Eamonn Clark on the Logic of the Resurrection

"The meaning of human existence was definitively determined and confirmed about 2,000 years ago in a little cave just outside Jerusalem when a dead man suddenly came alive again. Nobody saw the event itself - it was secret. Only its effects were perceived, just as this same ma'’s public miracles had been… in the midst of confusion, or chaos, or darkness, or in some kind of hidden or invisible circumstances. But the effects were perceived clearly. And yet frequently, their meaning was not perceived.

"To see the Risen Christ after the torture and death He endured only days earlier evoked principally two emotions - fear and joy. The fear came from the natural confusion of seeing someone alive who had died. The ambiguity which such a situation presents is overwhelming to the psyche - and even most sincere believers in the Resurrection today would no doubt still be startled by this kind of encounter. The bridging of the worlds of the living and the dead calls for such an 'unnatural' in-betweenness, a characteristic of the Christ which is hammered home numerous times in the pages of the Gospels. This should be no surprise when we believe He is both God and man, already a great mystery of 'contradiction' and 'ambiguity.' He was baptized in the 'middle' place. He touches 'unclean' things. He lives near cities but not in them. He is evasive physically and rhetorically. He is a shape-shifter. He is a gatekeeper."

In a recent commentary, writer Eamonn Clark reflected on why the Resurrection makes sense.

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Christian Renaissance Movement: The Logic of the Resurrection (11 JUN 19)