(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . rament, but with hardened men of thesea and with a hard-headed tax-gatherer and business manas we find in Matthew. j The proposed soluLion of the whole question as|set, for-Gh by tiie Hesu. rection Legend of the aythologicalschools i. worthy of passing observation. They propose thatthe Christian story was imported into Judaism from Babylon-ian myths and other similar Oriental s^-urces. Thruout theOrient there is a coiamon legend of the death and resurrectioncf a god ciised on Nature - the pa: sinfr. of winter and thejjadvent of spring. So they r
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . rament, but with hardened men of thesea and with a hard-headed tax-gatherer and business manas we find in Matthew. j The proposed soluLion of the whole question as|set, for-Gh by tiie Hesu. rection Legend of the aythologicalschools i. worthy of passing observation. They propose thatthe Christian story was imported into Judaism from Babylon-ian myths and other similar Oriental s^-urces. Thruout theOrient there is a coiamon legend of the death and resurrectioncf a god ciised on Nature - the pa: sinfr. of winter and thejjadvent of spring. So they remove the last particle of hist-oricity from the Gospels and make Judaism and Christianitythe outgrowths of these syncretistic religions. In sim-ply trying to account for t e legend they lose eight 6f thefacts of the resurrection - the burial of Jesus, the emptytomb, and the appearances. Such a method of explanation on arbitraryassumption. Says Professor Orr: The Church knew its ownreligion, and could be under no vital mistake s to the j. 31 great facts on which its belief in Christ as its crucified and risen Lord rested. The apostles and evangelists arehardly thus to he taken as fools! Nor could those todaywho have felt the power of the resurrected Christ believe thatsuch rested on a niyth. Life is more than mere logic! Thereb,lity of the truth rests, not in systems of thought, butin the survey of human experience. The experience of countless thousands since the days of the apostles attestto the solemnity of this deeper and more convincing truth. J. Sparrow Simpson in his work, ^The Resurrect-ion of Jesus in odern Thought* does not agree with the avowedposition of Professor Lake in the matter of the empty assertion is that in spite of all the diversity v^hich hasbeen indicated above, we must finally admit that the narra-tives yield a uniform and very impressive tradition that thegrave was empty on Easter morning. buch, he estimates,.« requirea by the cdnte
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