If the President of the United States came to your town, it would not be a topic for discussion, philosophy or logic. It would be news. A presidential visit is not a “conception” or an article of faith. It’s an event. You can’t reason about it. Whether you are a simple person or a brilliant scholar, you just have to accept it as news.
The gospel is the same—news, good news. Christ has come and sets people free from their sins, heals their bodies, and baptizes them in the Holy Spirit.
News is not logic or reason. It is what happened. Nobody thinks it up, so nobody can reason about it.
Here is how Apostle Paul put it:
1 Corinthians 15:2-5:
“By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you: … that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.”
That was the creed then. And that is the creed now. It is a statement of facts about Christ.
Believing the facts and trusting Jesus saves us.
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