Christianity rests entirely on certain objective persons and events. It they didn’t happen, then it’s not true.

A man named Jesus, born of a virgin, suffering under a Roman governor named Pontius Pilate, crucified, died, buried, rising again on the third day, all seen by hundreds of eye-witnesses: did that happen? That question matters. If it’s not true, then the opening of Ecclesiastes is the only truth: Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless.

Today’s Epistle lesson addresses that fundamental question: “Is it true?”