Liberty Branch Sacrament Meeting Talk
When my wife and I were asked to speak to you all today we were sent several topics to choose from. I’ll admit, that what I have prepared today is a reformatted talk I gave on Easter a year ago. It matches 3-4 themes we were sent to speak on. I have reformatted it to fit some more of those specific themes. To begin, it may be of interest to some of you to know that in the academic community, it is almost universally accepted that Jesus Christ lived anciently. I bring this up to bring back up later, to make the case for the Living Christ. One historian has noted, "Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed" (1). Another has said, "[Jesus] certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees" (2). And another, "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of Christians' imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectab
