The last Word?

Mr Steuart Campbell’s letter (Friday 27 October) was full of arrant nonsense. “We cannot know for certain what happened in the past,” he says. Like the events of the Second World War, for instance, or the drama of the Chilean mining rescue? Really? But this statement is just an excuse to hone in on that hoary old target, Jesus’s life and resurrection.

Perhaps Mr Campbell would like to explain, if, as he says, the disciples weren’t sure that the figure they encountered was their master, how it was that 11 frightenedmen,hidingbehind locked doors for fear of the authorities, suddenly took off and turned the Roman world upside down, fearing nothing and nobody, to the extent that eventually Christianity became the official religion of the whole Roman Empire.

Asfortheemptytomb,countless atheists have approached the Gospel accounts, determined to prove them flawed or false, only to be convinced otherwise.

MD TAYLOR Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk