Posted on 04/18/2022 12:42:23 PM PDT by MurphsLaw
MONDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER
MATTHEW 28:8-15
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus encounters the women on the road to tell the disciples of his Resurrection,
early evidence for the reality of his rising.
Far too many contemporary scholars attempt to explain away the Resurrection,
turning it into a myth, a legend, a symbol, a sign that the cause of Jesus goes on.
But this kind of speculation is born in faculty lounges,
for few in the first century would have found that kind of talk the least bit convincing.
Can you imagine Paul tearing into Corinth or Athens with the message that there was an inspiring dead man who symbolized the presence of God?
No one would have taken him seriously. Instead, what Paul declared in all of those cities was anastasis (resurrection).
What sent him and his colleagues all over the Mediterranean world (and their energy can be sensed on every page of the New Testament) was
the shocking novelty of the Resurrection of a dead man through the power of the Holy Spirit.
A dead man who stayed in his grave would be, necessarily, a false Messiah, and his teaching, however inspiring,
could never hold off the power of death.
While they were going, some of the guard went into the city
and told the chief priests all that had happened.
The chief priests assembled with the elders and took counsel;
then they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,
telling them, “You are to say,
‘His disciples came by night and stole him while we were asleep.’
And if this gets to the ears of the governor,
we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”
The soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed.
And this story has circulated among the Jews to the present
day.+++
And once again Boobie Barron again utters a new heresy: that Jesus Christ did rise under His own power and volition.
Please read Barron's daily trash before posting each and every one of them, Murph. Some are OK, but others like this one are outright heresy.
did rise = did not rise
Slight quibble.
What becomes of John 10:17-18
“For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.” (John 10:17-18).
Where’s the quibble?
Did Christ not rise from the dead under His own power and not from that of the Holy Ghost or God the Father?
Barron must think Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, is not omnipotent; but the Holy Ghost is.
What’s next for Barron? Did Jesus Christ ascend into Heaven under His own power and volition; or was He assumed into Heaven by the power of the Holy Ghost?
Barron seems to not believe Jesus Christ was God.
From the Sunday Preface of the Traditional Catholic Mass:
“It is truly meet and just, right and availing unto salvation that we should at all time and in all places give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty and everlasting God. Who with Thine only-begotten Son and the Holy Ghost art one God, one Lord; not in the oneness of a single person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For that which we believe from Thy revelation concerning Thy glory, that same we believe also of Thy Son, and of the Holy Ghost, without difference or separation. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, we shall adore distinction in persons, oneness in being, and equality in majesty. Which the angels and archangels, the cherubim also and the seraphim do praise nor cease to cry out as with one voice saying:”...
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