Wednesday 20 January 2010
easter ads... 3
Easter suggests there is a power at work in the universe that can transform situations of death and decay, on all kinds of levels. The risen Jesus wasn’t merely a resuscitated corpse, he had a new kind of body, a transformed one, and we believe now inhabits a different plane of reality. Like the heavenly beings in cs lewis’ ‘the great divorce’, more solid and real, not less, than the earthly bodies… I want to identify core human aspirations, desires, interests to which Easter offers a response – or just one – and then perhaps shape an idea around that.
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Again, the aim is vague. Who is it addressed to? It sounds like believers to me.
Easter offers me nothing by the way. Saying it offers something is meaningless. My life would be no different without easter.
Easter (as in Christ, cross, crucifixion 'Easter') offers a fresh start, the chance to put it all down and walk tall, forgiveness no matter what you have done/been/said. The pertinent point being 'no matter what'. How many of us haven't at some time in our lives wanted that. On my 40th year I still have yet to meet a human being who can truly offer that.
Cat, if your comment is directed at me, read on. If not, then ignore it.
People offer forgiveness (or not). Jesus doesn't come into it. If I need forgiven, then its a person I need to forgive me (specifically the one I've hurt). I have observed christians hurt others and feel they don't need to sort it oub because they think Jesus has forgiven them.
Contrast that with the words of Penn jillette: "Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around."
I find this personal dealing with people more important than avoiding confronting what you have done.
So, again, easter offers me nothing.
ah well billy, it's just as well you don't live in manchester and listen to commercial radio there, as you could be about to find your scepticism shaken to the foundations!
Why does god always turn up somewhere I'm not? :-)
Actually, talking of manchester - I went down there once to see that fine - and in no way dodgy at all prophet Benny Hin on a saturday. Would you believe it, but at the end, honest Benny said it was actually Sunday night that the holy spirit promised to be there - maybe he got delayed in Miami. Missed him by a day - can you Adam and Eve it?
Billy, I'm with you on using the words' dodgy' & 'Benny Hinn' in the same sentence. God bless him in his misguidedness. Having said that i have often found that the Holy Spirit often turns up 'late', or for that matter 'early'......by my timing ;)
re: old Maggie T. questions....Did u have a matriach fixation from childhood? She was quite a handsome women. I'd be interested to hear your definition of 'beauty' by the way.
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