Infallible Proofs…Acts 1:3

“During the forty days after his crucifixion, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.”

To the first Christians, faith in the deity of Christ was not a blind leap into the dark. Only God could defeat death, and they knew–beyond all doubt–that Jesus Christ had risen bodily from the tomb. They had seen Him, touched Him, and eaten with Him, alone and in crowds, in closed rooms, and out in the open.

The term “infallible proofs” translates a Greek word used only this one time, meaning literally “many criteria of certainty,” and it is significant that the inspired Word of God applies it only to the resurrection of Christ.

It is not too much to say that Christ’s resurrection is the most certain fact in all history, and many large volumes have been published setting forth the evidences thereof.

No wonder the apostle Peter could say,

2 Peter 1:16

For we were not making up clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We saw his majestic splendor with our own eye

The apostle John testified thus:

1 John 1:2

This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us

John not only saw Him in His resurrection body, but also in His glorified body, hearing Him say,

Revelation 1:18

I am the living one. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave(Greek and Hades.)

It is true that we, like the first Christians, must believe on Christ to receive salvation, but this faith is not a credulous faith, a leap into the dark.

It is a reasonable faith, based on many infallible proofs, and we can, therefore, trust Him with our eternal souls.