Max Lucado, the popular best-selling author and preacher at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, has identified the one word on which all of Christianity stands upon, and said that if it turns out to be false, then the whole faith “collapses like a joke.”
“Three words in English. Just one in Greek. Egerthe. So much rests on the validity of this one word. If it is false, then the whole of Christianity collapses like a poorly told joke. Yet, if it is true, then God’s story has turned your final chapter into a preface,” Lucado wrote on Easter Sunday on Facebook.
The English translation of “Egerthe” is the phrase “He is risen.”
“If the angel was correct, then you can believe this: Jesus descended into the coldest cell of death’s prison and allowed the warden to lock the door and smelt the keys in a furnace,” the pastor said, referring to the angel who announced to Mary Magdalene and the other women who came to Jesus’ tomb following His crucifixion that He was no longer there.
“And just when the demons began to dance and prance, Jesus pressed pierced hands against the inner walls of the cavern. From deep within He shook the cemetery,” he wrote.
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