Vainly had I sought to borrow from my books the Cerce of sorrow. Sorrow for the lost Lenure. For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, nameless fear. Forevermore. And now as he's alone thinking about the loss of Lenoure and he hears this tapping, this rapping at the door, you know what happens. He goes over and he sees that it is this ungodly, fiendish burger. And the bird comes in and has a one-word vocabulary. All the questions that the hero puts to this speaking bird, he gets the same monotonous Piercing reply Nevermore. until there's a crescendo of anguish that we reach then in the next to the last verse, where the man screams out in his prostration, Prophet said I
Sing of evil, profit still at bird or devil, whether tempter sent or whether tempest tossed ye here is sure. Desolate yet all undaunted on this desert land enchanted, on this home by
horror
haunted, tell me truly I implore. Is there?
Is there balm and Gilead? Tell me, tell me I implore. Quoth the raven.
Never go. Prophet said I thing of evil. Prophet still, if bird or devil by that heaven that bends above us by the God we both adore, tell this soul with sorrow ladeneth within the distant Aden, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenora. Clasp a rare and radiant Maiden whom the angels name Glanor. Well, it's the Raven. Nevermore.
Do you hear what he's asking? Will I sing her again? On the other side. Will I be reunited?
A raven says no. Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend, I shrieked, upstarting, get thee back into the tempest and the night's plutonian shore. Leave no black plume as a token of the lie that thy soul has spoken.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does Paul say the resurrection is the heart of the Christian faith?
0:00–3:02
2
How does R.C. Sproul link the resurrection to the problem of suffering?
3:02–6:09
3
What logical argument does Sproul use to show that denying the resurrection makes Christianity futile?
6:09–9:49
4
Why does Sproul claim modern skepticism threatens the gospel’s core claim?
9:49–13:09
5
How does Sproul illustrate the practical consequences of a world without resurrection?
13:09–16:26
6
What philosophical defenses (Kant, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky) does Sproul reference for believing in life after death?
16:26–20:06
7
How does Sproul describe the eyewitness testimony of the risen Christ as evidence?
20:06–22:59
8
What hope does the resurrection give to believers facing grief and suffering?
22:59–25:54