No matter how folks twist who they think Christ is in these days of power and policy, let us remember Who Christ was by what He didn’t do…and what He did. Who He was and is and always shall be:
“Have you ever wondered why Jesus, the God of the whole universe…did nothing to stop His persecutors and tormentors? He was captured, tortured, and killed—all passive things. Yet when He came back from the dead, He declared that He had defeated death, overcome the world, and conquered evil. At face value He didn’t appear to do anything, but this is the twist: He didn’t have to. If Christ had done battle with a personification of death or engaged in single combat with the devil, itmight make more sense to us visually, but it would send a very different message: namely, that might makes right, that Christ defeated evil by virtue of His superior power. That would imply a problematic universe, one of no moral content at all apart from the use of power. But this is not the message of the gospel. That Jesus conquered evil and death without force is a witness to the ultimate reality of Goodness…Goodness doesn’t need to use force to prove its reality if it is reality. This is the same reason Jesus couldn’t stay dead: He is life itself, and life itself cannot die.” (Dr. Zachary Porcu)
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