{"id":1326,"date":"2023-04-09T19:52:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T23:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frequentlyfaithful\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2023-04-09T19:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T23:52:24","slug":"easter-sunday-the-last-installment-in-the-limitations-of-language-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frequentlyfaithful\/2023\/04\/easter-sunday-the-last-installment-in-the-limitations-of-language-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Sunday: The Last Installment in the Limitations of Language Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Holy Week has led to this day: Easter Sunday. Perhaps taking a closer look at what we mean by \u201csalvation\u201d can bring us closer to the real \u201cgood news.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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What a week it\u2019s been! On\u00a0<\/span>Palm Sunday<\/span><\/a>, I suggested that a significant problem with organized religion today is language. Then on\u00a0<\/span>Monday<\/span><\/a>, I proposed that \u201chumanity\u201d and \u201cdivinity\u201d might not be the opposite terms we usually think they are. On\u00a0<\/span>Tuesday<\/span><\/a>, I played with non-traditional ways of understanding what we mean when we use the word \u201cGod.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On\u00a0<\/span>Wednesday<\/span><\/a>, I explored concepts like\u00a0<\/span>Satan, heaven,<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0hell\u00a0<\/span><\/em>in a contemporary context. For\u00a0<\/span>Holy Thursday<\/span><\/a>, I played with definitions of\u00a0<\/span>sin\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and\u00a0<\/span>prayer<\/span><\/em>\u00a0that might better align with a more modern understanding of \u201cGod.\u201d Then on\u00a0<\/span>Good Friday<\/span><\/a>, I discussed three critical elements in the gospel reading that point to a more modern interpretation of religious language that makes sense in our world today.<\/span><\/p>\n

I took Holy Saturday off from writing to listen for what might be stirring inside me about the reality of Easter. So here we are!<\/span><\/p>\n

First, let\u2019s get a critical question out of the way. Did the Jesus of history truly come back to life? Did he experience a literal, bodily resuscitation three days after he died? I don\u2019t have an answer to that. But I do have some thoughts about the answers that people commonly give.<\/span><\/p>\n

Easter Answer #1<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Many people answer with, \u201cOf course! It was necessary for salvation. Jesus had to die because of our sins, and God had to raise him back to life to show that new life awaits us as well after we die.\u201d I\u2019m not too sure about this answer.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have written before that I\u2019m no fan of the\u00a0<\/span>substitutionary atonement theory<\/span><\/a>, which holds that God sent Jesus as the \u201csacrificial lamb\u201d who took on our sin to free us from it. I see several problems with this viewpoint:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. It makes God into a supernatural being primarily interested in punishment.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>As I have written before<\/span><\/a>, I do not understand God as a spirit-being in the heavens that makes choices about our lives. But I do understand our need to explain the unexplainable in the only way we know how \u2013 in human terms. We create God in our own image. Countless stories throughout the Old Testament demonstrate God as a loving and generous but also angry and vengeful king.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. It makes Jesus into a tool, a means to an end.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0I cannot think of the person of Jesus in that way. But I do understand that the language of sacrifice was a crucial part of the religious understanding of the Jews during Jesus\u2019 time and long before. It makes sense that the early Christians would understand their faith through the lens of \u201csacrifice.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. It makes the crux of religious faith into a transaction.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0I think the heart and soul of religious faith should be transformation. Transformation is a process of evolving into greater, richer experiences of unity. Transaction is a process of exchanging one thing for another.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Easter Answer #2<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Others answer the question about Jesus being resurrected in flesh and blood by saying, \u201cHe had to be bodily raised from death, or his message and ministry would have been for nothing.\u201d I\u2019m not too sure about that one. If Jesus weren\u2019t raised, would that print a big red X on everything he taught? Would everything his disciples experienced during his life and everything we encounter in the scriptures be null and void if he stayed in the tomb? I\u2019m not sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Easter Answer #3<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Some answer the question by saying, \u201cJesus could not have been literally, physically brought back to life three days after his death because this is a scientific, medical impossibility.\u201d I\u2019ve written before that I can\u2019t accept a belief system that doesn\u2019t align with established science and my life experience. Coming back to life aligns with neither.<\/span><\/p>\n

    But that answer, too, comes up short. Surely, there had to be some experience of \u201cnew life\u201d after Jesus died. There had to be something so amazing, so life-changing, that Jesus\u2019 followers experienced after his death that made them go on to suffer their own persecutions and deaths because of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Beyond Easter Answers<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

    As I said, a corpse three days in coming back to life does not align with science or my own experience of the world.\u00a0<\/span>But it does align with the overall pattern of the universe.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

    As I write this, the sun is poised atop<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>its celestial abode nursing all life on earth with the mysterious milk we call light, just as it did yesterday and will again<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>tomorrow<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Spring blooms are bursting forth from what just a few weeks ago looked like withered limbs. Caterpillars are gift-wrapping their tomorrows with a homespun shroud that will soon birth them into butterflies, just as they did last spring and this time millions of years ago and will again every year as the planet continues to twirl<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Right now, animals throughout this hemisphere are being roused again from hibernation, and newborn bears, bees, box turtles, groundhogs, and squirrels are once again<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>populating a post-winter world, just like they\u2019ve done for millions of years and will continue to as long as their planetary home agrees to welcome their arrival.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Life is more than just life. Somehow, some way, we get the deluxe, premium version of Life which comes with birth, growth, decline, death, and rebirth, all for the price of admission. And no ads.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Back to the Original Question<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Don\u2019t ask me if Jesus\u2019 resurrection was a bodily resuscitation or a more spiritual experience of him, his message, and his ministry in some ridiculously transformative new way. I have no idea. And regardless, I\u2019m not smart enough to propose a definitive answer even if God sent me a cheat sheet.<\/span><\/p>\n

    But I can suggest a way of understanding \u201csalvation\u201d that makes sense to me in today\u2019s world. I do not believe Jesus needed to take on such horrible suffering to get us our Get Out of Jail Free card. But I do believe salvation is real.<\/span><\/p>\n

    If we came from God, live in God, and return to God, then that means we have divine DNA. Therefore, divinity and humanity aren\u2019t opposites like we usually think; they may be two areas along a single continuum. Following that logic leads me to conclude that heaven and hell are literal places but rather conditions of being. And if God isn\u2019t a supernatural, cloud-based puppeteer, then Satan must also be a handy way to talk about evil personified.<\/span><\/p>\n

    For me, prayer is anything we do internally or externally that reminds us of our divine DNA and the sacred unity we all participate in. Sin, then, is anything that disconnects us from this divine source. It\u2019s failing to remember who and what we are.<\/span><\/p>\n

    So, What Did Easter Save Us From?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

    I do not think that the opposite of faith is doubt. Rather, the opposite of faith is\u00a0<\/span>fear.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>I think that\u2019s what Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter have saved us from. If when we die, our divine DNA returns to the sacred soup of Life that changes and evolves and continues on, then there\u2019s nothing to be afraid of, right? Death isn\u2019t an ending, only a transformation, just like the caterpillar\u2019s cocoon and the darkness before the dawn and the brittle branches of winter that are creating the beginnings of new blooms deep within.<\/span><\/p>\n

    There is nothing to be afraid of. Nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Does that mean that in understanding this, I will not be anxious or frightened anymore? Hell, no. I have many millions of years of evolutionary algorithms embedded deeply into my operating system. But knowing the truth of who I am, who you are, and what Life is means that I don\u2019t have to live in the scary places. I can remember who and what I really am. I can reclaim my sacred birthright. And so can you.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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