The Case for Christ: Student Response #1

In the first term of this school year my grade 7/8 class has read The Case for Christ: Student Edition by Lee Strobel. At the end of the study of the book each student was asked to answer one of the questions posed in the chapters of the book. I told that I would be sharing their responses online. So, throughout the rest of the year I will be posting their work. Please note, I have not edited these responses, they are exactly what the student handed me.

#1

Was Jesus really the Christ? Did he fulfill these predictions that were written centuries before he was born? In the Old Testament, there are tons of major prophecies about the coming of Christ.

These predictions allow the Israelites rule out any imposters and check the credentials of the real Messiah.

In Isaiah 53:3-9,12 There’s a picture and description of the Messiah who would suffer and die for the sins of the whole world. This portrait was of Jesus of Nazareth. This passage was a description of Jesus being born of a virgin in Bethlehem to getting crucified and resurrected. All of which was written 700 years before Jesus was born.

Not only did all these old testament prophecies come true but from the time Jesus was born to the time he died he performed countless predicted miracles that were witnessed by thousands. These miracles included things like turning water to wine, walking on water, feeding thousands of people with a couple loafs of bread and a few fish, healing the unhealable, and raising from the dead after he was crucified. All the while doing this he never committed a sin or did anything wrong, not even the worst adversary Satan was able to convince Jesus to commit a sin.

Although there have been other people in history that have done selfless acts and were even martyrs, none of them were able to do the miracles Jesus did nor have their whole lives predicted hundreds of years before they were born. For these reasons Jesus does match the identity of the Messiah.

Strobel, Lee, and Jane Vogel. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001. Print.