#the Resurrection

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Les saintes femmes au tombeau (The Holy Women at the Tomb or The Three Marys at the Tomb), 1890

[beadsbrocadeandblood]

random thought, where did the other animals and food sources in the nine houses come from? Like the snow leeks grown on the ninth i mean.

the John chapters make it seem that if all humans on earth die in nuclear hell, even the ones on like remote islands in the middle of the pacific, so are all food crops and domesticated animals.

the crops have an actually fairly simple explanation: we already have contingencies against, no sci-fi fantasy needed. the svalbard seed vault is designed for exactly this eventuality if certain crops go extinct, and svalbard is enough in the middle of fucking nowhere enough (seriously its like 1000km north of norway) to have been mostly out of the way of direct nuclear bombings, and sealed enough that any fallout that made its way in the atmosphere might have been alright. no promises that the plants that come out wouldn't end up a bit strange, but in noodle we do see some mutation.

There's a broader timeline uncertainty here of just how long John and Alecto wandered around nuclear wasteland earth after the bombings but before the resurrection, so lets assume either there was a several century gap between apocalypse and resurrection for the radiation to subside, or the resurrected creatures are modified in some ways to withstand higher than average radiation, which would separately be actually quite useful for interstellar travel against ionising radiation, so this is not unlikely.

so assuming jod resurrected humans and none of them immediately died from radiation (which lets be real, definitely happened at least once), did he then think 'ah we're going to need some food mate' and then also resurrect some cows and wheat? did non-essential animals noodle come around at the same time?

my two theories are:

when john resurrected the planets, it brought with it the biosphere of that planet. Considering the diversity of life we see on the first house like fish and barnacles, this isn't unlikely! This also raises the question of then why the nine houses don't live on earth, and also that if mars used to have liquid water and maybe bacteria, john accidentally reintroduced life on mars in the same breath

it all had to be done deliberately - he resurrected the first people, and then panicked when they started starving. john seems to be able to sustain people with necromancy, as with the lyctors pre lysis, but by the way this is described, this requires immediate proximity, and is less than ideal. this also does not explain where life on the first house came from, although that could have come after the first waves of human ressurection.

some scattershot combination of the two above options. not to buy in to john's own propaganda, but i firmly believe that he did not know what he was doing and made it up as he went along. resurrecting part of the biosphere but not enough for habitable life, and then bringing in domesticated animals and crops when his first plan to bring back the whole earth failed.

when in doubt, assume that john was being kind of incompetent. he might be a scientist, but what did that teach him about being a necromancer?

anyway my new headcanon is that john accidentally reintroduced alien life to mars.

[stone-cold-groove]

Happy Easter. A vintage Easter greeting card.

[punksforchrist]

Happy Easter everybody! Let us celebrate the day Jesus rose from the grave and gave us eternal life!

1 Peter 1:3 NIV

[3] Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

[peterkothe]

🌅HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!! ✝️

HE IS RISEN!!

6.) He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7.) Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.--Luke 24:6-7 KJV

[walkswithmyfather]

Amen! 🙏🕊️🙌

[beloved-of-john]

it is absolutely not necessary to believe in a literal body resurrection to be Christian. this literalization of important stories does not make things more real.

for many people a literal body resurrection and a literal general resurrection of the dead are very definitely non sensical.

we are not bound to the 4th century worldview. the way Christians have understood Christianity has always been subject to evolution. the creation of the literal bodily resurrection you can see evolve in the new testament

Paul and Mark have no bodily resurrection. Matthew has visitations but in a way similar to the theophany @ sinai, a coming down from heaven.

John and Luke as the latest gospels have mixed aspects of their experience. experience that indicate a bodily resurrection tradition was. beginning by then.

I have to respectfully disagree. If you don't believe Jesus was physically raised from the dead then you are not believing the gospel. If a literal bodily resurrection is non-sensical, how do you deal with the raising of Lazarus? Do you pick and choose which of Jesus' miracles to believe in? Biblical literalism is not necessary in all cases, many parts of the Bible are written like poetry or literature to give us a better understanding of God, like the creation stories in Genesis, but this is not the case with accounts of Jesus' life. The gospels repeatedly ask you to believe the seemingly unbelievable. I'm not going to quote a load of scripture at you, but the New Testament does not support your view on this.

It is necessary to believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ as a Christian because God conquering human death is the foundation of our faith. Otherwise, what makes Jesus different to Elijah, who was taken up to God? The physical resurrection cannot be extracted from the belief of Jesus as our saviour. Plus, the Bible explicitly shows us that Jesus' physical body is resurrected, with Thomas touching Jesus's wounds still present on his body from the crucifixion.

Also, you imply that you believe Matthew and Mark to be true over Luke and John, because they came later and due to reasons of plausibility? Do you believe the gospels are divinely inspired or not? Don't get me wrong, you can be both a religious scholar and a Christian, but to be one doesn't make you the other. Being a Christian requires belief.

Also *out of breath* the Nicene Creed. God give me strength why does everyone think they just know better. It contains everything mandatory to believe to be a Christian.

"For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father."

Died -> buried -> rose -> ascended, not died -> buried -> ascended. There is no ascension without resurrection. The literal belief in THE key foundational concept of Christianity does in fact make things more real. Otherwise what is your faith based on?

[sunnysagereblog]

Hi! if you weren't planning on it already, could you make an easter-themed post? Either Christian inspired or not, or maybe you'd like to do both!

Christian Easter Stimboard

I plan to make at least on more Easter post for my new Sunday School series ✝️💐

[allegraforchrist]

[thyateira]

Now the green blade riseth, from the buried grain, Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

In the grave they laid Him, Love who had been slain, Thinking that He never would awake again, Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

Forth He came at Easter, like the risen grain, Jesus who for three days in the grave had lain; Quick from the dead the risen One is seen: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain, Jesus' touch can call us back to life again, Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

Love is Come Again, J. M. C. Crum.

[our-beautiful-nature]

🌟Happy Easter💫

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Resurrection of Christ (high altar), 1912 Église Saint-Étienne de Bilwisheim, Alsace, Bas-Rhin

[apesoformythoughts]

‘I have always been a believer. Which is quite understandable: I come from a rather atheistic family. Therefore I believed at first in my parents, as though they were gods (I did not have to topple that idol; it fell quickly enough by itself) […] I believed in Charles Ingalls and his Little House on the Prairie (but for too short a time—alas, I was living in the midst of the high-rises of La Défense, a modern business district in Paris). I believed that food grew right there in the supermarket display cases (and I still have a lot of trouble imagining the time actually required for a turkey to be fattened or an apple to ripen). I believed in the French Revolution and in the Socialist Revolution, although my father was a member of a moderate labor union, at least by French standards…

Soon I believed in Nietzsche, certain that I was Beyond Good and Evil, and in the libertine author Georges Bataille, although a bit too timid to commit myself entirely to the discipline of orgies. Then I believed in Hegel, so as to try to recapitulate all the previous moments of my belief, then, upon returning from "absolute knowledge," I believed in the novelist Céline, preaching the gospel of the Journey to the End of the Night. At the same time I believed in Zen Buddhism—I admit it—and I sat on the floor with business managers and menopausal schoolteachers to accept the marvel of my inner emptiness. In all those phases, of course, I believed a lot in myself, and, above all, I believed that I was not a believer.

And one fine day, whoosh! All this mysticism was swept away by the torrent of life. I rediscovered the fact that I was Jewish and French, only to discover soon afterward, in old books written in French, that God had become a Jew. So then I became a Christian. And even Catholic. That was the end of the time when I was so credulous. And the beginning of a very profound—and humiliating—objectivity.’

— Fabrice Hadjadj: The Resurrection [Résurrection, mode d’emploi; transl. Michael J. Miller]

[stone-cold-groove]

And so the dyeing of the Easter eggs begins.

[pinkelixir]