The first annual Bigfoot Festival in Marion, N.C. brought together the entire range of participants from Sasquatch skeptics and complete nonbelievers to Bigfoot explorers quick to share tales of sightings and howls.
McDowell County Chamber of Commerce director Steve Bush is ambivalent when it comes to Bigfoot.
“I’m going to say that until I see him — I want to believe, but until I physically see him — I’m going to say no at this point,” says Bush.
“We’re still trying to find out if he’s real or not,”one visitor said.
Is the story of a resurrected Jesus Christ as hard to believe as stories of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster or the Abominable Snowman?
Josh McDowell lists 5 reasons to believe in Christ’s resurrection, from the Scriptures.
#1: The Roman Seal was Broken: The seal represented the full power and authority of the Roman empire. Anyone seeking to steal Jesus’ body would have been very aware that in doing so they were taking on Rome. Would Jesus’ disciples have dared to do so? No way!
#2: The Stone was Rolled Away: The first thing that impressed the people who approached the empty tomb that morning was the unusual position of the massive stone that has previously covered the tomb entrance. The stone was in such a position up a slope away from the entire massive sepulcher that John had to use a different Greek verb, airo, which means “to pick something up and carry it away.”
#3: The Graveclothes Remained: Jesus was gone, but His graveclothes bore witness to His resurrection!. As Reverend Michael Green says,“No grave robbers would have been able to enact so remarkable a thing. Nor would it have entered the robber’s head. He would have simply taken the body, graveclothes and all.” Indeed!
#4: Guards Paid to Keep Silent: The Jewish leaders immediately understood they had a problem. Not only could they not produce Jesus’ missing body, but they needed to quickly hush the live witnesses! So they bribed the soldiers with a good chunk of change, and promised them protection should Pilate seek to punish them for failing to guard the tomb.
#5: Christ Seen by Many. We know that Jesus appeared to the women, and His disciples, numerous times. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul writes: ” He (Jesus) was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve. After that, He was seen by more than 500 of His followers at one time, most of whom are still alive. Says New Testament scholar C. H. Dodd, “There can hardly be any purpose in mentioning the fact that most of the five hundred are still alive, unless Paul is saying, in effect, ‘the witnesses are there to be questioned.”
The resurrection of Jesus is a provable, historical fact. The real question is, what are you going to do about it?
