People who are unchurched or dechurched, and even people who profess to be Christians, they need to realize and know that there’s a great deal of evidence for the events in the New Testament. And science and history and logic and reason all provide evidence…not only for these events…but also for the reliability of the New Testament documents (the Gospels and Acts in particular).
Something extraordinary happened in the early first century that enabled and motivated a tiny sect in the miserable and desolate armpit of the Roman Empire to not only survive, but to thrive. This tiny group, who had no power and no finances and no territory and no army, was able to withstand the persecution of the Jewish Temple…the very center of Judaism and national identity of Ancient Israel…which had an abundance of all of these things. The power structure of Judaism was the first group to persecute Jesus and His followers.
The Jewish Temple later joined forces with the despised occupiers of Judea, the mighty Roman Empire, and this same tiny sect was able to withstand the persecution of these combined forces as well. And the Roman Empire had vast amounts of power and finances and territory, and a huge army. Something clearly extraordinary was at play to bring these things about.
