the newspapers of the day. It is not in itself an impossible thing
for a man to do.

But if the same man told the same audience that five hundred years
ago an Irish sailor had swum from Holyhead to New York, his statement
would be received with less confidence.

Because five centuries is a long time, there is no credible record
of the feat, and we _cannot believe_ any man capable of swimming
about four thousand miles.

Let us look once more at the statement made by the believers in
the Resurrection.

We are asked to believe that the all-powerful eternal God, the
God who created twenty millions of suns, came down to earth, was
born of a woman, was crucified, was dead, was laid in a tomb for
three days, and then came to life again, and ascended into Heaven.

What is the nature of the evidence produced in support of this
tremendous miracle?

Is there any man or woman alive who has seen God? No. Is there
any man or woman alive who has seen Christ? No.

There is no human being alive who can say that God exists or that
Christ exists. The most they can say is that they _believe_ that
God and Christ exist.

No historian claims that any God has been seen on earth for nearly