Within the earliest years of Christianity, two significant practices emerged – Christians gathered together on the first day of the week, and they broke bread in remembrance of a man who had been publicly executed. What prompted the early Christian movement to so promptly reorganize their sacred calendar and worship around Jesus’ death and supposed resurrection?
The text contains multiple concrete features that find striking correspondence in the events surrounding the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Moreover, Jesus does not make a vague, general, prophecy about an event to happen in the undated future, but he puts a specific time limit on it – it was to happen before his generation passed away.
An argument for Christianity that seldom receives adequate attention is the Christological Trilemma, most popularly associated with C.S. Lewis, though also developed by other authors preceding him such as G.K. Chesterton. In this essay, I shall give a survey of the Christological Trilemma, while supplying additional nuances to the argument as traditionally formulated.
