{"id":7636,"date":"2024-10-12T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7636"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","slug":"like-the-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7636","title":{"rendered":"LIKE THE SUNRISE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I watched a YouTube video today entitled “Atheist SURPRISED By (Christian’s) View Of SALVATION<\/b><\/a>“.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

It was posted by the Christian and after watching it, I wondered why he didn’t delete it instead.<\/p>\n\n\n

He didn’t look too great. The atheist, on the other hand, seemed emboldened by the conversation rather than surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n

A large part of the conversation centered on the atheist asking the Christian what reason he had for believing in the Bible’s description of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n

The Christian didn’t really have a great response. It was like he had never thought of it before.<\/p>\n\n\n

It’s a good question and I was sympathetic to this guy struggling to answer because it’s tough being put on the spot in that way.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

I tried to imagine myself in his shoes and ask myself what I would say.<\/p>\n\n\n

It IS hard to make the case for believing in presumed firsthand accounts from 2,000 years ago of a miraculous occurence like a resurrection in an age when you know you can’t even trust the evening news. Even if it is accompanied by video.<\/p>\n\n\n

So I think I would have leaned on one of my favorite C.S. Lewis quotes:<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cI believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that what I read in Scripture is the Truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

For all of the Bible’s claims about life and human nature and God, I have yet to see even one of them shown to be false, shallow, or misleading.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

So why wouldn’t I trust what it says about Jesus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched a YouTube video today entitled “Atheist SURPRISED By (Christian’s) View Of SALVATION“.\u00a0 It was posted by the Christian and after watching it, I wondered why he didn’t delete it instead. He didn’t look too great. The atheist, on the other hand, seemed emboldened by the conversation rather than surprised. A large part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7637,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}