{"id":128463,"date":"2024-04-16T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128463"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:23:52","slug":"max-lucado-the-easter-miracle-in-other-words-changed-everything-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128463","title":{"rendered":"Max Lucado&#8211;&#8220;The Easter miracle, in other words, changed everything&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.com\/what-happens-when-you-die-an-easter-meditation\/\">there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked the question, \u201cWhat will we be after we die?\u201d The human race has conjured up four answers.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nothing \u2013 we will decay and\/or disintegrate. Death is a dead end. Our works and reputation might survive, not us.<\/li>\n<li>Ghosts \u2013 Phantoms of what we once were. Pale as Edgar Winters\u2019 beard. Structured as a morning mist. What will we be after we die? Spectres.<\/li>\n<li>Or, hawks. Or, cows, or a car mechanic in Kokomo. Reincarnation rewards or punishes us according to our behavior. We come back to earth in another mortal body. Or,<\/li>\n<li>As part of the universe. Eternity absorbs us like a lake absorbs a storm. We return to what we were before we were what we are\u2026 we return to the cosmic consciousness of the universe.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>According to some folks, we bury the soul when we bury the body like a wrapping with a hot dog, never expecting to see either again. Other people propose that the spirit abandons the body as a butterfly escapes the cocoon. Christianity, on the other hand, posits a new startling, surprising idea. What you had before death, you\u2019ll have after death, only better, much, much better. You will go to paradise: heaven, but not home. Then, upon the return of Christ, you will receive a spiritual body and inhabit a restored universe. This is the promise of God. This promise hinges on the resurrection of Christ. The Christian hope depends entirely upon the assumption that Jesus Christ died a physical death, vacated an actual grave and ascended into heaven where he, at this moment, reigns as head of the church.<\/p>\n<p>The Easter miracle, in other words, changed everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From there: When asked the question, \u201cWhat will we be after we die?\u201d The human race has conjured up four answers. Nothing \u2013 we will decay and\/or disintegrate. Death is a dead end. Our works and reputation might survive, not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128463\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,571,178,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christology","category-easter","category-eschatology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128464,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128463\/revisions\/128464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}