An atheist, a committed disciple of the "truth" of Communism, once gave a speech to an enormous crowd in the former Soviet Union. He mocked the Christian faith, saying it was all mere fantasy. It was not Jesus but the program of Marx and Lenin that was destined to bring history to its appointed purpose. The atheist was eloquent and withering in his scorn for Christianity. When he finished, an Orthodox priest asked if he could say just two worlds in reply (his two Russian words are translated by three words in English). The priest shouted, "Christ is risen!" and the crowd roared back the response carried with them from their childhood: "He is risen indeed!" For a world so twisted by evil and enslaved by sin, what other message could there be? Christ is risen.
Bartholomew, Craig G. and Michael W. Goheen. The Drama of Scripture: Finding our Place in the Biblical Story.
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