Resurrection

I am reading at the moment a very profound book, to which I am only partly through.  It is called Surprised By Hope -Rethinking Heaven, The Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by N.T. Wright.  This is my first read from this author and he has come highly recommended from many of my friends, and is already becoming one of my favorite authors.

In his first section he brings light to the resurrection, a completely implausible event in history that changed history since its occurrence.  I would like to focus for my own train of thought, his portion on science.  Science tries to disprove the resurrection, through scientific method, whether through skepticism, historical criticism, or even just simple understood fact.  The resurrection cannot happen, it is not possible, it is inevitably a failed idea.  Man does not rise from the dead, science proves this, there is no way to prove this obscure far-fetched idea.  The absence of life is death, and death has no life, for life does not exist in death.  Science is tested through a number of factors, but eventually it can be said to be truth or fact when repeatedly it is tested and the same conclusions can be made.  In other words the hypothesis is proven.  Honestly though there are many events in history that have happened and only happened once in that way.  For example lets take man's victory on landing on the moon.

Man has landed on the moon numerous times, however there was a first, a time where something was implausible, unthinkable, and truly unbelievable.  But this event occurred, man landed on the moon, and truly man has only landed on the moon for the first time once.  All evidence at the time believed it could be true, but could not test its theory until it happened,  Now of course there was the use of Fibonacci's numbers that helped chart this event and make it happen.  However, to anyone in the past before this took place; most would have thought that is was an obscure idea, and though a thrilling idea, it was truly impossible.  But now in today's world we do not doubt for a moment if this journey to the moon is possible, we know it is, for it happens time and time again.  But things sometimes do go wrong and this proven scientific idea of flying to the moon is possible, sometimes the rocket does not make it their even with proven thought.  Now this brings us to the Resurrection.

And looking at the Resurrection I am referring to Christ's, not the other few occurrences in the Bible.  Science looks at the Resurrection and says its not possible, it can't be proved, and truly cannot be hypothesized.  But we know that after the Resurrection there were numerous people that believed it could happen.  The disciples for example did not believe that the Messiah had to die, and after his death were not expecting or awaiting eagerly the resurrection.  They believed it was over, they did not believe that rising from the dead could happen in the past and that it would not happen after Jesus' death.  But something happened, their belief in the Resurrection changed, their belief was changed, what they believed to be impossible, now was possible and tangible, to which doubting Thomas found for himself.  Something unbelievable became believable, just like man's first time landing on the moon.

In conclusion I was just like to say to all of the skeptics out there that God is outside of logic, he is outside of science, for he is not a created being, and only creation can be proved through science, through logic and such, but God is outside of the natural.  I love the fact that any time God acts its impossible, his actions super cede the laws of nature.  Just like the crossing of the Red Sea, the Israelite's believed for their entire lives that it was impossible for water to be separated and for someone to walk and cross on dry ground, but it happened and their belief in the impossible became possible.  That is what God is, and that is what the Resurrection is, a belief in the unthinkable, becoming truth overcoming all rational thought.  Though my argument up above is just a small one there are many more found in N.T.'s book proving the resurrection and defeating all arguments that science could give. 

You know the funny thing about God is that he is in every thing, but it is hard to find him, unless you seek him with all your heart, not with science alone. 

~CDS~