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The Risen Christ appeared<br />
radically different to the<br />
Apostles.<br />
Apostasy: The abandonment<br />
or renunciation of one’s<br />
religious faith.<br />
The Ascension, by Benjamin West,<br />
found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified<br />
of God that he raised Christ ... If Christ has<br />
not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still<br />
in your sins.... If for this life only we have hoped in<br />
Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.<br />
For one who believed in God, lying about the Resurrection represented<br />
the worst possible crime in the eyes of St. Paul. The witnesses<br />
of the Risen Christ, if they were believers, had everything to lose<br />
and nothing to gain by publicly lying about the Resurrection (causing<br />
apostasy), for they were jeopardizing their eternal salvation.<br />
Those who did not believe in God would also have had to make great<br />
sacrifices to preach the Resurrection, which would have made lying<br />
© Sophia Institute for Teachers<br />
Unit 3, Chapter 7: Evidence for Jesus’ Divinity<br />
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