"If you believe that Jesus rose from the dead when in fact Jesus did not rise from the dead, your faith is worthless because faith's validation depends in part on the truthfulness of faith's object.
That is why the Bible never encourages you to believe something that is not true or that is not prepared to declare to be true. That is why in the Bible faith is strengthened by articulating and defending the truth. The Bible never says, 'Just believe, believe, believe, believe, believe-it doesn't matter if it's true, just believe. So long as you are sincere in your belief, that's good.' So as long as you are convinced that Christ did not rise from the dead, I am the last person who is going to urge you to sort of tighten your stomach muscles and pretend to believe it. That is not faith. It might be the onset of a stomach ulcer, but it is not faith."
D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There
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