The resurrection of Jesus is infused with so much meaning it is beyond measure and will never be exhausted, this is why it is so critical and so central to man; it is the existential “depth” his soul longs for… and the only thing that will ever satisfy it.

Ever since Charles Darwin, in 1859, published On the Origin of Species, which identified natural selection as the mechanism that explained the theory of Evolution, there has been great attention given to the paleoanthropological record and study of Man.

Given this intense interest in Man’s development, how is it there is not an equally intense interest in a man who rose from the dead and completely transcended all the applicable developmental theories and categories?

Jesus not only rose from the dead, he stated definitively that he would rise from the dead: “He is risen… just as he said.” Matthew 28:6. Jesus was a teacher, and had he not risen from the dead, everything he taught, his life’s work and mission, would have been thoroughly discredited.

The resurrection does not neutralize the theory of evolution, but it does expand the concept of natural selection in that it shows how God himself has “selected” man to rise from the dead and live with him forever!