What God Did For Jesus He Is Now Doing For The Entire World
Acts 1:3 (NLT)
"During the forty days after his crucifixion, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God." Acts 1:3 (NLT)
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The foundation of Christianity is the bodily, physical, material resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Jesus was dead, came alive, and then he "hung out" with hundreds of people in his new physical (he was not a ghost) resurrected body.
Believing this is hard. Science tells us that dead people stay dead. Yet Christianity claims that Jesus was actually dead and then came to life. In fact Christianity goes so far as to claim that if Jesus was not raised from the dead, then Christians are completely wasting their time believing the rest of it. why is this so? Can't we learn how to live well and know God without a dying and resurrected God?
This is why. The entirety of the biblical story, from beginning to end, can be summed up as follows,
"What God did for Jesus (raising him from death to new life with a brand new body) is what God is now doing for every element of this broken cosmos, including you and me. God is healing and will have healed the world. God will one day have put Humpty Dumpty back together again. We do not die and then go somewhere off in space to some heaven far away. Rather, as God came to earth, lived here and healed Jesus here, so the Kingdom of the heavens, of God, will one day come to earth, restore it, renew it, resurrect it and all that is in it. What God did in Jesus, He is doing for the world."
Nothing short of this is the good news of the Gospel. Of course, it's good news for you and me too, unless of course we choose to reject for ourselves what God is up to in the world.
Are you allowing God to work his restoring, resurrecting power in you?
Acts 1:3 (NLT)
"During the forty days after his crucifixion, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God." Acts 1:3 (NLT)
Pastor's Blog
The foundation of Christianity is the bodily, physical, material resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Jesus was dead, came alive, and then he "hung out" with hundreds of people in his new physical (he was not a ghost) resurrected body.
Believing this is hard. Science tells us that dead people stay dead. Yet Christianity claims that Jesus was actually dead and then came to life. In fact Christianity goes so far as to claim that if Jesus was not raised from the dead, then Christians are completely wasting their time believing the rest of it. why is this so? Can't we learn how to live well and know God without a dying and resurrected God?
This is why. The entirety of the biblical story, from beginning to end, can be summed up as follows,
"What God did for Jesus (raising him from death to new life with a brand new body) is what God is now doing for every element of this broken cosmos, including you and me. God is healing and will have healed the world. God will one day have put Humpty Dumpty back together again. We do not die and then go somewhere off in space to some heaven far away. Rather, as God came to earth, lived here and healed Jesus here, so the Kingdom of the heavens, of God, will one day come to earth, restore it, renew it, resurrect it and all that is in it. What God did in Jesus, He is doing for the world."
Nothing short of this is the good news of the Gospel. Of course, it's good news for you and me too, unless of course we choose to reject for ourselves what God is up to in the world.
Are you allowing God to work his restoring, resurrecting power in you?
Oh Contrare!
ReplyDeleteBelieving the resurrection is easy because there is so much good evidence for it. What is that? 1) The Romans could not find the body. 2) The day of worship changed from Saturday to Sunday 3) Christians venerate Jesus's slaughter, a horrible thing to do unless that is not part of the story, 4) The Romans admitted He was gone and tried to escape, 5) 100s saw Him alive and could have commented on the gospel narratives while they were still alive, 6) no alternative theory fits the facts. 7) and many more
I also think your comment about science is misstated. Methodological naturalism says that the resurrection cannot happen becuase resurrections cannot happen. But true science that follows the evidence whereever it leads would be in concert with the resurrection.