Thank you for sharing these reflections. When we read through the old and new testaments, we see how they reinforce one another. The coherence of scripture and the intricate interrelationships in the works of dozens of authors spread out over more than a millennium is in itself miraculous, beyond human agency. That is the power of God's word.
While Paul and the Apostles and some of the women and about five hundred others did see Jesus resurrected (1Cor 15:6) it is worth noting that Jesus did not appear to many people after his resurrection, and most often he appeared "in another form"- he did not look like the physical person they knew before. (Mark 16:12, John 21:4)
The resurrected Jesus did not walk openly into Jerusalem and preach in the temple, as he had done before being killed.
The record of his life after his resurrection for the 40 days until he was taken up by the cloud is very thin in scripture.
The point of all this is that God did NOT want people to believe in Jesus and follow him by proof of sight but by faith and trust in him and to love him, although we can't see him.
Thank you for sharing these reflections. When we read through the old and new testaments, we see how they reinforce one another. The coherence of scripture and the intricate interrelationships in the works of dozens of authors spread out over more than a millennium is in itself miraculous, beyond human agency. That is the power of God's word.
While Paul and the Apostles and some of the women and about five hundred others did see Jesus resurrected (1Cor 15:6) it is worth noting that Jesus did not appear to many people after his resurrection, and most often he appeared "in another form"- he did not look like the physical person they knew before. (Mark 16:12, John 21:4)
The resurrected Jesus did not walk openly into Jerusalem and preach in the temple, as he had done before being killed.
The record of his life after his resurrection for the 40 days until he was taken up by the cloud is very thin in scripture.
The point of all this is that God did NOT want people to believe in Jesus and follow him by proof of sight but by faith and trust in him and to love him, although we can't see him.