{"id":74697,"date":"2019-06-03T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T20:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=74697"},"modified":"2019-06-03T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T20:19:48","slug":"new-testament-notes-356-359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/06\/new-testament-notes-356-359.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Notes 356-359"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Caravaggio's<\/a>
\u201cThe Incredulity of Saint Thomas,\u201d by Caravaggio, 1571-1610
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 24:36-43<\/a><\/p>\n

John 20:19-29<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Matthew 16:19; 18:18; Mark 16:14<\/p>\n

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In the Lukan account, Jesus makes a deliberate effort to impress upon the disciples that his resurrection was truly physical. \u00a0He tells them to touch him, and he eats before them \u2014 and not, presumably, because he\u2019s suddenly famished, as if being resurrected creates\u00a0a big appetite. \u00a0Of course, this simply confirms what the fact that the tomb was empty has already<\/em> indicated: \u00a0His body has been resurrected, not merely his spirit.<\/p>\n

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John\u2019s account adds the experience of Thomas, who is also given the opportunity of literally touching the body of the resurrected Lord.<\/p>\n

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But not everybody will have this privilege, and Jesus speaks to them, too: \u00a0To believe without seeing is, in its way, more blessed than insisting (as Thomas had and as Jesus had granted) on physical proof.<\/p>\n

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\"Duccio<\/a>
Duccio di Buoninsegna (ca. 1308-1311), \u201cJesus appears to the disciples at table\u201d
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mark 16:14-18<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most of us will not see Christ in this life. \u00a0But we have reliable accounts from reliable witnesses who have \u2014 both ancient and modern.<\/p>\n

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If we fail to credit those witnesses, we will be held accountable for our failure.<\/p>\n

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\"Galilean<\/a>
Sunset over Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee \u00a0(Wikimedia CC public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Matthew 28:16-20<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Mark 16:14-18; John 14:23<\/p>\n

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1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s difficult to imagine that \u201csome doubted\u201d even in the presence of the resurrected Lord. \u00a0But the fact of death is so universally well known and so widely understood as definitive, and wishful thinking so generally understood to be a dangerous spur to error, that some still wondered whether it was all too good to be true. \u00a0So much, I suppose, for the complacent modern notion that ancient people were credulous while we chronologically superior mortals are guided by pure, dispassionate reason.<\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve encountered some critics of Mormonism<\/a> who\u2019ve claimed that Christ\u2019s promise to be with his disciples \u201calway, even unto the end of the world,\u201d rules out the possibility of a universal apostasy. \u00a0But the phrase\u00a0translated by the King James as \u201ceven unto the end of the world\u201d is\u00a0\u1f15\u03c9\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03b1\u1f30\u1ff6\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2, and that last word,\u00a0\u03b1\u1f30\u1ff6\u03bd (compare English eon<\/em> or aeon<\/em>) could just as easily be rendered as \u201cage\u201d or \u201cperiod\u201d or, even, I suppose, \u201cdispensation.\u201d \u00a0So Jesus could have been saying that he would be with them \u201cto the close of the age\u201d or \u201cuntil the completion of the age,\u201d or \u201cuntil the close of the dispensation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Posted from Jerusalem, Israel<\/p>\n

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