Frank Morison was a gifted English lawyer who set out to write a book he planned on calling Disproving the Resurrection of Jesus. He was convinced that he would be able to do what his title proclaimed. However, when he had completed all of his research, he wrote a completely different book than he had first intended. He now gave it the title: Who Moved The Stone? which has become a classic, demonstrating that the rules of evidence do not disprove, but rather confirm the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. In it, Morison wrote these opening words:
’This study is, in some ways, so unusual and provocative that (I) think it desirable to state here very briefly how the book came to take its present form. (He wrote) “it is essentially a confession, the inner story of a man who originally set out to write one kind of book and found himself compelled by the sheer force of circumstance to write quite another. (He wrote) “Somehow the perspective shifted — not suddenly, as in a flash of insight or inspiration, but slowly, almost imperceptibly, by the very stubbornness of the facts themselves.’” (Richard E. Simmons III, Reflections of the Existence of God, pp. 233-234)
Morison is not the first man who went to the Bible to disprove it, who ended up being converted by it! And what he discovered is what Christians all over the world are celebrating today: “Christ is risen indeed!”
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