What Really Happened on Easter Morning?
Here's something to mull over as we try to get our heads around the events of Good Friday and Easter morning...
The great work which Jesus began on earth of reconciling God and man in His own body, He carries on in heaven. To accomplish this, He took the conflict between God's righteousness and our sin into His own person. On the cross, He ended the struggle once and for all in His own body. Then he ascended to heaven, where He carries out the deliverance He obtained and manifests His victory in each member of His body. This is why He lives to pray. In His unceasing intercession, He places Himself in living fellowship with the unceasing prayer of His redeemed ones....The redemption of human nature into fellowship with His resurrection power and His glory was intensely real. The taking up of our humanity through Christ into the life of the triune God was an event of inconceivable significance....From Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer
Labels: Andrew Murray, Prayer, Resurrection power
posted by Catherine Reid @ 9:45 AM
2 Comments:
according to John Dominic Crossan, physical ressurection by a Christ on easter sunday is a myth. He claims that the disciples simply made Jesus' execution look good. As such ressurection is simply an apologetic project initiated by Jesus' disciples in order to prolong his followership. I don't agree with Crossan because I think what he does is conjecture, but what do you think?
I believe along with the Apostle Paul that if there was no resurrection, then we are the most miserable of men. We might as well live for today, because there is no hope for tomorrow. If you believe in the New Testament, you must accept the resurrection, because all the New Testament writers view a living Christ who will return again someday as central to their faith. John claims to have seen Jesus in his body after death—saw him eating and drinking and moving in through locked doors. Paul says his conversion was because the living Christ spoke to him. The writer to the Hebrews claims Christ is alive and daily praying at the right hand of God. If you want to look for evidence outside the New Testament, I think the most powerful evidence is that of the changed lives of the apostles. On the night of the crucifixion you have a scared band of men, most of whom are hiding. The few who are out in the open are denying that they even know Christ. Six weeks later, Peter is preaching to large crowds in Jerusalem and the Christian church has been born. What happened to transform a scared fisherman into an evangelist that fast? Why were the apostles—who witnessed Christ’s death and the apparent end of his ministry—willing to risk their own lives to talk about him? (Later many of them actually faced imprisonment and death because they would not renounce him.) I believe the logical explanation is that they witnessed something so radical they devoted their lives to telling other people about it. And what they told people about was the resurrection.
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