kindness and generosity
Ian is in full flow on the hardness and inhumanity that can be fostered by a market-driven society. I like being called back regularly to consider what it is that makes us fully human.
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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It’s really well worth reading Tom Wright’s recent “Surprised by Hope” which critiques the kind of unhistorical argument presented by Vermes – and also explains exactly why nobody expected Jesus to rise again – resurrection, it was believed, was what would happen for all the righteous at the end of the age, not for one human being now, in the present.
To the amphibian commenter:
So . . . then you admit that Jesus never predicted his own individual physical resurrection?
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Thomas and the other disciples saw Christ as more than a vision. Each did a physical check. Thomas was pointed to the wounds in His hands and side, with others He ate fish. They died as martyrs because they believed in a physical resurrection.