re is it good that jesus died jim burhill writes would you consider the word of an eye witness peter to testify to the events surrounding jesus life no there are two problems here brian kendig writes peter died two millenia ago the original letters he wrote have long since decayed into dust if he were alive today and i could do you question the existence of alexander the great tilgrath pilisar iii nero caligula josephus cyrus the great artexerxes their documents have decayed to dust too brian why another excuse even if peter did witness the miracles of jesus two millenia ago that doesn t mean that your deity is what the bible says it is god might just be satan trying to convince everyone that he s a nice guy or even that your deity is still alive and active in the world today peter wrote a bit of the bible what peter says about god is what the bible says consider the bible a court recording over the period of thousands of years various people come up and testify of their experience with the living god up comes abraham the wealthy rancher up comes moses once the high official of egypt up comes elijah a priest up comes david a mere shepherd who became king up comes the pagan king nebuchanezzar up comes the pagan king of persia cyrus up comes nehemiah cupbearer to the king of persia then matthew an irs agent takes the stand up comes luke an m d then paul a jew who use to kill christians for fun up comes john a year old boy up comes peter a fishermen up comes james the brother of jesus himself up comes hundreds of others you hear testimony from fishermen irs agents priests kings the court hearing lasts thousands of years with people coming up and testifying about the god who calls himself i am while you are listening to all this stuff you realize that king david could have never known john solomon could have never known matthew nehemiah could have never known peter you realize that all these people are independent witnesses and so you rule out collaboration yet all of the witnesses tell of the same god each testifier tells of his own experiences with the living god each experience is different but each experience has enough cross over to unmistakenly reveal that each one of these people is talking about the very same god what daniel did not know about god the rd highest official of babylon god revealed to john years later but with a different perspective no two testimonies are identical each testimony dares to venture off what is already known yet each witness s testimony even though different from those prior consistently describes harmoniously fitting facets of the character of the same god now as we stare gazing at the computer you got this seeming fanatic on the other end of the net saying i know this god i am he has revealed himself to me too he also calls himself jesus john please believe me i am telling the truth it is wonderful to know him are you going to just pass off all this testimony as fictiousness are you going to call three thousand years worth of testimony from shepherds to irs agents to royal officials to kings to computer programmers fiction with a scoff of your keyboard with near complete ignorance of the testimonies are you going to say that that is all complete hooey would that not be the most audacious display of arrogance do you actually think you know better than king solomon king david or even abraham lincolnr
