Friends,
We would like to wish you all a happy and joyous Easter holiday – assuming that it holds any meaning for you. May it be a day of love, family and hope.
Just to add a little thought for your musing this day, we would like to pose the following. Please note; we make no claims of validity or "fact" regarding the matter one-way or the other. Rather… we are simply identifying the significance of the issue. It is for each of us to decide (or not) for ourselves what is true and what is fiction.
If the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is based on nothing more than myth and wishful thinking, then humanity has little to loose in assigning it to the same category as all of the other myths and legends that have originated throughout history. While it may add a certain amount of "color" and richness to our world as so many fables tend to do, we suffer little loss should we dismiss it or even ignore it altogether.
If, on the other hand, it is true… then it represents the most pivotal event in human history. Unlike the majority of other myths, the Easter story suggests that physical death need not be the end of conscious existence. More so, it even tells us that survival beyond the grave will ultimately result in each individual receiving a new physical body that will never again be subject to disease, aging or death (whatever exact form such a body may be). Indeed, its implications for each individual as well as all of humanity address the most profound questions of life, and... seem to dispel our greatest fear – death.
If therefore, death has truly been vanquished and eternal life been made a free gift that is available to everyone that simply asks, we would then ask… "What greater question faces each of us?" Except for this one "purported" event, all men ever born have died. We all face this ultimate destiny and the "eternal" question of what becomes of us after death - if anything - haunts us all… or at least most of us.
So then, what are we to do with this "story?" Considering its implications, it would (at minimum) seem "prudent" not to simply dismiss it out-of-hand. In fact, if there is even the remotest chance that the story is true, it would seem reasonable for each of us to research the matter to the greatest possible degree. We suggest that to do otherwise and in the end discover we were remiss in having failed to do so… would seem the greatest possible, uh… "oversight?" Talk about "missing your flight"!!!
God bless,
-Bob
