To the editor:

What was the greatest event in the past 2000 years? I don’t know how skeptics would answer that, but it was the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

A Jewish carpenter and preacher from Nazareth named Yeshua, or Jesus, is the most remarkable individual in all of human history. Skeptics will ridicule that statement but it is a fact that even some non-Christians and atheists have come to accept.

Jesus knew that what he said and did would be remembered. His disciples numbered only twelve but today, Christianity is the largest religion in the world, with more than two billion members.

Most of those church members are just nominal “Christians” but wherever they are, so is the Bible to convey messages from Jesus, the Apostles and the Hebrew prophets.

Truly devout Christians are much smaller in number but they do good works and promote the truth for which they are often persecuted, as Jesus predicted.

Christianity is fragmented into many groups and has been since the beginning. Read the second and third chapters of Revelations. Despite doctrinal differences, all of the various Christian groups believe in salvation through the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus died for all sinners; “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him (John 3:16-17).”