Is Christianity real history? If not, even the apostle Paul says we should give it up — for we are to be pitied more than anyone. But if Christianity is real history, it’s history that can change our eternity. Let’s begin our Apologetics series answering this question together. // 1. Have you been to Washington, DC before? Which monuments have you been to? How were they designed and what do they represent? Why is Washington, DC full of history and how does that change us? // 2. In our lesson, we opened a “time capsule” and read from four historians who lived right around the time of Jesus. Who were they? What did they say about Jesus and Christians? How does that line up with what we know from the Bible? How does this help us know that what the Bible says is true? // 3. How did most world religions begin? How is this different from Christianity? Read 1 Corinthians 15:3-7. Did all of these things happen privately or publicly? How does history help us know that what we believe is true? // 4. Read 2 Peter 1:16-18 and 1 John 1:1-4. Were Peter and John claiming to have private ideas about God, or a public experience with Jesus? What was their faith based on? What do we now have because we know Jesus really did live, die, and rise again for us?
