A well-respected scholar and avowed atheist was speaking at a large outdoor picnic.
He spoke for two and a half hours attempting to prove that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the church was groundless and emotional nonsense. He said it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who never rose from the dead in any literal sense.
He then asked if there were any questions.
After about thirty seconds, an old preacher stood up. "Sir, I have one question," he said, as all eyes turned toward him.
He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple he had been eating. "My question is a simple question," he said before taking another bite out of the apple.
He continued, "I haven't read all the books you have, and I can't recite the Scriptures in the original Greek." He took a couple more bites of the apple and said, "I don't know a thing about Niebuhr and Heidegger.”
He finished the apple and said, "All I want to know is…this apple I just finished, was it tart or sweet?”
The speaker paused for a moment and answered in exemplary scholarly fashion, "I cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven't tasted your apple.”
The white-haired preacher dropped the core of his apple into his crumpled paper bag and said calmly, "Neither have you tasted my Jesus.”
- Author Unknown
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Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. - John 14:6 ESV
“Taste and see that the LORD is good! Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in Him! If you have, rejoice in the hope of the resurrection that your faith in Him brings." - Psalm 34:8-9
And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and He is eternal life. 1 John 5:20 NLT
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