ABC Religion & Ethics has a feast of thought-provoking articles in time for Easter 2014. These articles are great ones for believers and sceptics alike. Read them. Share them.
See below for the snippets:
Eliminating the Impossible: Can a Scientist believe the Resurrection? by John Lennox
TO SUPPOSE THAT CHRISTIANITY WAS BORN IN A PRE-SCIENTIFIC, CREDULOUS WORLD IS SIMPLY FALSE. CHRISTIANITY WON ITS WAY BY DINT OF THE SHEER WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE THAT ONE MAN HAD RISEN FROM THE DEAD.
Which Story? Which King? God’s Theatre on the Streets of Jerusalem by N.T. Wright
STREET THEATRE IS THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE JESUS’S ACTIONS ON THE FIRST PALM SUNDAY. THE CRUCIAL QUESTION IS WHAT IT ALL MEANT: WHICH STORY WAS HE ENACTING? WHAT SORT OF KING WAS HE BECOMING.
Can we hope for life beyond death? by Stanley Hauerwas
HOPE IN LIFE BEYOND DEATH IS MADE POSSIBLE, NOT BY SENTIMENTAL BELIEF IN LIFE AFTER DEATH, BUT BY PARTICIPATION IN CHRIST’S LIFE. LIFE MUST BE VIEWED AS A GIFT, NOT A “RIGHT” TO WHICH WE ARE ENTITLED.
How God became Jesus: Bart Ehrman gets it wrong, again by Michael Bird
WITHIN TWENTY YEARS OF HIS DEATH, JESUS’S FOLLOWERS REGARDED HIM AS A PRE-EXISTENT BEING WHO BECAME HUMAN, ACHIEVED REDEMPTION BY HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION, AND WAS EXALTED TO THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.
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