Articles - Jesus Christ

Christianity is a religion based on facts. This is a hard pill to swallow in our present generation. Postmodern religion is less concerned about knowledge and facts and more concerned with faith and what is believed. In spite of this current philosophy, the Bible clearly shows us that the two go hand-in-hand. Faith and belief must be founded upon facts and knowledge. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1; cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:21; John 8:32; et. al.).

From the first century up to the present day, the Sonship and divinity of Jesus have been attacked with amazingly and seemingly unending vigor and venom. One of the modern-day leaders in this attack against Christianity would certainly be Bertrand Russell, who was one of the most influential, and often outspoken, philosophers of the twentieth century. He was born in England in 1872 and continued to write and lecture in both Europe and the United States until not long before his death in 1970. His parents were freethinkers and close friends with John Stuart Mill, a pioneer in modern scientific thinking who devised rules for inductive scientific reasoning and was a leader of ethical utilitarianism (“Russell” 235).