What was the first thing Jesus did on Easter morning?

Apparently, he folded the grave cloth over his head. John 20:5-7: And stooping to look in, (the other disciple) saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 6Then Simon Peter came,...

A body in heaven?

A question that arises from my last post is: where is this resurrected body now? If its physical, where is it in relation to the physical universe? According to the New Testament, Jesus Christ ascended...

A new kind of reality

I just read through each of the gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ resurrection and was very struck by how Jesus’ resurrected life is portrayed. One the one hand, the physicality of Jesus’ body and the continuity...

Einstein

I have been reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Einstein (Simon and Schuster, 2007). I picked the book up because I wanted to learn more about Einstein’s contribution to physics and what is really at stake...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (8)

“If the resurrection be fact, why not the incarnation? It is possible to isolate virtually all the other insignia of majesty in the synoptic tradition and pick them off one by one: the virgin birth,...

Too much 24?

This morning Esther was about to head out the door to work, and I was still 2/3 asleep in bed, and the first thing that popped into my head to ask her was, “where did...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (7)

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (6)

After showing how different bodily resurrection was from other first century ideas about life after death, N.T Wright addresses the charge that belief in the resurrection is out-dated and pre-modern: “(It is) wrong to imply...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (5)

This is a startling statement, the more you think about it, but seems to me justified on the basis of Acts 2:30-31 (King), Hebrews 7:16 (Priest), various verses in John, such as 8:28, 14:26, 16:7,...