Have you considered that Jesus goes to a cross so that you may go there too? I don’t mean that only metaphorically or spiritually or any sense other than physically. Jesus went to a cross so that you could be nailed up there beside him.
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What is the Judeo/Christian hope? Jeff Vann, David Davis, and Penny Vann explain why “Resurrection” is the answer.
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Skeptics love to throw supposed Bible contradictions in the faces of their Christian friends or family. Many of them are quite pitiful and require only a few seconds of thought or a quick review of the context of the passages to refute. However, there are some that require a little more thought or in-depth study to resolve. The two accounts of the circumstances surrounding Judas’s death found in the gospels and Acts are somewhere in the middle of this scale of difficulty in my opinion. Here is how a skeptic is likely to word this challenge:
“Did Judas hang himself, or did he fall to his death? The Bible says both!”
Let’s take a look at the passages in question here and consider a few things
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Without belaboring the basics, I thought it would be interesting to consider what special contribution Adventism can make to the season of Lent. At first glance, the two might appear to be strange bedfellows. While Lent looks to our past and present condition, Adventism by its very nature looks forward to the future. To the uninformed, the essential message of Adventism is that the Christian’s hope should be fixed upon the day of Christ’s return, that day in which the reign of Christ will be fully revealed along with new heavens and a new earth. It is the message that God promises to set everything aright in the end, bringing all of Creation to the glorious end instituted by her Creator. It is the promise of a coming age far removed from our present condition, but which carries with it the assurance that we who have been joined to Jesus Christ shall live again to see all things made new.
The value this conviction brings to the season of Lent is that the hope of resurrection is necessarily preceded by the need for death.
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I know, you have been told that human souls are immortal: they can never die. You have been told “you have an immortal soul and are capable of living in immortal glory.”[1] But what if the Bible spoke of souls as dying, and referred to the dead as dead souls. Would that make a difference.? Would you have to re-examine your theology of the soul? I hope you would.
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