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Easter in Eden?

March  23, 2008  - Dale

Easter - the season of new life. The season of a spiritual Spring where life erupts again after the winter of death. Fair descriptions of Easter do you think?

Certainly Easter is connected with the creation. It is about the most dramatic and most terrible thing that has ever happened to the creation. It is about death. At least it is about undoing death. Or is it?

Much modern discussion suggests that people do not want to undo death. They just want to continue to exist in some form or other. As long as life continues… that is the main thing.  Greek myths and various images from the Bible can build a picture of a pleasant sort of life after death, that in a sense ignores death and leaves it behind.

So in a way death is denied.... Read the rest of the Article. Post a Comment.

Good/Excellent Friday

March  21, 2008  - Ian

What is so good about Good Friday? Is it the day off work? Is it the public holiday? Is it the Easter Egg(s) that is soon to come your way? Is it decorating the eggs? Is it the hunt for the Easter Eggs? Is it the hot cross buns that are so yummy to eat? Is it the school holidays? Is it going to church? Is it the cards or the sweets/candies? What makes Good Friday good for you?

There are lots of good things about Good Friday and all of the above are good.

But for Jesus on the first Good Friday was there anything good for him?... Read the rest of the Article. Post a Comment.

Choosing bananas

January  20, 2008  - Dale

One of my earliest scientific theories concerned the little brown bruises (about the size of a thumb print) that appeared inside a banana after the peel was removed. My theory was that certain shoppers (I must confess I have a picture in my head of a certain type of shopper) pressed the bananas to see if they were firm or soft before they bought them (actually in these cases before they decided not to buy them).

Sometimes in discussions about the relationship between God and humans, God can be pictured as a kind of divine banana shopper. Why does he choose this one and leave another? Is he looking for some kind of quality in us before he chooses us? Is it possible to predict whether one is a suitable kind of banana? Or to be sure he won’t throw us back? Are our unbelieving relatives the ones with the divine bruise of rejection?

These discussions always seem dismal and depressing but they arise from the mention in the scriptures that God does choose people. I think they also arise from our observation of the variety of those who believe. It seems hard to find a common factor that explains why God has apparently chosen this group....  Read the rest of the Article. Post a Comment [1 Comment]

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2008  theology blogs

Easter in Eden?

23  March 2008

Good/Excellent Friday

21  March 2008

Choosing bananas

20 January 2008