If one attempts to bring the meaning and nature of God to mind, it is unachievable within the limits of the human mind. A simple acknowledgement of his being is a different matter requiring only a measure of humility accompanied by the realisation of a new value to one’s life.
The more one studies the extraordinary life of Jesus, the more difficult it is to understand why so many of us go to such lengths to deny the documented eye witnessed happenings which occurred and constantly seek reasons to tear facts apart. This Jesus is the one who made the outrageous claim, “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
If one has a close friend who tells you personally for example,all the things narrated in the gospels and that he is going to return to life after his death, it is understandable that in order not to offend him you might although with disbelief, let him ramble on and then if his death occurs you would be forgiven for saying, well! that is that.
That is precisely what the apostle Thomas thought and said, until Jesus appeared in their midst showing his wounds. Thomas was left with no option faced with this impossible actuality, but to acknowledge he was in the presence of as he put it, “My Lord & My God.” The reality of the man executed a few days earlier standing there physically before him, all he had heard came rushing back into his head as truth not fable.
The Gospel of John offers a vivid description of that morning and the confusion surrounding the empty tomb which was calmed only later in the day by the words Jesus used, not for the first time. Peace be with you, he said.
Awake from your Slumber
31 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted in My Friends the Atheists
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