JESUS CHRIST evidential PROOF

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[00:00:01]The incarnate truth, a deep analysis.

[00:00:05]The Greek horizon, Plato's just man and the logos.

[00:00:10]For the Greeks, the pinnacle of human achievement was the pursuit of arete, excellent virtue, through the use of the logos.

[00:00:20]Defining the logos.

[00:00:22]In Greek philosophy, the logos was the divine reason or the underlying blueprint of the universe. It was the logic that kept the stars in their courses and the seasons in their cycles.

[00:00:34]However, to the Greeks, the logos was an impersonal force, a cosmic math equation, not a friend.

[00:00:42]Plato's prophetic insight. In book two of the Republic, Plato explores the nature of true justice.

[00:00:50]He posits that if a perfectly just man ever walked the earth, he would be treated as a criminal.

[00:00:56]Plato's reasoning was that a truly good man would be so different from a corrupt world that the world would hate him.

[00:01:03]The historical parallel.

[00:01:06]Plato wrote that this man would be scourged, racked, and finally impaled.

[00:01:11]The Greek word used for impalement was often associated with the same gruesome public execution that the Romans later refined into crucifixion. The unknown God. Centuries later, when the Apostle Paul stood at the Areopagus, a high court in Athens, he saw an altar dedicated to the unknown God, Agnostos Theo.

[00:01:34]The Greeks had reached a logical ceiling. They knew a supreme cause existed, but they admitted he was unknown. Paul's message was that the unknown God had finally revealed his face in Jesus. The Jewish foundation.

[00:01:49]From shadow to substance. While the Greeks were reaching up through reason, the Jews were looking forward through revelation, direct communication from God.

[00:02:01]Defining the covenant. A covenant is more than a contract. It is a sacred family bond. The old covenant was established through the Mosaic law, which used a complex system of animal sacrifices to teach the people that sin has a cost and life is in the blood.

[00:02:20]The type and shadow. The Bible describes the Old Testament rituals as types, symbols, or shadows that point to a future reality.

[00:02:31]Hebrews 10:1.

[00:02:33]The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the realities themselves. For this reason, it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect for those who draw near to worship.

[00:02:49]The final Passover. For 1,500 years, the Jews killed a lamb at Passover to remember their deliverance from Egypt.

[00:02:59]When John the Baptist saw Jesus, he declared, "Look, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." John 1:29.

[00:03:10]Jesus was the substance that the shadow had been predicting for centuries. The events, the Logos became flesh. The most explosive claim in human history is the incarnation, the idea that the infinite God entered finite time. Defining the incarnation. From the Latin incarnatio, being made flesh, this is the belief that the second person of the Trinity took on a human nature.

[00:03:39]The bridge of John. The Apostle John wrote his gospel specifically to bridge the Greek and Jewish worlds. John 1:1 and 14. In the beginning was the word, logos, and the word was with God. And the word was God. The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only son, who came from the Father full of grace and truth. Why this mattered?

[00:04:11]To a Greek, God was the unmoved mover, a being so perfect he couldn't be affected by human suffering. John's claim that God became flesh and suffered was a scandal to the Greeks.

[00:04:26]But it was the only way to heal the rift between the divine and the human.

[00:04:32]The historical and psychological proof.

[00:04:35]The witness of blood.

[00:04:37]The validity of this claim rests on the historicity, historical actuality of the resurrection.

[00:04:45]The secular evidence. Tacitus, the Roman historian, around 116 AD, recorded that Christ suffered the extreme penalty under Pontius Pilate.

[00:04:58]Pliny the Younger, a Roman governor who wrote to Emperor Trajan, marveling at how Christians would sing hymns to Christ as to a god, and refused to curse his name even under threat of death. The psychology of the apostles. The transformation.

[00:05:17]After the crucifixion, the apostles were hiding in fear. Suddenly, they emerged as the boldest men in Jerusalem. The logical argument.

[00:05:26]People will die for a lie they believe is true, but no one dies for a lie they know is a hoax.

[00:05:34]If the apostles had stolen the body, they would have known it was a lie. Yet, every single one, except John, suffered brutal executions, stoning, flaying, and crucifixion, refusing to recant.

[00:05:49]A message of logic and faith to the skeptic. If your logic is merely a product of monkey brain evolution, you have no reason to trust your own conclusions.

[00:06:00]But if you're made in the image of the logos, your thirst for truth is a signal that truth exists. You're not an accident. You are a creature designed to recognize its creator. To the believer, you do not follow a hollow philosophy.

[00:06:17]You follow a historical reality that was foretold by the prophets and anticipated by the philosophers.

[00:06:25]1 Corinthians 1:22-24.

[00:06:30]Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. But to those whom God has called, both the Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

[00:06:50]The world was changed because the truth stopped being an idea and became a person.