32 God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it.
I'm a guy that likes facts and needs things to make sense logically and objectively. This can be a strain on my faith sometimes because there are things I just can't understand, miracles that can only be explained as that because there is not law of physics that helps make sense of it. In the past that was a real strain on my faith, not so as I am older.
This simple verse gives helps that side of me that can struggle with logic. He reminds the group of the fact that they all have seen that Jesus was raised from the dead. This book would not have survived if that was a lie. People would have torn it up. But instead they all felt the guilt of their actions because they knew he was speaking the truth.
its a fact, Jesus was raised from the dead. Its not logical and I don't need it to be. I believe. Funny when people attack our faith they can point to illogical things, but when scientist say life was born out of a rock that exploded that makes perfect sense. They have faith too, just misplaced in a human scientists' ability.
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I like your take. Faith like a child, is the approach we are supposed to take, but it's difficult sometimes. Especially if we aren't pursuing it. The farther I get away from our reading or going to church...the more ridiculous it can seem.
ReplyDeleteI'm struck here by the drastic change in the disciples. They went from a group of people hiding in an upper room, not wanting people to find them....to speaking in tongues and being out in the town square speaking to people from all nations. There is only 1 possible explanation for that.
4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues[a] as the Spirit enabled them.