The Unapologetic Apologia

Contrary to what most believe about Christians, it is not merely faith being the reason we believe. Though it may be blind faith to some in today’s time. I have no reason not to believe -that I wont go into here- that there are indeed large amounts of Christians who now have no reasons other than emotion that guide there belief. So it’s easy to see why most who do not believe come to the conclusion that those who choose to believe, are only going by a blind faith. But this was not so in the early stages of Christianity. After all it was a severely persecuted group and their reach was limited because of it. Yet the message spread dispite the odds against it. What was the message? And when you talk to learned Christians and scholars and theologians in todays time it becomes clear that with time the arguments only get harder to deny.
I will go further into how the making up of such a story would not account for the accounts of a resurrected Jesus and subsequently the spread of Christianity.
The story of God, incarnate, sacrificing himself for us sounds poetic to us now.  But to the ancient world that was deeply rooted in a culture of honor and shame, would be not only extremely embarrassing and disgusting but also terrifying.
The Roman orator and statesman Cicero gives the general sentiment towards Crucifixion saying: “The very word ‘cross’ (crux) should be far removed not only from the person of a Roman citizen but from his thoughts, his eyes, and his ears. For it is not only the actual occurrence of these things [being crucified] but the very possibility, the very mention of them, that is unworthy of a Roman citizen and a free man.”
Walter Bauer said in his book Crucifixion, “The enemies of Christianity always referred to the disgracefulness of the death of Jesus with great emphasis and malicious pleasure. A god or son of god dving on a cross! That was enough to put paid to the new religion.”‘
So how did a religion -whose messiah savior was so brutally and disgustingly executed in such an embarrassing way- grow to be the largest religion? What drove this religion -that should have been dead from the moment Jesus son of a carpenter was murdered- to spread as it did? But most importantly, how do you account for the evidence I have shown, which is rudimentary compared to learned historians, theologians and apologists?

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