If you’re fabricating a credible story in the first century, you bring in credible witnesses...Joseph and Nicodemus, or John and Peter. Not Mary, Mary and Salome. Not three women. No 1st century Jewish author would do that. But if you know God, you know that this is precisely the kind of thing he would do. He entered the world in the womb of an unmarried virgin teenager. He was born with animals and laid in a feeding trough. He announced his birth to despised Shepherds. He grew up in Nazareth and - as Nathaniel tells us - nothing good comes from Nazareth. And Nazareth is in Galilee meaning he likely spoke with a Galilean accent (not, shockingly, an English one)...he talks like a hick. Why? Why does God act this way? Paul gives us the answer: “God chose what is...despised in the world...things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, [29]so that no human being might boast.”(1 Corinthians 1:28-29). So that no human being can boast. The resurrection is The showcase of this principle? What can you do in the face of death? What power do corpses have? Who can raise himself up? Human strength, pride, wealth, desire, will -- everything ends. You can’t stop that. But God, through a Dead Man, brings death to nothing. And then, to top everything off, and make everyone even more upset and confounded, he announces it through women.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:02:08 +0000
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