Good grief, man — the point of the Cardinal’s article isn’t the five hundred people he revealed himself to, but the thousands and thousands of people he didn’t. The point is that he chose to spend that precious time pereparing his followers for the task they would be facing. He didn’t bust lose from the tomb and immediately start strutting around the agora and Calvary Hill like some historic WWE wrestler shooting up from the mat at the height of the two count.
Sir, anyone who can link the Resurrection, Cardinal Newman and the WWE - cogently - in a single post is a GENIUS in my book!
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I read it again and your point seems correct.
People complain that God doesn’t show himself to everybody, then it would be easy to believe. The problem is during the Exodus, God showed his miracles time and time again and still people fell away. He did the same when they crossed the Jordan, caused the walls of Jericho to fall and still, they fell away.
We have faith, that is enough and to paraphrase Paul, if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead then we Christians are most miserable. 1-Cor 15:19
I do like Arron’s explanation for the golden calf. I put the gold in the furnace and the calf popped out. Ex 32:24. Sounds like a lie a ten year old would say.
When a guy who is elevated to such a high position gets his facts so wrong on such a simple topic, I don’t care what he has to say.