But He Rose From The Grave... Right?
(I'm not trying to offend anyone or go against anyone's beliefs, but both Catholic Christians and Christians believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, so keep that in mind as you read on.) Recently my Bible study teacher has been comparing religions... Specifically Christianity (let's consider it a religion), and Catholicism. He said a few things that actually confused me, and question a few things I had been told. He spoke of things from "how to receive the Holy Spirit" to "abortion" to the reason I wanted to blog for the second time this week... "If you've ever been to Victory or CCF they're whole service is 'Hallelujah, amen, amen' and Catholics ask the question 'why can't our service be more rock and roll and more fun?'... The reason we cannot have a continuous praise and worship and be more 'rock and roll, amen, amen' is... When someone dies you don't celebrate... You mourn, right? That's why we only celebrate for the Meal, and we're more serious during the rest of the mass..." -Professor X But Jesus rose from the grave... Right? Why would you celebrate a MEAL and not a SAVIOR... THEE Savior? Yes we speak of His coming, birth, life, healing, ministry, death and everything else He did when He was here on Earth, BUT what happened to the most important part of the Gospel?! "Jesus died, and was buried." The end. If this were the case, aren't we still waiting for the Savior? We cannot cut out the part when He was RAISED ON THE THIRD DAY and "proved" that He WAS and IS the Savior or else why are we even having church services and talking about Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah? Without the resurrection, Jesus was just a really knowledgeable, helpful, wise, prophetic healer who was only 100% MAN. I can't stress enough that the resurrection is the reason we can look to Jesus as our Savior and know that we have not believed in vain. I just want this to be a reminder and eye opener that if you don't celebrate Him rising from the dead, why still mourn His death (which He died for you) 2000 years later? "For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve." -1 Corinthians 15:3-5











