Truth

The following is the opening paragraph to my final essay in my advanced comp class. As you probally know you either win or lose your audience in the first paragraph and I really want to nail this. My paper is on the resurrection of Christ. Just by reading the opening would you want to continue reading the paper or would you change it? Please give feedback!!!

Many people in today's world claim to be Christian. In fact, thirty-three percent of the world's population choose to believe in Christ. What does that mean? Well it means roughly thirty-three percent of the world's population believes that Jesus Christ was the Son of God and came from heaven to die on the cross for the sins of humanity. Today I would like to make a much larger claim than that. To believe in something is to consider or to accept something, that could be true but you honestly do not know. You believe the Steelers won the game last Sunday, you believe that the person next to you is Mark and you believe that you have to work tomorrow. I do not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God and came from heaven to die on the cross for the sins of humanity, I know he did. By proving eight facts I will disprove popular theories of what happened to Jesus thus leaving one possible solution, his resurrection.