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If you believe that dead people can never rise from the dead then, of course, nothing will convince you that Jesus did rise from the dead. But to take such a view is to be very confident that you know everything about how this still largely unknown universe works. And if you are at all open-minded to the possibility that Jesus might have risen from the dead, then the evidence for the resurrection is very strong.
Yet there is one area of evidence which we have not yet mentioned, an area of evidence for the resurrection of Jesus that can be personally tested. At the heart of the idea of the resurrection is the astounding belief that Jesus himself is alive, that he is not just an historical figure but a present reality: a living person we can communicate with and relate to. The testimony of Christians over the centuries is that this continues to be true: Jesus is alive and can be experienced as someone who transforms lives.
Those who truly want to find the risen Jesus, not out of idle curiosity but out of a desire to know him as Saviour, King and Lord of their lives, can still find him.
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