I was just reading about death--about what happens to the body after death. How the corpse stiffens...how it turns different colors...how bacteria in the intestines literally begin to eat the body.
Many people are incredulous that Jesus could rise from the dead. I wonder if it because they don't see death, or life, in a theological perspective.
Death is obviously the termination of life. But life is God's creation. More so, human life is an offshoot of divine life. I don't mean that humans are divine, but that life, livingness, resides with God; that before there was human life there was divine life; and that our human life comes from God. He creates living beings...who have a quality that he has: namely, life. He multiplies that quality.
I think that the Jews could believe in resurrection because they believed that this life was produced by God, as part of his good earth. He had produced life. Life was his project. "...Be fruitful and multiply..." Death was the termination of his creation. So resurrection was his undoing of the termination. My point, I suppose, is that if you can look at all of life and say that it came from God, that it could only come from God, is it really then difficult to then say that he reversed death, that he created anew? Its as easy as believing that God defeated an enemy...the last enemy.
Many people are incredulous that Jesus could rise from the dead. I wonder if it because they don't see death, or life, in a theological perspective.
Death is obviously the termination of life. But life is God's creation. More so, human life is an offshoot of divine life. I don't mean that humans are divine, but that life, livingness, resides with God; that before there was human life there was divine life; and that our human life comes from God. He creates living beings...who have a quality that he has: namely, life. He multiplies that quality.
I think that the Jews could believe in resurrection because they believed that this life was produced by God, as part of his good earth. He had produced life. Life was his project. "...Be fruitful and multiply..." Death was the termination of his creation. So resurrection was his undoing of the termination. My point, I suppose, is that if you can look at all of life and say that it came from God, that it could only come from God, is it really then difficult to then say that he reversed death, that he created anew? Its as easy as believing that God defeated an enemy...the last enemy.
