Easter. The most important holiday on the Christian Calendar. Important because it is the heart of Christian Doctrine. Christians believe Jesus was God incarnate. He took on our sins, imperfections, and skewed mental processes and wiped them out with his sacrifice. God created man to live with him forever.
But then came our downfall. Whether Adam and Eve are allegory or history, they represented our rejection of eternal life on earth in communion with God. That was the original plan. They represent our choice to choose self over our creator. To think our ways are more clever, moral, or more up to date. The natural consequence of that is eternal separation from God. So, God made a way to avoid that fate. He gave his only begotten son to die in our place and offer us eternal life and that we may be resurrected also.
“If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 1 Corinthians 15:32
God’s love is shown in the sacrifice on the cross. Even though we chose to worship self, he persisted in saving us. This disease of worshipping self continues as always. Our pride says there is no God, or we don’t need God. “We have exchanged the truth of God for a lie and now worship the created and not the creator.” Romans 1:25
His resurrection offers hope for every man and woman on earth. Reach out your hand and accept that sacrifice. Being separated from God for eternity may not worry many of you. The alternative? Believing or claiming that all of the universe and consciousness came from non-life. Atheists still don’t have an idea how the first life appeared. In Richard Dawkins book “The God Delusion,” he credits “A happy chemical accident” when guessing about the first living cell.
I will cover that more on a future substack about atheism.
Have a wonderful Easter Sunday!
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