Investigators: Resurrection #1

Captain's Log: Table Time ~ Monday, August 17th, 2025 ~ Vespers

¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain... ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

I was thinking we’d discuss the sermon a little in the evening. But we were home early and I had been wanting to begin a little series on the resurrection. So while the kids were watching something after lunch, I worked up the first installment, and we ran over that at dinner. We had the “Witnesses” - Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul - pitted against the “Objectors” - Roland Bodhe (stolen body), Lucy Nation (hallucination), Wong Tu (wrong tomb), Lee Ping (swoon theory), and Gord Tory (legend).

We spent the first session hearing Roland’s objection and thinking through the answers the witnesses provide. It was lively. Definitely the most engagement we’ve had together yet on the resurrection from an apologetics perspective. Repetition and leading questions are needed since we’re dealing with some abstraction and logical argument. But with these tools, the children can follow along and profit. The characters (and the jokes in the names) help a lot. I’m planning to spend one evening per week on an objector.