Paul was
speaking specifically to Agrippa, but others would have been included in his remarks
when he said, “Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the
dead” (Acts 26:8 NIV)? While raising the dead might be hard to comprehend, we
know that with God nothing is impossible. However, it occurs to me that it
might be easier for God to raise the dead than to bring life to the living who are
dead in their sins.
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Gail;
-----That’s a well put insight. The same people who call on a Savior raised from the dead find the idea of resurrection difficult. It doesn’t make sense to me. Twentieth century skepticism has destroyed a once greatly thinking people’s ability to reason carefully. Skeptics neigh and whinny and kick their feet up at their “great individualistic ways of thinking”, but while considering their intellectual work, I seem to find they all pass around between themselves only one or a couple pieces of information on an issue with the same details listed in the same order even, as one would expect of minions and lemmings. Skeptics don’t practice the same analysis they teach. They practice character assassination and chop-job. Thoughtful search for the truth goes beyond the automatonic denial of any ideas beyond the general public’s concept of normal.
-----Several months ago I fell in love with the Hebrew word “tsadaq”. I’ve held so tightly to its idea since then that I’ve probably told you this before, maybe a couple times. Yah, here it comes again! It’s the primitive root word for the concept of being right or making right in both a moral and a forensic sense. It was the “forensic sense” which attracted my attention.
-----Forensics are the processes of gathering, considering, and correctly interpreting information for knowing the truth about an idea, issue, event, thing, person, etc., such as - “resurrection”. Imagine, our unspeakably glorious Father instructs us to not only do the right things, but also to carefully think rationally. I thank God the root concept of His word for “righteousness” was not to carefully think skeptically, or worse yet, to carefully think what all the other lemmings leaders say is thought-worthy.
-----Throughout my life I’ve regarded the Word of God as the one and only pure soil for sinking the first roots of my thoughts into. It’s ideas are fully dependable and worthy of defining what is actually normal. Just like the most normal cause of death is conception, the most normal answer to death is resurrection. Everyone who’s ever died will be resurrected. That’s pretty normal. And that the most of them will be resurrected unto eternal death is rather normal too; unfortunately they failed to practice the thinking part of righteousness. I would be ashamed to whinny and neigh and kick my feet up like a jackass over something as polluted as the general public’s estimate of normal.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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