It's Easter Sunday as I write this and, unsurprisingly, I have just read a news article about the Resurrection. The one thing that sets Jesus as a Messiah apart from the others and upon which the entirety of Christianity rests. And it led me to ask the question - why do we struggle to believe in miracles? The article I read was the breakdown of research carried out into whether the Resurrection was likely to have actually happened or not. It examined non-religious texts from around the period (for example, Tacitus), it examined the reports from those whom Jesus appeared to, and it examined the reports of the conversions of the sceptics after the seeing the resurrected Jesus. On the balance of probabilities, the research concluded that it was more likely that a miraculous Resurrection occurred rather than any other explanation for it (which have included hallucination and that Jesus had merely fainted on the cross, not died). For centuries there have been the sceptical, those who have denied the Bible's assertions that Jesus existed, had his ministry, died on the cross, and was Resurrected to repeat his message one last time. For centuries, historians and others have trawled through the evidence to agree or deny that any such person existed and had the impact that they had on the world. Archaeologists have sought to confirm or deny Jesus' existence through digs in the area where he lived and preached, seeking to find that ultimate piece of evidence. The Holy Sepulchre was built on the place where Jesus's tomb was - but this is always prefaced by the term 'supposedly' or some such word. Because it hasn't been empirically proven. And, for me, it begs the question - why are we relying solely on our five senses to answer this question? Why do we only believe what our five senses tell us, and why do we believe that the data we receive from them is objective? Now, I am not a signed-up Christian. I am not a follower of organised religion at all. I am not saying I don't believe in Jesus, I do as it happens, but not the Jesus who is portrayed in the Bible. I don't believe the Bible to be a factual account of things that happened but more a collection of allegories. I am not making a case here for the Christian religion at all. I am, though, making a case for there being more to this life than just what our five senses tell us. Because, as I often ask, where is love found in our five senses? Do we feel love for others through our five senses? No, we don't. We do not feel any emotion first and foremost through our five senses, yet no one seeks to argue that our emotions do not exist. We do not experience memories and thoughts through our five senses, yet no one seeks to argue that our memories and thoughts do not exist. And we do not experience ideas through our five senses, yet no one seeks to argue that ideas do not exist. I remember Wayne Dyer saying once that a surgeon had told him that they did not believe in the existence of a soul because in all their years as a surgeon, they had never physically seen it in the body. To which Wayne Dyer responded - when you were inside the body of someone, did you see a thought or an idea? And in not doing so, does that mean they do not exist?