Is Christianity historically credible?

“Now that I am a Christian, I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable; but when I was an atheist, I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.” C.S. Lewis

Historical records alone cannot reconcile Christ’s eventual success, events which must be considered when assessing doubt about a time so long ago. Billions of believers across thousands of years in a far-fetched tale riddled with plot holes, clumsy metaphors, unconvincing magic, and sketchy witnesses do not significantly alter the chance that a weird rabbi from antiquity overcame the rules of buoyancy, yet say with one voice that neither can Christianity be rationally discarded. Every aspect of faith must be weighed before a confident decision can be made.

Did Jesus walk on water? According to the imperfect, incomplete evidence highlighted above, and allowing for the frailty of human language to shudder under the weight of infinite unknowns, a preliminary estimate of certainty is probably not. It’s an unfinished but honest assessment at our journey’s thematic midpoint, because clutching yes disregards tattered artifacts and asserting no ignores rekindled philosophy around a body of Christ that thrived after His death. A certainty is that Jesus Christ of long ago still reliably invades the binary data stream that we, temporally locked in our mysterious minds behind unreliable rivers of electricity, call reality. Risen or dead, dry or wet sandals, He offers us a beautiful if eccentric choice among many, each awaiting our belief.