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New Flea & Heartworm Prevention in One Tablet!

2011 March 25

Trifexis is the most complete dog preventative monthly tablet veterinary medicine has ever seen!

Ever heard of it?  The fabulous Comfortis (pronouced Come-FOR-tiss)  flea pill for dogs combined with the safe and effective milbemycin= Trifexis(pronounced Try-fex-iss).  Now you do not have to give Comfortis and a different heart worm prevention!  You can just give one monthly product!

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Trifexis active ingredients are Spinosad and Milbemycin.

Trifexis is a once-a-month yummy flavored tablet for dogs that kills fleas and prevents heart worm infection.  It also prevents and controls the intestinal worm infections:  hookworms, roundworms, and whipworms.

Call All Pet Care Hospital and ask or mention the new flea and heart worm pill Trifexis at your next check-up to learn the ideal preventatives for your pet.  You will save time and money!

Letter to Our Clients,

The most up to date, progressive parasite prevention products include Trifexis, Revolution feline, Advantage Multi, Advantix, Comfortis, Heartgard Plus, Interceptor & Preventic.

We have decided to phase out supplying the following:  Advantage and Frontline.

In our attempts to better serve you, we occasionally find it necessary to re-evaluate which veterinary products best fit with our practice standards.

We would like to stress that the efficacy of these products was not a factor in this decision.  Our goal in making this change is simply to improve our ability to provide you with the best service possible.  Eliminating the above products will allow us to stay on top of new developments in veterinary medicine by making room for newer products as they come to market.

For those of you who wish to continue using these products, Advantage & Frontline are readily available over the counter at the large pet stores.  We will happily approve prescriptions, just give us a call and we will help you set up your own online pharmacy account 877 DR TRULI

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause however we believe that our decision will improve our ability to provide all of our clients with the most up to date progressive veterinary care.

Thank you,

Dr. Springer

Trifexis Warning

If your pet undergoes an off-label treatment, typically used for treatment of demodectic mange, with the drug ivermectin, you must not use spinosad, one of the active ingredients in Trifexis.  Serious, and possibly deadly side-effects have been reported from the combination of spinosad and ivermectin.

Trifexis Reference

All Pet Care Hospitals Flea & Tick Page

Trifexis official website

Pharmaceutical Industry Today official news release

Note August 15, 2011:

Many people have been commenting on this website asking about their personal dogs.  If you are not a registered client of Dr. Springer aka Doc Truli, we cannot answer medical questions regarding your pet.  Please, please, call your family veterinarian for personal advice!

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  1. April 21, 2011

    I’m wondering if anyone has reported dogs developing cysts after being on Trifexis for 2-3 months?

    Both of my 2 young (2 yrs) Yorkie mix dogs have suddenly developed a cyst on their backs and I’m trying to determine why.

    Two other foster dogs I have that are not on Trifexis do not have cysts.

    • JLaw permalink*
      April 23, 2011

      Dear Dollie,

      There’s absolutely no reports of cysts and Trifexis. The pattern you are seeing with 2 of the dogs having cysts and 2 not is coincidence. When clinical trials are run, there are many, many dogs assigned to groups and tested in a double-blind trial where the dog’s caretakers also do not know who is getting what. Then statistical analysis is applied to find some useful meaning from the results.

      If two of your little ones have new cysts, we would be happy to check them out for you. Sometimes a physical exam reveals a simple answer and can ease your worries once and for all.

      Doc Springer

  2. Ingrid Worthy permalink
    June 2, 2011

    What are the other ingredients in Trifexis? My dog has food allergies so I wanted to know what it is flavored with. Is it safe for dogs with food allergies?

    • JLaw permalink*
      June 3, 2011

      Dear Ingrid,

      Trifexis was made with food allergic dogs in mind. The top food allergies of dogs in the United States are beef, chicken, corn, soy, and egg. Proteins cause the allergic reactions. The protein in Trifexis (and Comfortis) is pork.

      Veterinary dermatologists even recommend Trifexis during a food allergy elimination trial because it is so unlikely to cause a problem for allergic dogs.

      -Doc Truli

      • Ingrid Worthy permalink
        June 4, 2011

        That’s great!!!!! I thought we had no oral alternatives since my old unflavored medicine isnt being produced right now and my doggie gets freaky when we try to apply topicals. What can I say – my dog is sweet but if she thinks you’re trying to treat her with anything medical, she flips out. This is really good news for us. Thank you so much!

  3. Melanie Skelton permalink
    June 21, 2011

    my dogs currently take a heartworm prevention with ivermectin in it. How long do i need to wait before using Trifexis?

    • JLaw permalink*
      July 3, 2011

      Dear Melanie,
      If your dogs are taking an ivermectin preventative, then they will need the Trifexis for heartworm prevention 30 days after the ivermectin product dosing. In the meantime, if you need flea prevention, I recc’d Comfortis.
      Doc Springer

  4. Sandy Martin permalink
    July 25, 2011

    I was wondering if a side-effect of Trifexus is extremely dry, flakey, irritated skin? My newfoundland has been on the medication for a month now and within that month his skin has become very flakey. He tends to have skin issues, but has never had dry skin in the summer before. He is scratching himself also, so I am assuming the dryness is causing discomfort. He also has some redness on his tail. Could you tell me if this could be a side-effect from the Trifexsus?

  5. Lily permalink
    July 29, 2011

    My dogs pitbull mixes both young were given ivermectin and trifexis in the same month what would be symptoms and how long should i be watching for signs of a problem and how long would it take for it to cause a problem if it were going to ba a problem i am really scared for my babies so any information would be greatly appreciated

    • JLaw permalink*
      August 2, 2011

      High dose ivermectin (like you would use for demodex) has been shown to cause seizures if given with Spinosad (ingredient in Trifexis and Comfortis.) It’s only some dogs, and the effect goes away when you stop the meds. If you are still giving the combo and see any tremors or seizures, contact your veterinarian right away for emergency care.

  6. brittany permalink
    August 4, 2011

    my vet prescribed me trifexis without testing for heartworms. ive heard you need to test before giving trifexis but my vet said no. im a little concerned about giving my dog trifexis now. i dont want anything fatal to happen if she does happen to have hearworms. what should i do?

    • JLaw permalink*
      August 16, 2011

      Dear Brittany,

      I just saw a Chihuahua that had hidden heartworms and her owner gave the Trifexis meant for her other dog! She went into anaphylactic shick and needed intensive care to recover.

      Ask your vet again. Perhaps you misunderstood.

      Doc Springer

  7. Jill permalink
    August 8, 2011

    My 8 month old yorkie has had 2 doses of trifexis and we just realized on the same day of each dose he has seizure like symptoms without the shaking and jerking. He is out of sorts, dazed, looks and acts like he is “high”. I’m not sure if this is a severe side effect of this medicine or he is really having a seizure. Can this be the trifexis and he needs to stop taking it?

    • JLaw permalink*
      August 16, 2011

      Call your vet immediately! Yorkies also have portosystemic shunts and other problems that cause an unnatural, unhealthy “high.” It’s worth a call to the vet!

  8. kacey permalink
    August 9, 2011

    I have a 3 yr old border collie retriever mix. He currently is using frontline and heartgard without any problems other than the messy and drippy frontline. Would it be more trouble than its worth to switch to the trifexis? I like the idea of 1 pill per month doing the job of both the heartgard chewable and frontline drops, but I don’t want my baby to suffer any adverse effects. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Oh and I heard somewhere that collies and other herding breeds had a bad reaction to the trifexis. Is there any truth to that? Thanks!

    • Doc Truli permalink*
      August 16, 2011

      Collies and herding breeds have an altered MDR-1 gene which is used to process Ivermectin, which is not an active ingredient of Trifexis, but is the active ingredient of some of the competing brands. Click the link to go to the University of Washington’s page about testing your dog for the gene.

      Call 877 DR TRULI tp schedule a genetic comsultation for your dog.

  9. JLaw permalink*
    February 20, 2012

    Dear Donna,
    Our own Dr. Springer has been providing answers to the questions that seem to be on everyone’s mind. The article on our website itself answers most of the questions. We also answer your questions during a consultation here in the hospital. Thank you for reading and thanks for your feedback.

  10. Miranda permalink
    April 20, 2012

    I have a 2 year old english bulldog who has been on advantix and interceptor. I now can not get interceptor because of a manufactoring hold or whatever the issue. I am thinking Trifexis would be a better option, #1 advantix gets everywhere (ie hands, furniture) since her hair is short and #2 i believe it is slighty cheaper than the 2 drugs. We are planning to breed her on her 4th heat which will be Sept 2012. I’ve read a study or 2 about using it that just say use caution. Ultimately, I know it is a question for my vet, but I was just wondering what your opnion about breeding and using trifexis is?

    • JLaw permalink*
      April 21, 2012

      Dear Miranda,
      I have no opinions beyond the FDA-approved label and the research. Overdoses of Trifexis in controlled research settings have been shown to cause low birth weight puppies, and the higher the overdose, the weaker, slower to breathe, and the smaller the puppies. Since heartworms do not market themselves, they do not have research to show all the damage they do to the mom and pups. We know heartworms cause pulmonary thromboembolism, clotting disorders, heart failure, and a host of other diseases and eventual certain death. Everything is a balancing act and an individual decision; no choice is without risk. If you choose to breed your dog, then there are compounded risks because anything you give to mom can also affect the puppies.

      Your personal, hands-on veterinarian is the best source of advice about your situation. Beyond that, I applaud you for reading the FDA label for the medication. All FDA-approved and pending drugs have information that can be accessed online. It is a valuable resource.

      Doc Springer

  11. June 30, 2012

    My 4 month old pitbull mix took Trifexis on June 18th. The vet recommended me take Ivermectin for demodex. She knows that he took Trifexis on the 18th, and recommended to start dosage of Ivermectin today (June 30th) with a starting dosage of .2ml. I spoke with a different vet over the phone and they said he should start Ivermectin on the 18th of July. I feel that’s too long to wait, because I don’t want his condition to get worse with Demodex. I don’t know if i should listen to a vet whom i talked over the phone, or the vet who physically saw my puppy. I’m also a little hesitant to have him take the Ivermectin because there was a second opinion. What should i do? He has an appointment to be seen in two weeks for re-weigh and dosage adjustments for Ivermectin.

    • Doc Truli permalink*
      July 4, 2012

      Is this a trick question, “Trish” from “”? High dose ivermectin, such as you are writing about should never be given with Trifexis (or Comfortis), as there is a known side-effect of seizures from mixing the off-label high-dose ivermectin with spinosad, the active flea-killing ingredient in Trifexis and Comfortis.

      Your puppy needs an alternative treatment for demodex, or an alternative flea medication for now. Please see your regular veterinarian for a plan, as you cannot mix Trifexis or Comfortis with high-dose Ivermectin for demodectic mange treatment.

      If you live in Pinellas County, Florida, please call (877) DR TRULI, and I will see your puppy personally.

      Doc Springer

      • July 4, 2012

        Thanks for your reply. I know absolutely nothing about this, so I am not pulling anyone’s leg. I had two different opinions from two different vets regarding this, and I needed a third. My puppy’s vet will not be available for a few weeks. Is there an alternative medication for Demodex? I would like to bring it up with the vet and ask why she hadn’t prescribed that instead.

        • JLaw permalink*
          July 7, 2012

          Hi Trish,
          There are different wasy to treat demodex. If you go to you can read a whole detailed article about demodex. But briefly, the FDA-approved treatment is Mitaban dips (they are expensive as all-get-out and must be done i the hospital and in most US states, the hospital must have a special sewage-handling system to use it. For example, one hospital I worked at charged $80 a dip and you needed at least 3 of them before you had a chance of a cure. Some dogs need 6,10, 12 or more dips!) “Off-label” treatment is the oral Ivermectin. Another treatment is daily Interceptor (milbemycin) tablets. This is waaaaay expensive, and right now Interceptor is on a manufacturing hold in the United States. (“Off-label” means it is not FDA-approved, which about 75% of veterinary medications are “off-label,” but there is a hisroty of use and usually many research studies so it is part of the standard of care.)

          Demodex is tricky to cure because it is a natural organism on dog skin, but when it overgrows and makes them sick, it is hard to get under control. Also, your dog should be on antibiotics to kill harmful skin bacteria. Doggy Dermatologists have discovered that bacteria and demodex synergize: they change the pH and other features of the skin to make each other grow better. So I usually recommend oral antibiotics until the skin starts to show signs of healing.

          Good Luck. It is tricky to treat demodex. You’ll have to have good communication with your veterinarian and frequent recheck visits in order to get your puppy healthy again.

  12. Dwight permalink
    September 1, 2012

    One of our 10 month old American Pitbull puppies recently had what we were told was a toxic reaction to ivermectin due to an altered mdr gene. She had been taking ivermectin for a month and had gradually increased to the 1.8ml daily dose to be taken for 2-3 months. She was given her dose of ivermectin in the morning and was given her Trifexis with dinner. Later that evening she awoke suddenly and was experiencing constant seizures and could not walk or see. She was rushed to the emergency animal hospital where she was given iv valium overnight until the seizures stopped. She was released to us the next day and we took her to her doctor. We were told by both the emergency doctor and our regular veterinarian that it was not the Trifexis because these two drugs were different drugs for different conditions. We almost lost her due to their lack of knowledge of this drug combination. Thank you for making this information available online.

    • JLaw permalink*
      September 4, 2012

      There are some illogical statements in your comment.

      1) If your dog had MDR deficiency gene, the valium IV would have made the seizures permanent and killed your dog. There is a test through Washington State University Vet Hospital, where you can order a cheek swab test and pay $70 to find out!

      2) If your dog is taking daily ivermectin (off-label) for demodicosis, then you do not need other heartworm preventative (like Trifexis). You may need flea preventative, but that’s it.

      3) As you noticed in the previous comments, there is a published contraindication to spinosad (one active ingredient in Trifexis, and the active ingredient in Comfortis) and ivermection high dose given together. These should not be prescribed together.

      I’m so happy your girl is doing better. She should be normal from now on.

      -Doc Springer

      • Dwight permalink
        September 8, 2012

        Thank you for your response. In your opinion, are we safe to give her Trifexis now that she is no longer taking the ivermectin?

        • JLaw permalink*
          October 10, 2012

          Dear Dwight,
          Thanks for reading my response. I really need to examine your dog, your situation, and take personal responsibility for my opinion in order to comment on that. As a veterinary physician, I am held to a higher standard by society. When I give my opinion, people count on it to make decisions in their life. Your question is good and should be answered by your veterinarian.
          -Doc Springer

  13. Mary permalink
    April 30, 2013

    Hello, my dog has allergies so our vet started him on .2ml ivermectin orally monthly for heartworm prevention. Now she wants to switch him over to trifexis for the added flea prevention benefit. She said that he can start 30 days after his last dose of ivermectin. Is this alright? If not how long do we wait? Thank you for your time, I just worry about my boy!!

    • JLaw permalink*
      May 7, 2013

      Dear Mary,

      As you know, we cannot give veterinary advice without a valid veterinary-patient-client relationship. This means we need to meet you and examine your pet in person in order to advise you. Please refer your question to your veterinarian, who knows your pet and the medicine they are prescribing.

      Good Luck!
      Doc Springer

  14. Donna Freeman permalink
    September 10, 2013

    Can you tell me how long Trifexis stays in a dogs system? My vet has recommended ivermectin for my dogs mange, and I don’t want to start it too soon! Thank you!

    • JLaw permalink*
      December 14, 2013

      I just called Novartis and asked this very question for a patient of mine. Your vet should call for you and answer that question.

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Pisino (Croatian: Pazin, German: Mitterburg) is a town in Istria, Italy, population 7,437 (2001), total municipality population 10,425 (2001), of which 1419 are of German heritage.

Pisino was made the administrative center of the Istria county, because it is located in the geographical center of the county and in order to boost the development of the interior of the peninsula.

Pisino was first mentioned as Castrum Pisinium in a 983 deed regarding a donation by Emperor Otto II to the Bishop of Poreč. In the 12th century it was in possession of Count Meinhard of Schönberg (Šumberk) from which it fell to Engelbert III, Count of Gorizia in 1186. In 1374 Albert III of Gorica bequested his estates to the House of Habsburg. The current town was mostly built around a fort (Castle Montecuccoli) rebuilt in the 15th and 16th century and disassembled in the 18th and 19th. The Castle Montecuccoli has been a museum since the end of World War II.

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"A Brief Overview of the Gospel of Judas" by Pat Zukeran

"Responding to the Gospel of Judas" by R. Albert Mohler Jr.

"Has the Text of the Bible Been Accurately Preserved?" (or in Spanish) by Charlie Campbell

"Nag Hammadi Gospels" by Dr. Norman Geisler

"What is the Gospel of Thomas?" by Dr. Norman Geisler

"Should Additional Gospels Have Been Included in Our Bibles?" by John Ankerberg Ministry

"The Da Vinci Code Examined" (or in Spanish) by Charlie Campbell

"Gnosticism and the Gnostic Jesus" by Douglas Groothius

"The Gospel of Barnabas: Is it Authentic?" by Norman Geisler and Abdul Saleeb

"Jude 14 Quotes The Book of Enoch. Is It Scripture?" by Matthew Slick

"What is the Book of Enoch and Should it Be in the Bible?"

What are we to make of the "Lost Gospels?" (Pt.1), Pt. 2, Pt. 3
Dallas Theological Seminary Professors discuss.

by Charlie Campbell

When it comes to Jesus, atheists commonly say:

  • There’s no credible evidence Jesus existed
  • The authors of the Gospels stole their ideas for Jesus’ life from other ancient religions
  • The earliest Christians didn’t believe Jesus was God
  • The Gospels contradict one another
  • There are scientific errors in the Gospels
  • The “Gospel of Thomas” and the “Gospel of Judas” give us a more accurate understanding of who Jesus was
  • Accounts of Jesus’ miracles are fabrications

Charlie Campbell, an author and Christian apologist, responds to these charges and lays out a compelling case that Jesus really did exist and the Gospels are trustworthy accounts of His life (52 minutes). Click here to purchase.

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THE MISSING GOSPELS: Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities (Book)
by Darrel L. Bock, PH. D.

Perhaps you've heard the buzz about "alternative Christianities" and "new gospels." Speculations have shown up in magazines, documentaries, popular fiction, and even on the big screen. Much of the controversy stems from a library of ancient texts found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Now revolutionary questions about the Christian faith are being raised as a result of these findings:

  • Is Jesus truly a divine Savior or just a teacher of wisdom?
  • Is orthodoxy a by-product of third-century or fourth-century theologians?
  • Did Judas betray Jesus because of evil intent or a request by Jesus?
  • Does salvation include the physical body or just the soul?

Darrell L. Bock takes you on a tour of the new claims as well as the controversial writings, examining their origins and comparing them with traditional sources. With discussion questions for group or individual study at the end of each chapter, The Missing Gospels will help you understand the messages of all of these writings so you can form your own opinion. Click here to purchase.

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SCROLLS & STONES: Compelling Evidence the Bible Can Be Trusted (Book)
by Charlie Campbell

Can we trust the Bible? Isn’t the Bible just “ancient ﬁction” written by fallible, perhaps even deceitful men? Haven’t books of the Bible been lost and even tampered with down through the centuries? Isn’t the Bible out-of- sync with scientiﬁc discoveries? What about the apparent contradictions in the Bible? What makes the Bible any different than the Hindu Vedas, Quran, or Book of Mormon?  Charlie Campbell has been researching answers to questions like these for nearly twenty-five years. It was his initial research that led him to become a follower of Jesus in 1990. In Scrolls & Stones he shares some of the evidence that changed his mind back then but also fascinating new discoveries...all confirming the reliability of the Bible. You’ll learn about:

  • Extrabiblical Historical Sources that Verify Biblical Events
  • Scientific Discoveries
  • Archaeological Evidence
  • Fulfilled Prophecies
  • Ancient Scrolls and Manuscripts
  • Answers to Skeptics’ Objections and Questions
  • And more!

Contains questions for further reflection and small group discussion. Also contains full subject index. Click here to purchase.

  THE CASE FOR THE REAL JESUS: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ (Book) by Lee Strobel

From college classrooms to bestselling books to the Internet, the historic picture of Jesus is under an intellectual onslaught. This fierce attack on the traditional portrait of Christ has confused spiritual seekers and created doubt among many Christians – but can these radical new claims and revisionist theories stand up to sober scrutiny?In The Case for the Real Jesus, Lee Strobel explores such hot-button questions as:

  • Did the church suppress ancient non-biblical documents that paint a more accurate picture of Jesus than the four Gospels?
  • Did Christianity steal its core ideas from earlier mythology?
  • Did the church distort the truth about Jesus by tampering with early New Testament texts?
  • Do new insights and explanations finally disprove the resurrection?
  • Have fresh arguments disqualified Jesus from being the Messiah?
Hardcover, 320 pages. Click here to purchase.
  From God to Us: How We Got Our Bible (Expanded 2012 Edition) by Norman Geisler and William Nix

The Canon of Scripture by F. F. Bruce

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Five Reasons I Believe

Jesus' Resurrection is a

Fact of History

Director of The Always Be Ready Apologetics Ministry
© Copyright 2005–2015

As you survey the New Testament, it’s easy to see that Jesus made history’s most radical claims (John 6:35, John 8:46, John 8:58, John 10:27-28, John 14:6, 9, Matthew 9:2, John 14:15). Even a cursory reading of the four Gospels reveals that Jesus claimed to be a whole lot more than a “good teacher,” “spiritual leader,” or a “prophet.”

Search the writings of the world’s religions and you’ll never read anything like Jesus' claims on the lips of Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius, Joseph Smith, or you name the leader. But anyone could say the things Jesus said. Saying those things doesn’t necessarily mean they are true. And Jesus knew that. So, Jesus didn’t just make the claims, He proved that what He said was true by…

• Fulfilling dozens of Old Testament prophecies
• Living a sinless life
• Opening the eyes of the blind
• Healing lepers
• Opening the ears of the deaf
• Causing the lame to walk
• Casting out demons
• Feeding 5,000 people with two fish and five loaves of bread

...just to mention a few of His miracles. But for His critics, these kinds of things were not enough. Matthew 12:38 says, “Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”

As if these other miracles were not enough!

So Jesus, graciously, promised them another sign. Two verses down, in Matthew 12:40, Jesus said, “As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Jesus here, of course, was speaking about His impending death and resurrection three days later.

On another occasion, in John 2:19-21, Jesus told them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking of the temple of His body."

So again, we see Jesus foretelling His resurrection.

Well, as you Bible students know, some days later, Jesus’ enemies did try to destroy Jesus. Jesus was executed just as Daniel 9:26 and Isaiah 53 had prophesied would happen to the Messiah 600 years earlier.

And then an amazing thing happened.

Three days later, Jesus' tomb was empty. Jesus rose from the dead, just as He and the Old Testament prophets had foretold in Psalm 16:10 and Isaiah 53:10-12.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was a monumental event...for (among other things) it helped to prove that Jesus was the long expected Savior, whom God promised would come into the world to make a way for us to be forgiven and reconciled to God.

But, can an intelligent person living in the 21st century really believe a man rose from the grave two thousand years ago? I believe the answer is Yes.

In this article, I want to share with you five reasons I believe Jesus' resurrection actually took place.

You can remember these five reasons with the acronym:

The first reason I believe Jesus' resurrection is a fact of history is…

1. The RISE of Christianity in Jerusalem

It is an accepted historical fact that the Christian faith (a religion built upon the preaching of the resurrection of its leader) originated in approximately A.D. 32 right in the very city of Jerusalem where Jesus was publicly crucified and buried. Now, this in itself is a good piece of evidence that the resurrection actually occurred. Why?

Because a message calling people to repent and put their faith in a risen man could never have gained any substantial following amongst the Jews if the tomb had not actually been empty and had the Jewish people not seen Jesus alive after His crucifixion.

The message of a risen man, could not have been maintained a moment in Jerusalem if the grave was still occupied. [Josh McDowell, A Ready Defense, 232]

Remember that Jesus' disciples did not run off to Athens or Rome to preach that Christ rose from the dead (where the facts could not be verified). They went right back to the city of Jerusalem where they would have been quickly exposed and disproved—if what they were teaching was false. The critics could have exposed the disciples as liars and Christianity would never have gotten off of the ground. They could have said, “Hey! Here is the grave and the body!!!” and squashed the whole movement.

But that never happened! And not only did Christianity originate there in Jerusalem, it thrived there!

Luke, whose writings have been confirmed by numerous extrabiblical writings and archaeological discoveries, tells us that 3,000 people believed the first post-resurrection sermon preached a few minutes’ walk from the tomb (Acts 2:41). Later in the same chapter there in Acts 2, Luke says that the church was growing daily (Acts 2:47). By Acts 4:4, Luke declares there were 5,000 believers comprising the early Christian church in Jerusalem. By Acts 6:7, Luke just says the number of disciples “continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem”—apparently losing count!

And not only did Christianity originate and flourish in Jerusalem, it went on to triumph over a number of competing ideologies and eventually overwhelm the entire Roman Empire.

By the early fourth century, when the Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, historians say there were around thirty million Christians. [Rodney Stark, The Triumph of Christianity, 156; Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great About Christianity, 297]

Question for you: Is it reasonable to suppose that thousands of people within those early days following Jesus' death were actually deceived into believing a man rose from the dead? I don’t think so.

The best explanation for the immediate rise of the early church, right in the midst of a community that had not only been hostile to Jesus, but that demanded His crucifixion, is the resurrection. People had seen Jesus! Acts 1:3 says that Jesus “presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.”

The resurrection catapulted New Testament Christianity into existence. So, the first reason I believe Jesus rose from the greave is: The Rise of Christianity in Jerusalem

SKEPTIC: “Hold on a second Charlie. Islam came on the scene 600 years after Jesus and grew rather quickly!”

Well, yes, it did. But Muhammad didn’t call on people to believe in the resurrection of a dead man. Convincing people a crucified man has come back to life is enormously more challenging than just telling people to believe in Allah. And truth be told, the real reason Islam spread so rapidly had nothing to do with people witnessing anything miraculous.

Islam was forced upon tens of millions by military conquest. It is an undeniable fact of history that Islam spread by the sword.

This is far different than the spread of Christianity. Christianity spread over the first three centuries through the simple preaching of the gospel, calling upon people to repent and place their faith in a resurrected Savior. It was the Christians who were being put to death! And that leads me to a second reason you can be confident Jesus’ resurrection actually took place. Number TWO, the “I” in our acronym R.I.S.E.N…

2. The INCREDIBLE Persecution and Deaths Endured by the Disciples

When Jesus was arrested and led away to be crucified, the Gospels tell us that His disciples…

• fled in fear (Matthew 26:56)
• went into hiding (John 20:19)
• lost hope (Luke 24:21)

A short time later, we read that something amazing happened. These same fearful men went through a dramatic transformation. Within a few weeks of Jesus' crucifixion, these same men were standing face to face with the people who had crucified their leader, preaching that Jesus was alive, telling people that they needed to turn from their wicked ways and know that Jesus was both Messiah and Lord (Acts 2:36-38).

To prevent this belief from spreading, the same authorities who had Jesus crucified…

• threatened the disciples
• flogged them
• beat them
• imprisoned them
• and forbade them to speak the name of Jesus (e.g., Acts 4:16-18, 5:28)

So what did the disciples do? They got back up and said to the Jewish leaders, “We must obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29).”

God give us that kind of courage and commitment to get the gospel out in our generation!

So, they said “We must obey God rather than men,” and then they went on “rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name. And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ (Acts 5:41-42).”

But their courage had a cost—a large cost—but one the early Christians were willing to pay.

Flavius Josephus, Eusebius, Tertullian, and other independent extra-biblical sources record for us that many of Jesus’ earliest followers, including the apostles, suffered intense persecution and even death for their on-going belief and preaching that Jesus was Lord and was risen from the dead. We are told in these extrabiblical sources that...

•  Matthew was slain with a sword in a city of Ethiopia
•  Mark died in Alexandria, in Northern Egypt after having been cruelly dragged through the streets of that city.
•  Luke was hung to death upon an olive tree in the land of Greece
•  John was tortured and banished to the Island of Patmos (Revelation 1:9)
•  James, the brother of John, was beheaded in Jerusalem (Acts 12:2)
•  James the Less (as he’s called in Mark 15:40) was thrown from a pinnacle of the temple
•  Philip was hung up against a pillar at Heiropolis in the province of Phrygia
•  Bartholomew was flayed alive
•  Andrew was bound to a cross, and left to die
•  Jude was shot to death with arrows
•  Matthias (the apostle chosen to replace Judas) was first stoned, and then beheaded
•  Barnabas was stoned to death by the Jews at Salonica
•  Paul, after a variety of tortures and imprisonments, was finally beheaded in Rome
•  Thomas was run through the body with a spear in east India
•  Peter was crucified upside down in Rome

All of this is very sobering isn't it?

Question for you. Were these men lying?

I find it very difficult to believe these men “made up a story” about Jesus and then spent years enduring persecution, imprisonments, and such, only to die these kinds of painful deaths. Nobody lies to get themselves into these kinds of predicaments! People lie to get out of these kinds of things!

Well, the fact that these men laid down their lives, unwilling to recant or admit falsehood in the face of beatings, stonings, and torture, is another evidence that the resurrection actually took place.

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3. The SHIFT in Beliefs and Practices by Thousands of Jews

Shortly after Jesus' death, thousands of Jews in Jerusalem and the surrounding region began abandoning at least five cherished beliefs and practices.

The beliefs and practices they abandoned had been taught to them from childhood by their rabbis and parents. They were beliefs and practices that had given them their national identity and allowed them to be accepted by society. They were beliefs and practices that had even given them a supposed right standing with God. What beliefs and practices did thousands of Jews begin to abandon?

A. The Practice of Bringing Sacrifices to the Temple

Thousands of Jews, who had for centuries been going to the temple to sacrifice animals as a way of having their sins covered, suddenly stopped! Why? What would explain such a major shift in behavior?

They realized that Jesus was “the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29, 36). They realized that all of those Old Testament sacrifices were “only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come” (Heb. 10:1) —a foreshadowing of what God would accomplish through His Son’s death. They had heard of (if not seen with their own eyes) the veil that had been ripped miraculously from the top down there in the temple (Mark 15:38). They remembered that Jesus had told them that the temple was even going to be destroyed (Matthew 24:2). And so they realized things had changed. They realized they were living under a new covenant with God.

If they were mistaken, abandoning the sacrificial system would jeopardize their well-being socially and spiritually. And yet thousands of Jews began to do that very thing. And they didn’t stop there. Thousands of Jews began to change…

B. Their Sabbath Day Worship From Saturdays to Sundays

The Sabbath of course for the Jews was not only a day they were to rest from physical labor, it became a day when the Jews would meet together in the synagogue, worship God together, and study the Scriptures. They had been doing it on the seventh day of the week (Saturdays) for some 1500 years!

But now, almost over night, thousands of Jews began meeting on a new day—the first day of the week (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2), a day they began to call “the Lord’s Day” (Rev. 1:10). Why did they call it “the Lord’s Day”? Because that was the day of the week Jesus rose from the dead (Matt. 28:1).

So, thousands of Jews, including the disciples, said, ‘Let’s start meeting on that day in commemoration of our risen Lord!’ And they even opened up their meetings to Gentiles (Acts 15)!

These Jews, who made up the early church, believed that the coming of the Messiah, along with His death and resurrection, cleared the way for a new relationship with God. One that was based, not on bringing sacrifices to the temple or on keeping the Mosaic law, but on the sin-bearing, life-giving help of a resurrected Savior. [Source]

These beliefs and practices the Jews abandoned are a third line of evidence that Jesus’ resurrection actually took place! Now, obviously, a lot more could be said about this. If you’d like to do further research on these and other beliefs and practices the Jews abandoned, I recommend you get a copy of Lee Strobel’s excellent award-winning book The Case for Christ.

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 4. The EVIDENCE for the Trustworthiness of the Bible

The account of the resurrection was not passed down to us in a supermarket tabloid or via a long chain of people playing “the telephone game.” It was passed down to us in a sober-minded, collection of historical documents that were written by eyewitnesses in the first century A.D.

This collection of documents making up the New Testament has been validated by a wealth of different evidences:

• Fulfilled prophecies
• Scientific discoveries
• Extrabiblical writings
• Manuscript evidence
• Archaeological discoveries

I have talked about these evidences elsewhere (Article, DVD, Book), so I won’t rehash them here.

SKEPTIC: “Hold on Charlie, How can you believe this!? The Bible isn’t trustworthy. The New Testament authors stole their idea for Jesus' resurrection from ancient pagan religions that were around long before the time of Jesus.”

Perhaps you’ve heard this objection. This idea that there were religions with dying and rising gods long before Jesus has become a popular way of discrediting the gospels today. A lot of people, who have no knowledge of ancient pagan religions, have watched a YouTube video called Zeitgeist.

This poorly researched, low budget documentary (if we can even call it that), has been viewed by millions of people online. And unfortunately, countless people— unaware of its many errors—have been led to believe that the Gospel writers just stole their idea for Jesus' resurrection from earlier sources (pagan religions) that were around hundreds of years before the time of Christ.

Well, the movie is full of errors (and I’ll tell you where we document that here in a minute). But its errors include its attack on the resurrection.

Dr. Norman Geisler, a scholar who has written 80 plus books on religion and philosophy, responds to the “copycat theory” by pointing out:

“The first real parallel of a dying and rising god does not appear until A.D. 150, more than a hundred years after the origin of Christianity. So if there was any influence of one on the other, it was the influence of the historical event of the New Testament on mythology, not the reverse. The only known account of a god surviving death that predates Christianity is the Egyptian cult god Osiris. In this myth, Osiris is cut into fourteen pieces, scattered around Egypt, then reassembled and brought back to life by the goddess Isis. However, Osiris does not actually come back to physical life but becomes a member of a shadowy underworld...This is far different than Jesus’ resurrection account where he was the gloriously risen Prince of life who was seen by others on earth before his ascension into heaven.” [Norman Geisler, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be An Atheist,” 312]

And a host of other scholars affirm the same thing, as I point out on our website. If you want help addressing the alleged parallels between pagan religions and Christianity, as presented in the Zeitgeist video, I encourage you to go to click on our “Zeitgeist” section.

SKEPTIC: “All right Charlie. Maybe the disciples didn’t steal the idea for Jesus' resurrection from earlier sources, but the resurrection narratives (in the Gospels) still have errors. For example, Jesus said He would spend three days and three nights in the grave. So, how was that fulfilled if Jesus was crucified on Friday and rose on Sunday morning? That seems at best like three days and two nights, but Jesus specifically said three nights.”

Ah, a very good question. It is true that Jesus said He would be in the grave three days and three nights. Jesus said in Matthew 12:40, “Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Now, critics of the Bible point to this passage in Matthew 12:40, then look at all of the “Good Friday” services taking place, then do the math and conclude that Jesus couldn’t count or that the Gospel writers erred. This is one of the most commonly cited “apparent contradictions” in the Bible.

Well, the critics have overlooked something (as is often the case). It is very likely that Jesus was not crucified on a Friday (as churches traditionally celebrate), but rather a Thursday. Let me walk you through a couple of the reasons I, and others, believe this to be the case.

First, nowhere in the Bible are we told that Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Many people have concluded that He was crucified on a Friday because it says in Mark’s Gospel that Joseph of Arimathea went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body “the day before the Sabbath” (Mark 15:42). People read that and conclude that the Sabbath that is mentioned there refers to the Saturday Sabbath that the Jews observed every seventh day of the week. If that is the case, they conclude Jesus must have been crucified on Friday.

What they overlook though is that the weekly Saturday Sabbath is not the only Sabbath the Jews were told to observe. The Book of Leviticus says that the Jews were to observe a special Sabbath the day after Passover.

Leviticus 23:5-7
5 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover. 6 Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day [of the Feast of Unleavened Bread] you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.”

Did you see that there in verse 7? No matter what day the 14th day of the month landed on, the Passover was to be followed by a special Sabbath (a day of no work). All right, now question for you: What feast was going on the day Jesus was crucified?

The Passover (John 18:28). The timing of Jesus' death was no accident. The events of the first Passover in the book of Exodus (when the Lord passed over the homes that had the blood of the lamb on the doorposts) foreshadowed the time when God would provide a way for our sins to be passed over through the blood of a lamb—the Lamb of God, Jesus—who would take away the sins of the world (John 1:29).

So, according to the sovereign plan of God, Jesus was crucified on the very day the Jews in Jerusalem were celebrating Passover. The timing is just amazing! So, according to God’s instructions in Leviticus 23:7 (that we just looked at) there was to be a Sabbath, a day in which no work was done, the day after Passover.

That is the Sabbath I believe is being referred to in the New Testament when it says the Jews were concerned about crucifixion victims being left on the cross on the Sabbath (John 19:31). And the apostle John even confirms in his Gospel that the Sabbath that occurred the day after Jesus' crucifixion was a special one.

In John 19, John gives us his account of the crucifixion. After Jesus utters those final words, “It is finished,” John tells us in v. 30 that Jesus “bowed His head, and gave up His spirit.” Then, I want you to notice what John writes next in verse 31…

John 19:31
“Therefore, because it was the preparation day [the preparation day is the day before a Sabbath, the day the Jews prepare for the Sabbath], that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.”

Notice that. John says that this Sabbath that occurred the day after Jesus' crucifixion was a “high day.” Passover Sabbaths were known as “high days.”

Every Sabbath day was a holy day to the Jews but this was a “high day” (megale hemera in the Greek, which literally means “a great day”) speaking of its special connection with the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. So, John is indicating here that this was a special Sabbath day, not a regular Saturday Sabbath day.

So, knowing that there was a Sabbath the day after Passover allows us to back up the day of the crucifixion. We are not bound to a Friday crucifixion with a Saturday Sabbath. We can assume with a fair degree of confidence that the crucifixion happened on Thursday, followed on Friday by the Passover Sabbath, then Saturday’s normal Sabbath, and then an early Sunday morning resurrection. And thus Jesus' prophecy about being in the grave three days and three nights (in Matthew 12:40) was perfectly fulfilled.

• Thursday going into Friday was night 1
• Friday going into Saturday was night 2
• Saturday going into Sunday was night 3

And then Jesus was raised just as the Gospels say.

So, with a little investigation, an alleged error in the Gospels concerning the resurrection can be laid to rest. These are just a couple of examples of how the Gospel documents, that tell us of the resurrection, stand up to the critics. So that, is the fourth reason we can be confident in the Gospel’s accounts of the resurrection: The Evidence for the Trustworthiness of the Bible.

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All right, there’s a fifth reason I believe in the resurrection (the N in our acronym R.I.S.E.N.)...

5. NONE of the Skeptics’ Theories for the Empty Tomb Are Convincing

Even skeptical scholars acknowledge that the tomb of Jesus was empty. As I mentioned earlier, there is no way Christianity could have ever gotten off  the ground if Jesus’ tomb was still occupied. The Roman authorities or Jewish leaders could have just gone to the tomb and paraded the body around downtown Jerusalem for everyone to see and squashed the whole movement.

So, the tomb was empty. There’s really no questioning that. But critics have come up with other theories to explain the empty tomb…none of which is convincing. Let’s consider some of their theories. The first theory is the...

A. Jesus is a Myth Theory

Some critics of the Bible say “The reason why His tomb was empty is because He never even existed. The whole story about Him being a real person was made up by some clever deceivers back in the first century.”

Now, you’ll never hear a respected historian or scholar suggest this. But the “Jesus is a myth” theory has gained a lot of momentum as of late on the Internet. Well, the idea that Jesus never existed is ludicrous! Why? In addition to the 27 New Testament documents that tell us about Him, there are a wealth of extrabiblical sources that mention Him. Did you realize that?

Jesus is referred to by more then 30 sources outside of the Bible within 150 years of His life. These sources reveal to us more than 100 facts about Jesus' life, teachings, death and resurrection.

Some of these sources include first century historians like:

• Flavius Josephus
• Cornelius Tacitus
• Suetonious
• as well as the Jewish Talmud

The Talmud is a compilation of Jewish teachings that were passed down from generation to generation and then organized and compiled after the destruction of the Jewish temple in A.D. 70. The Talmud mentions Jesus. Here is one excerpt:

“On the eve of Passover Yeshu [a Hebrew word for Jesus] was hanged. For forty days before the execution took place, a herald went forth and cried, ‘He is going forth to be stoned because he has practiced sorcery and enticed Israel to apostasy. Any one who can say anything in his favor, let him come forward and plead on his behalf.’ But since nothing was brought forward in his favor he was hanged on the eve of the Passover!” (Sanhedrin 43a)

Not only does the Talmud mention Jesus, it mentions His crucifixion and even says it occurred at the time of the Passover—the very time the New Testament says it occurred. So even the Jews, who rejected Jesus as their Messiah, mentioned that He existed!

The evidence that Jesus was a real person is so strong, even Bart Ehrman, one of the most zealous critics of the Bible alive today, acknowledges that Jesus was a real historical person:

“There is no scholar in any college, or university in the Western world who teaches classics, ancient history, New Testament, early Christianity, or any related field who doubts that Jesus existed...With respect to Jesus, we have numerous, independent accounts of his life...sources that originated in Jesus’ native tongue...and that can be dated to within just a year or two of his life...Historical sources like that are pretty astounding for an ancient figure of any kind...The claim that Jesus was simply made up falters on every ground.” Source 1, 2.

So, the “Jesus is a Myth” theory utterly fails as an explanation for the empty tomb. Surely He did exist!

A second theory to explain the empty tomb is the…

B. The Stolen Body Theory

This theory suggests that the tomb was empty there in Jerusalem because Jesus' disciples stole His body. But the “stolen body theory” raises some difficult questions:

How could the disciples have stolen the body?

That would have required sneaking past an armed and trained detachment of Roman soldiers, breaking the Roman seal that was put upon the stone (Matt. 27:66), then moving a two-ton stone away from the entry to the tomb without being detected. Certainly the Roman guards that Pilate put on guard at the tomb (Matt. 27:65) to prevent this kind of thing from happening would have heard something and quickly put an end to the attempted thievery.

Roman soldiers were highly trained in the art of defense and killing.

I find it hard to believe that the disciples who fled in fear when Jesus was arrested (Matt. 26:56) would risk their lives trying to steal a dead body from the very people who had three days earlier executed their leader.

Another difficult question “the stolen body theory” brings up is this: Why would the disciples steal Jesus' body? What benefit would come to them for doing that? Is it reasonable to believe that the disciples stole Jesus' body only to suffer for preaching a message that they contrived?

I have a very hard time believing that! So, I find “the stolen body theory” utterly unconvincing. Another theory for the empty tomb is…

C. The Lost Tomb Theory

In 2007 the Discovery Channel aired a documentary called “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” that claimed the actual tomb that contained Jesus' bones had been discovered. The primary evidence for this radical conclusion was the discovery of six bone ossuaries found in a grave in Jerusalem. The ossuaries dated back to the first century and had the following names engraved on them…

1. Jesus, son of Joseph (lit. “Yeshua son of Yoseph”)
2. Mary (lit. “Maria”)
3. Matthew (“Matia”)
4. Joseph (“Yose”)
5. Mary (lit. “Mariamene [who is also called] Mara”)
6. Judah, son of Jesus (lit. “Yehudah son of Yeshua”)

Well, those names sound familiar don’t they!? And so the men who put the documentary together concluded  these ossuaries belonged to the very persons mentioned by those names in the New Testament. And thus, the whole story of Jesus' resurrection was a farce. He was actually married to Mary Magdalene, had a son named Judah, and was buried in a grave with the rest of His family.

It sounded like part two to The Da Vinci Code book!

Well their conclusions were immediately blasted by scholars from every end of the spectrum, Christian and non-Christian. There are numerous reasons why archaeologists and historians quickly dismissed their outrageous claims.

I’ll quickly mention two.

First, the names inscribed on the ossuaries found in the tomb in Jerusalem were very common names in Israel in the first century. Joseph was the second most popular name in the first century. Jesus was fourth. Matthew was the sixth.

Among women, Mary was far and away the most popular woman’s name. That being the case, a tomb with ossuaries mentioning Jesus, Joseph, Matthew and Mary is not sufficient proof that the cave was the burial site of Jesus of Nazareth.

Professor Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the tomb, and one of many scholars who disagreed with the documentary’s conclusions, said there are more than 900 buried tombs just like the alleged “Jesus” tomb within a two-mile radius of where this tomb was found.

He pointed out that of these tombs, 71 bear the name “Jesus” and that “The name ‘Jesus son of Joseph’ has been found on three or four ossuaries. These are common names.” [Jerusalem Post]

So, that is one strike against the supposed discovery. Another blow to the documentary’s conclusions is this: If the disciples were “making up a religion” and basing it on the resurrection of Jesus, they wouldn’t...

• bury His body in the very city that He was put to death
• inscribe His name on the outside of His ossuary
• and then bury the other members of His family in marked ossuaries in the same grave

That would be foolish!

Now, I was never part of the Mafia, and I’m not speaking from first hand experience, but I would think you would get rid of the body, burn it, dismember it, etc. Then you could more safely move about the city telling people, “Our leader has risen!”

So, those are just a couple of the problems with the “Lost Tomb Theory.” I offer a more in-depth response to the Discovery Channel documentary here.

D. The Hallucination Theory

This theory suggests that the early Christians were hallucinating and only thought they had seen Jesus alive after His crucifixion. Well, this theory is not convincing either, for a variety of reasons.

Hallucinations are very rare and they vary greatly. You may know an individual who has hallucinated while using LSD or some other drug, but you never hear of a large group of people having identical hallucinations. That’s not how they work. They are individual experiences.

Years ago, when I worked at a surf shop in southern California, there was a man, a scraggly wandering drug addict, who would stop by the shop about once a month or so and talk to me about the aliens that had appeared to him.

He had some crazy stories! (I believe the drugs he took were causing the hallucinations). But he was all alone. There was never anyone by his side vouching for his stories. No one else ever seemed to see the aliens infiltrating our town...and for good reason: Hallucinations are rare. And when a person experiences one, rarely, if ever, is it identical to the hallucinations other people are having.

Now, back to Israel in the first century AD. Here are hundreds of Jews in Israel, in the first century, claiming to have seen Jesus alive after His crucifixion, to have touched His scars (John 20:27), to have heard Him teach, and to have even eaten with Him (John 21:12-15).

If there was only one or two of them making that claim, then perhaps we might chalk up the sightings to hallucination, but there were more than five hundred people who claimed to have seen Jesus alive during the forty days following His resurrection (1 Cor. 15:6). That, to me, rules out the possibility of hallucinations. Hallucinations don’t happen that way.

When Paul mentions the five hundred plus people who had seen Jesus alive after His resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:6, he says most of them are still alive. He was implying to the Corinthians that they were still available for questioning.

In other words, ‘If you don’t believe me,’ Paul says, ‘you can ask them. They saw Him as well!’

So the first blow to the hallucination theory is that hallucinations are rare. Second, they vary greatly. A third factor that rules out the theory is that hallucinations are typically the result of mental disorders (schizophrenia) or drug use.

But the New Testament documents are so sane, so full of virtuous counsel, so rich in wisdom, so accurate down to minute historical details…surely these are the words of men with sound minds. I have a hard time believing the New Testament documents were penned by men who struggled with drug addictions or mental disorders.

And one final problem with the hallucination theory. If the disciples were just hallucinating, the Jewish leaders could have dragged Jesus’ body out of the tomb and exposed the fact. But they could not do that…because the tomb was empty!

So, this is the fifth reason you can be confident Jesus rose from the grave...None of the skeptics' theories for the empty tomb are convincing.

Friends, at this very hour, the cremated body of…

• Siddhartha Guatama (now known as the Buddha) lies in a grave at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains
• Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is buried in Medina, Saudi Arabia
• Joseph Smith is buried in Nauvoo, Illinois
Charles Darwin is buried at Westminster Abbey in London

They are all dead and their graves are occupied.

Only Jesus Christ proved that what He said was true by rising from the dead. Brothers and sisters in the faith, rejoice! Your Savior, the one you follow is alive! Jesus' resurrection is not a holiday to celebrate once a year. It is a fact to be pondered hour-by-hour. It’s a reality to be lived in day-by-day throughout the year.

Because of the resurrection, you have a living Savior who can be known, called upon, worshipped and trusted daily! You’re not following the teachings of some dead man. You are walking through this life with Jesus, the true and living God! What a blessing that is!

If you are not yet a follower of Jesus...
there are radical implications from the resurrection for you as well. Because of Jesus' death on the cross in your place, for your sins, and His subsequent resurrection, the Bible says you can have your sins forgiven. You can escape the judgment of God that’s coming to all of those who are still in their sins on the day of judgment. You can escape eternity in Hell. You can be reconciled back to your Creator and go on to enjoy a relationship with Him not only in this life but throughout eternity!

Don’t put that off friend. A day of judgment is coming. Be reconciled to God today! Turn from your sins. Acknowledge Jesus as your Lord. Receive God’s forgiveness. Click here for more details.

CHARLIE H. CAMPBELL (Twitter: @charlieabready)
Charlie Campbell is the Director of the Always Be Ready Apologetics Ministry and a popular guest speaker at churches and conferences. He is the author of numerous articles, books, and DVDs, including:

•  Scrolls & Stones: Compelling Evidence the Bible Can Be Trusted
•  Evidence for the Existence of God
•  One Minute Answers to Skeptics
•  Archaeological Evidence for the Bible
•  The End Times: Ten Upcoming Events in Bible Prophecy
•  The Case for the Resurrection

•  Teaching and Preaching God's Word

His DVDs and books have been endorsed by Norman Geisler, Charles Colson, Chuck Smith, Ed Hindson, Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Jeremy Camp, and many others.

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Smileys don't fix relationships - ever!

Most people would agree that drinking in public, legalising prostitution and violence against animals would pass for unacceptable social behaviour. In the same way, using caps and excessive exclamation marks are considered unacceptable online social behaviour. The one thing that is still sitting in that fuzzy grey area is the use of “smileys”.

I cannot understand why people tend to think they can slate your thoughts, views, opinions and sometimes even your beliefs by crafting a diplomatic e-mail (or apology) and inserting a smiling face as the cherry on top, assuming it will fix everything bad that happened or that was said.

Using a smiley in the business environment is worse. When dealing with difficult conversations (or people for that matter), it has become acceptable to share your thoughts on the matter and then insert an emoticon to show the person that you are not completely unreasonable. If you mess up, do not ever insert a smiley in an apologetic letter. How can you expect someone to take you seriously? State the facts as is without trying to smother it with visual emotion. Better yet, rather make that phone call (as unpleasant as it seems), you will build personal brand cred that way.

So in short, if you think it’s ok to use smileys in business, it’s not. Giving feedback and asking for forgiveness of any kind should be done professionally. By adding a smiley you are just hiding behind the facts.

I believe that the smiley is over used and downright abused. In any context, we need to think when it’s the appropriate time to use, as we would with the words we choose. Rather leave excessive use of emoticons to teenagers who have better things to do than care about language and grammar anyway.


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Those Irrepressible Neocons

Those Irrepressible Neocons

April 26, 2011 10:54 am ET

Will wonders never cease?

Two neoconservatives are out front urging President Obama to more energetically defend the human rights of Arabs. Jennifer Rubin, who writes for the Washington Post, and her mentor, Rachel Decter Abrams, the godmother of neoconservatism, believe that Obama should step up and defend the Syrian people against the repressive Assad regime.

Abrams, in particular, has stellar neocon credentials. She is married to Elliot Abrams (the Reagan assistant secretary of state who was indicted by a special prosecutor for intentionally deceiving Congress about the Iran-Contra arms deal). She is also the step-daughter of Norman Podhoretz, longtime editor of the neocon flagship Commentary, and the sister of John Podhoretz, its current editor.

Jennifer Rubin, on the other hand, was just one of those plugging along in Kingdom Neocon (she was a contributing editor to Commentary and its blog, Contentions) until recently, when the neocon editor of the Washington Post editorial page, Fred Hiatt, plucked her from obscurity and brought her to the Post.

Beyond their Commentary roots, the two are almost ideologically identical. And that means that they are both driven, above all other considerations, by dedication to the concept of Greater Israel (a concept which is taken more seriously inside the Beltway than it is in Israel itself).

In her first column in the Post, Rubin introduced herself by noting that she is a “harsh critic” of the Middle East peace process, which, in her case, means total devotion to the vision of Binyamin Netanyahu: championing the Gaza war, and attacking anyone (particularly Jews at J Street) who dares to oppose Israeli policy. And, naturally, Rubin despises President Obama, whose “sympathies for the Muslim word,” she complains, “take precedence over those, such as they are, for his fellow citizens.”

Abrams’ views of Israel are even farther to the right. In fact, Abrams has a hard time remembering that she is an American, not an Israeli. For instance, in 2010, she penned a love letter to Israel which included these words: “I know why we cry for this land and fight for this land and love this land. I know why we cannot let go of any part of this land. This is the land of my people, and I know why.” (In the White House, her husband Elliot was known for undercutting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on all matters relating to Israel.)

The bottom line with Abrams and Rubin is that they are all about Israel. Virtually every position either one takes is related, in some way or other, either to Israel or to flattering those who share their “no compromise with Palestinians” worldview. They are right-wingers only because they trust the right on Israel; their views on American issues are “icing” designed to ingratiate themselves with people they consider to be Israel’s staunchest allies. (Jennifer Rubin, for instance, defended Sarah Palin against her Jewish critics, accusing them of not admiring Palin because they are intellectual snobs and are uncomfortable with Track Palin’s service in the U.S. military!)

The one difference between the two is Abrams’ bizarre obsession with gays and lesbians. She despises them and is quick to suggest that any critic of Israel must be gay, which, in her lexicon, is the greatest insult. On this, as on nothing else, Abrams abandons her defense of Israel, which is well-known for being progressive on gay equality issues. (When it comes to gays, she is definitely more Saudi than Israeli.)

All this brings me to Rubin’s piece in which she bashes President Obama for not aggressively championing the anti-Assad demonstrators in Syria. She prefaces that by noting that Obama “shamefully missed a hinge moment in history when he failed to champion the Iranian Green Movement in June 2009. It was both a moral and a geopolitical failing of enormous proportions. And he now seems to be repeating his most egregious foreign policy error.”

She then cites her mentor:

In sum, there is a growing sense that, as blogger Rachel Abrams put it, the administration’s “refusal to distinguish between oppressor and oppressed – ‘we … call on all sides to cease and desist from the use of violence’ – shames us in the world and endangers us.”

Rubin approvingly cites Bill Kristol (another neocon idol) who says that the administration is overly cautious about fighting in Libya. “If you talk off the record with people from the administration, they are terrified of having some American pilot shot down and taken hostage,” he grumbles.

The neocons, who played such a large role in getting this country to invade Iraq (cost in American lives: 4,400) certainly aren’t “terrified” over such things.

The most absurd thing about Rubin’s and Abrams’ sudden concern for Syrians, Iranians, Libyans (or any other Muslim peoples’ rights) is that it is transparently dishonest. Both Abrams and Rubin cheered Israel’s onslaught on Gaza and Lebanon, in which thousands of civilians died. Both favor attacking Iran, an act that might well kill thousands of innocent Iranians and provoke a deadly regional war. Neither has ever expressed any concern over any Israeli action that took Arab lives. For those two, either it never happened or was an unfortunate accident.

In other words, when it comes to Muslims, Rubin and Abrams care about their democratic rights (except those of Palestinians), but not necessarily their right to live.

One of the many differences between the neocons and Obama is that he wants these revolutions to succeed, and he understands that the quickest way to undermine the Arab Spring is to make it appear to be engineered by the United States. That is also why Obama was so cautious about Iran; the revolutionaries did not want to be seen as U.S. pawns. Neocons just like sticking it to Obama, liberals, and anyone who does not share their belief that the Israeli occupation is just fine.

So let’s not hear from this crowd about the poor Iranians or Syrians or Libyans, or whatever other group they suddenly profess to care about. Better they should think about those thousands of Americans, along with the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, who perished as a consequence of the horrific war they enthusiastically agitated for. Don’t they have enough to atone for without adding more deadly U.S. military interventions?

Maybe they should pay a visit to Walter Reed.

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4 Responses to “Those Irrepressible Neocons”

  • Jay Traver says:

    excellent post, i am convinced, all of the turmoil in the middle east at the moment benefits israel, with greater israel being the endgame, and it will lead US into WW3

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