“Take away miracles and you take away the Resurrection, and then you’ve got nothing to proclaim. Paul said that if Jesus wasn’t raised from the dead, our faith is futile, it’s useless, it’s empty.” Boyd stopped for a moment. His voice dropped a notch, from preaching mode to an intense expression of personal conviction. “I don’t want to base my life on a symbol,” he said resolutely. “I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What’s not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They’re the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a
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