Holy Week Concludes
Good Friday - Come together Over Me.
Second Evangelical Free Church (2EFC) will be joining several congregations for a Good Friday service at First Evangelical Free Church (on 66th Street) in Bay Ridge. The meeting will begin at 7:30. The Guest Speaker will be Dr. Richard, whom we have hosted before. Due to the sensitive nature of some of his message, there will be no livestream of that service. Reach out if you would like a ride to the service.
Easter Sunday - Questions about the Resurrection.
We let an AI engine generate three challenging or troublesome questions about Jesus' resurrection. We will see how 1 Corinthians 15 provides a starting point for answering these questions from GPT-4:
Given the lack of empirical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, how do Christians justify their belief in this event? And how do they respond to skeptics who argue that belief in the resurrection is based on faith rather than reason or evidence?
From a historical perspective, how can we verify that the resurrection of Jesus actually happened, given that there are no eyewitness accounts outside of the Bible and the accounts in the Bible were written decades after the event allegedly occurred?
How can we reconcile the different accounts of the resurrection in the New Testament, which seem to contain discrepancies in the details and the sequence of events?
We will also answer this additional question that another AI engine, Jasper, posed: what does resurrection mean today?
Come by or tune in on Easter to see what you can take with you.