How the Resurrection Undoes Our Need to Be Proven Right
This post was taken from an op-ed written by Dr. Russell Moore, the Dean of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. I've been reading his blog and columns for a number of months and have become a big fan of his writing. You can visit his website here. Here is his post. As Jesus drowned in his own blood, the spectators yelled words quite similar to those of Satan in the wilderness: “Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe” (Mk. 15:32). But Jesus didn’t jump down. He didn’t ascend to the skies. He just writhed there. The bloated corpse of Jesus hit the ground as he was pulled off that stake, spattering warm blood and water on the faces of the crowd. That night, the religious leaders probably read Deuteronomy 21 to their families, warning them about the curse of God on those who are “hanged on a tree.” Fathers probably told their sons, “Watch out that you don’t ever wind up like him.” Those Roman soldiers probably went home and washed the blood of Jesus from under their fingernails and played with their children in front of [...]