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Posted on 03/28/2018 5:03:28 AM PDT by Gamecock
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Don’t know church this person goes to.....the complaint is not my ecperience
Uh, why do we have Easter,? It’s not about bunnies.
This is food for thought. Thank you for posting.
To answer directly why the resurrection is not spoken of modernly as much as the atoning death, it might be because for 364 days of the year Western men are supposedly rational, reasoning, semi-scientifically thinking men. On Easter, they are asked to put that aside and to believe in the resurrection. It might seem weird and is definitely neither rational or scientific.
Jesus’ agony on the cross and the politics immediately before that are understandable in comparison.
Excellent. Thank you GC. I have been pondering this for a while. I help teach a bible study to group of adults with intellectual abilities. They all can pretty say with joy that Jesus died for their sins. But they don’t get the resurrection and the great joy in that.
Since they are very literal, Last week, I compared it to a football game of their favorite team playing a hard game but ending in a tie. Nobody wins. The enemy doesn’t win, but we don’t either. But the resurrection makes the score a gazillion to 0. Death has been defeated!!
I have been working on Phil 3:10 to help them understand the power of the resurrection and how that changes their life as much as the crucifixion.
There has been a big emphasis on His resurrection in every church I’ve attended - both when I lived in Seattle and now here in Kentucky. AG, Baptist, foursquare, Church of God, Christian and non-denominational.
Maybe the author is attending the wrong churches.
An issue about resurrection might more to to with what does it mean to believe Jesus appeared in the flesh after he died to several witnesses? Mark’s gospel originally did not account for any physical sightings of Jesus after his resurrection unlike Mathew, Luke and John. Its pretty much accepted a paragraph was added to the gospel of Mark later telling the story of sightings so as to fit the narrative of the other three gospels. Therefore, the importance or non importance of the sightings of Jesus alive in the flesh ( as opposed to or in addition to being alive in spirit) has been a controversy within the church since the beginning,
i’m a believer however, Jesus demonstrated life after death and as a charismatic believer i know this because he communicates to the church through his holy spirit today. The strange ending of Mark , and or the conflicts with the other gospels or within denominations does not change my faith, but i have to concede the resurrection is mystery , yet the fact Jesus can be felt in the spirit today is just a more important part of my worship than the interpreted accounts and rituals of the past.
The whole point of Christianity is to have a personal relationship with God every day knowing through his word of love and forgiveness we will live with him forever in spirit. The rituals of holidays once a year are not as important for me as is my everyday personal experience of Jesus’s resurrection. .
We don't know how to talk about things that blow our minds. So we're comfortable discussing death by torture and attaching meaning to it. But resurrection in a recognizable but new sort of body, that just leaves us agog. The thing itself just doesn't “fit”.
The average liberal theologian tries to appropriate the meaning without the fact ... and leaves himself open to Paul's dictum that in that case our hope is in vain.
When I achieve my plan to become both pope and emperor of the world (any day now — watch this space), the funeral of anyone who dies of natural causes over the age of 65 will have a mandatory reading from 1 Cor 15.
Both are critical to the whole event. Without the crucifixion and death, we have no “perfect lamb” to absorb our sins so that we may be reconciled to Yahweh God in the Hebrew tradition. It cannot be overstated the importance of that event.
Likewise, without the resurrection, there is no victory over sin and death. It cannot be overstated the importance of this event either.
The churches I frequent seem to grasp that both events are intertwined and essential to the Christian experience - and proclaim both with celebration. Maybe this fellow needs to find better churches.
A devout Catholic will have a crucifix on the wall, in their vehicle, hanging around their neck, on a Rosary ... At Mass Catholics are focused upon the crucifixion, even encouraged to consume Him. ... Next question?
Next question?
I have to confess that at any church I’ve ever attended the death and resurrection are discussed in unison. The death can not be mentioned without mentioning the Resurrection. It’s the whole point of the death.
Christ’s appearance in the flesh was of utmost importance. It took the apostles from scared rabbits hiding behind locked doors to bold evangelists that feared nothing. The bodily resurrection is key to our faith. Christ is risen fully and in the flesh. So will we also rise. To say Christ rose only spiritually is to rob the Resurrection of its power.
Alas, the central theme of Catholicism is the crucifixion. What does the priest say as he places the wafer in the adherent’s mouth, and as he passes the cup (I was an Episcopalian, we shared the cup of actual wine).
If interested, see my profile page for the central question.
Amen!
“Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?”
An interesting article. Thanks.
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