Outrageous

This is Easter weekend. A re-post from 2014:

Easter is a national holiday in America. Even "nones" (identifying with no religion) can celebrate Easter as the return of spring, life returning to the landscape (if you have winter at your location). 

Hey, me too - I love the green coming back to nature. But this Christian holiday is actually the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. As this author says: it's a stunning, outrageous claim.

He looked ordinary, used only his culture's technology (2000 years ago), and gathered around himself a relatively small band of followers. The apostle Peter explained why they followed him: "You have the words of eternal life."

Everything he did went to benefit other people. What mythical god ever lived a selfless life or went to his grave to redeem human beings? "[T]here’s nothing in any myth that comes close to the self-sacrificial love Jesus displayed when He went to the Cross."

from Stream