Article August 12, 1972 Issue

Incredible?

JEANNE ROE PRICE

About the middle of the first century of the Christian era, one of the most significant court scenes in world history took place. It was in ancient Caesarea, an important Roman town on the coast of Palestine and the official residence of the Herodian kings. The Apostle Paul, in prison there for his preaching and teaching of Christianity, was summoned from prison to appear before King Agrippa to speak in defense of his life and his religion.

Calmly and courteously Paul told the king and the court of his strict religious education as a Pharisee and of his later conversion to Christianity. He told of the Saviour's victory over death and the grave. In ringing words of challenge he asked the king the momentous question: "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" ^{Acts 26:8;}

This challenge is for us too. Why should we think it incredible that God is a God of life? Why should we think it incredible that suffering and crime should be wiped out; that greed and fear, riots, poverty, pestilence, and war should be eliminated; that bestiality and carnality of every kind—sin, disease, and death—should be outgrown?

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