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Christ the perfect image

More than once the New Testament tells us that Christ Jesus is “the image of God”. While humans at the beginning were created “in the image of God”, Jesus is said to be the image of God. He reflects God’s reality perfectly because not only was he a holy man, and like God in his holiness, but he was the “I am” in person – God himself come among us in human form. As such, we may ask how he fulfilled the role that we humans should fulfil as being God’s image in the world. He reflected God’s nature so perfectly that he said, “Whoever sees me, sees him who sent me” (John 12.45), and “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14.9). Jesus shows us what God is like.

What was Jesus’ purpose? He told us plainly: “I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me” (John 6.38). Using figurative language he said, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work” (John 4.34). He did this so well that he could testify, “I love the Father” (John 14.31), and “I do always what is pleasing to him” ( i.e. pleasing to the Father, John 8.29).  Jesus was lovingly totally obedient to the will of God, his Father. That is the very definition of holiness.

But Jesus fleshed out what that will of his Father involved, particularly in two main services that he rendered to humankind.

The first, he stated to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who was judging him: “For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world – to bear witness to the truth” (John 18.37). In another passage, he refers to himself as “a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God” (John 8.40). Elsewhere he affirms, “What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me” (John 12.50). It is because of these affirmations that I have been insisting that we may know truth to answer our essential questions, since Jesus brought us truth from God. We need truth and God sent it to us through Jesus.

The second vital service, that Jesus was sent by God the Father to accomplish for us, is formulated in complementary ways by Jesus: “The Son of Man [Jesus himself] came to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19.10). This was the supreme role that Jesus was sent to fulfil: we were lost, and he came to save us. How he did this deserves a fuller elaboration than I can give this time, but Jesus himself made it clear when he said, “the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10.45). Jesus’ mission was to “give his life”; he repeats this when having just said, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep”, he adds: “For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life… I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father” (John 10.11, 17-18). 

In other words, Jesus came from the Father into the world seeking to save the lost, and in order to do so, he was to give his life as a ransom. This is the deep meaning of Jesus’ death, which I hope to develop in subsequent blog posts. It is of the very essence of Jesus’ divine mission of salvation. And it was vitally necessary in order for us to find true life, to find God, and to find God’s forgiveness. 

Jesus could pray to his Father at the end of his life: “I have glorified you on the earth, having finished the work that you gave me to do” (John 17.4). Mission accomplished!

Clive Every-Clayton

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Three human needs

Humans have numerous needs – physical, social, emotional… and I want to highlight three.

First we desire, and need, some kind of purpose or aim in life. We are so constituted that we are purposeful: all the time we envisage what we want to accomplish and set out to achieve it. To have no aim in life is the gateway to despair. Now it is odd that on atheistic assumptions, where the universe is supposedly just the result of chance and therefore purposeless, that it should have given birth to persons whose very fibre is to seek to fulfil their purposes. We must be clear: if there is no God, there is no purpose to anything. The fact that we do live by purposes, however, fits in well with the biblical vision that we are made in the likeness of a Creator who has a purpose for us, his creatures.

Secondly, human beings, from the cradle to the grave, need love. A purely materialist origin of the universe and mankind cannot account for this personal need we all have. But if “God is love” (1 John 4.8) one can easily see that persons made in his image are capable of loving and are in need of love. “God loved the world”, Jesus tells us (John, 3.16): he loves us all. Here our need for love can be uniquely satisfied. If we are loved by God, we must love him in return – and this is the most important commandment of Scripture, according to Jesus. Blaise Pascal wrote: “The sign of the true religion must be that it obliges men to love God… No other religion than ours has done so” (Pensée §214/491). You cannot really oblige or force people to love God; love must be won. But God can be loved when we first receive strong evidence that he loves us. This evidence is supremely provided by Jesus: “God proved his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5.8). That verse is so full of rich truth I will come back to it another time to explain it more fully, for it speaks of divine love that alone fully satisfies our needy heart. The apostle who wrote it also said: “the Son of God loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2.20). To grasp what that means will deliver you forever from despair and aimlessness.

Our third need is for intellectually satisfying answers – in other words, we need truth we can rely on. We are rational beings and our reason requires true answers to our basic vital questions. There can be no satisfaction to this need except through the infinite wisdom of God’s mind; he alone can answer our dilemma. The atheistic materialist has problems here: “on his assumptions,” said Cornelius Van Til, “his own rationality is a product of chance.” If our brains resulted from chance movement of atoms and molecules, there is no real intelligence, only an illusion of personality. Without a rational creator on whom we can ground the validity of our rationality, we are for ever lost in confusion, for the very value of our mental processes would be undermined. God’s rationality alone can justify the value of human rationality. “Unless God is back of everything, you cannot find meaning in anything” (Van Til). 

All three of these needs are met by our Creator God. His wisdom specialises in revealing truth to satisfy our minds. His loves is like none other, to satisfy our hearts. His purposes are the best for us as the true way to find fulfilment.

Clive Every-Clayton

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The real purpose of our lives

There is a crucial fact that God our Creator told us from the very beginning of his revelation in the chapter of Genesis that Jesus quoted: it is that we are made “in his image”. Our purpose in life must correspond to what we really are – and we are image-bearers of our Creator God.

An image is a reflection, a likeness to, or a copy of, the original; we are meant to be like God – not in his infinite power and greatness, but in his personal character of love and goodness. God wants to see his virtues reflected in his human creatures. So as we go about our work and fulfil our family responsibilities, we are to show forth something of the glorious nature of our perfect God.

If this seems too idealistic to be feasible – and we all seem to fall short – I shall shortly deal with that issue. But I am starting out these explanations by looking at the pure and pristine creation of man and woman at the very start, before any imperfection arose; we’ll look again shortly at our difficulty actually living this out.

There are actually two aspects to this deep purpose of our existence: not only to be in God’s likeness, but also to be in good relationship with him. Here we are dealing (finally!) with the very essence of what it means to be a human being in the plan of God our Maker.

We should wonder – what does God want, in making people in his likeness? First, he wants to see his goodness reflected in his personal creatures – so we are to be kind, loving and holy as God is kind, loving and holy. This is absolutely fundamental to our human fulfilment.

But just as vital, is God’s desire to have a harmonious relationship with his personal creatures. Our personality enables us to enjoy personal relationships not only with other people, but also with God himself. Again, the fact that many know nothing of this in their experience does not mean that it is impossible: we’ll come back to that later. But a real relationship with God – what might that look like?

First, it means receiving God’s love for us, and loving him in return. I will develop this glorious theme in time to come; but our Creator loves us, and desires that we love him. In that relationship is the key to the greatest possible fulfilment and happiness that we can know.

Second, it means seeking to live a life that does indeed reflect God’s goodness and his kindness, his love and his holiness, in the world in which we live. When God as it were looks down on us, what does he want to see? People being kind to each other. Not for nothing did Jesus insist on his commandment to love our neighbour as ourselves. God is love, and he wants to see love – true, godly love – reflected in his creatures.

Thirdly, God wants us to share his purposes and collaborate with him in the world to see those purposes come to pass. We may be co-labourers with God to the end of seeing his will done on earth, his good and righteous will. And we begin by committing ourselves to it in response to his love for us. 

Clive Every-Clayton

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Atheists are purposeless

If there is no Creator God, and if atheists are right, there can logically be no purpose for our human existence. I hold that only the Creator could have a purpose in mind for his human creations; if there is no Creator God, there can be no purpose either for the whole universe to exist or for our human life. Atheism therefore has no answer to our deep desire to find the reason for our existence. No God, no purpose. Atheists have no ultimate reason for living; they may seek to do what they think is right and good, or they may give themselves over to a hedonistic lifestyle to get the maximum of pleasure before they die; but it is all meaningless, utterly without any overarching scheme or goal.

We don’t, however, believe in God’s existence as our Creator because of this kind of argument, but because God sent his Son into the world that we might hear his truth on the important questions of our existence. Jesus told us God is our Creator; that is an essential truth that we must take on board.

God’s purpose for our lives is profound. In Genesis chapter 1, as I have mentioned, the basic tasks God gave humankind are to multiply (have families) and to govern the world under his guidance. This means that both family and work are instituted by God and blessed by him, though he also insists, in that same chapter, on the importance of periodic rest from work.

Human work takes many forms: it includes developing our natural God-given talents, in study and education, in the affairs of men, business, politics and economics. It includes cultural activities like writing, composing, singing and dancing, music and art. From the start it involved cultivation, care for animals, agriculture and care for the planet, and developed in so many areas to beautify life, including bringing up children and caring for people, and much more.

All good works are thus ennobled, valorised and blessed in God’s good purposes, and we find satisfaction both in work and in family life.

All this leaves unsaid the most important aspect of the purpose of our lives: “all things were made by God and for God. He was before all things, and he maintains all things in existence”. That is what the New Testament says and it provides the key to God’s real deep purposes for our lives. We exist for God. He made us for himself. We find fulfilment only when we are in contact with God. That is why our hearts are so desperate for love, meaning, understanding, and true fulfilment: it is also why human societies everywhere are religious – there is a “God-shaped void” in our existence. We somehow know that he must be there, but we reach out after him in vain so much of the time, or we just follow the religious traditions into which we were born. The principle remains, however: if we are not in meaningful relationship with our Creator, the God who made us for himself, we will be forever frustrated, and that is the sad experience of so many people.

Atheists may seek all the pleasures this world affords, yet they still miss out on that which alone satisfies the human heart – a friendly relationship with the God who made us for himself. Indeed, their very refusal to envisage such a relationship damns them to a life of profound dissatisfaction – unless they think again.

Clive Every-Clayton

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Created for a purpose

When an engineer or an artisan contemplates what he wants to make, he or she works towards a purpose. They have in mind not only what they want to produce, but why they want to make it, or for what purpose it is designed. So it is with the divine Creator: he had a purpose in mind when he made the universe, the world, and humankind in his likeness. This means that there is meaning to our existence! This is the answer to our big question – what are we here for? The only one who can give a reliable answer to the question of our meaning and purpose is the brilliant designer, the creator God who made us.

The reason science cannot find the purpose of life is that science does not deal in purposes, but rather in causes. Science studies the material realities of the world, which are incapable of having purposes, because purpose demands the will of a person. Science can envisage no personality at the start of the universe, so for science there can be no intelligent design nor any purpose. Purpose is attributed by persons to what they are doing or going to do. God our Creator is both infinite and personal and when God set to making humans, he had a purpose in mind.

The next big question, then, is what was God’s purpose in creating humans? The clue is in the other expression in the context of that creation: “in his likeness”. It is a profound and complex affirmation: God made humans not infinite like he is, but personal like he is. 

He is infinite in power – to be able to create the whole universe when there was nothing before he made it. Scientists describe the amazing explosion with mighty power and extreme heat that was the beginning of all things: and they tell us the constants of physics were there from the very start. But in that very act of creation, God’s infinite wisdom and personal creativity was at work as well. So God is not mere power – he has thoughts, he speaks, he loves, he makes decisions, he is personal. And because he is personal (at an infinite level) he works according to his purposes and he is capable of telling us what his intention is for us humans. We too, made in his likeness, have similar personal ability, so that we can understand him when he communicates and enter into his purposes for us.

So it is, then, that when God speaks to humankind, he reveals his purpose for our existence – the meaning of our lives.  What a service that is that he renders to us! How thankful we should be that we can at last know why we are here and what we are supposed to be doing – and that from the infinite source of all wisdom, from our Creator himself, who sent his Son to tell us!

So what is his purpose for us? There are different facets to it, but the initial description of the creation of man and woman in Genesis 1 that Jesus refers to, it gives us the practical purpose: “And God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion” – over all that is on the earth. Quite an ordinary kind of charter: have children (multiply) and have responsibility as the lord of the world (under God, of course, for it is God who sets humankind in that high status.) This ennobles all the down to earth reality of human work and family life, for these are ordained by God. This is therefore the good way to live. This is the real-world aspect of our purpose as human beings. We have a world to explore and to make to flourish; that is our task. But why we do that, is another chapter.

Clive Every-Clayton

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Does evolution refute creation?

Some, reading what I wrote about the Creator, may be of the opinion that the theory of evolution has negated the idea of creation, so I need to clarify a few things. 

First, evolution envisages the development of species: creation concerns the absolute beginning of everything that exists (apart from the eternal God himself). No-one can seriously claim that evolution created the universe. Only the almighty Creator could do that.

Secondly, evolution does not require atheism: there are theistic evolutionists who hold that God intervened in the evolutionary process to constitute human beings as we know them today –that is, conscious personal beings made in God’s image, capable of relationship with God.

Thirdly, evolution has not actually been proved – indeed, it is incapable of proof since vast ages of time would be required for demonstration by experimentation. Nancy Pearcey, who knows far more about this than I do, summing up a science article in Newsweek, wrote: “The fossil record does not, nor ever will, support the Darwinian scenario of a smooth continuous progress of life-forms, nicely graded from simple to complex”. 

Fourthly, Phillip E. Johnson’s research on the bases of evolutionary theory has shone light on the naturalistic or atheistic assumptions underlying the evolutionary theses. “The doctrine that some known process of evolution turned a protozoan into a human is a philosophical assumption,” he affirms, “not something that can be confirmed by experiment or historical studies of the fossil record”. So evolution has not been demonstrated following the exacting demands for proof and truth that we expect from science. Evolution does not refute creation. 

Some atheists may hold tenaciously to evolution because they do not want to envisage a Creator God; only God knows their deep reasons, but it is a shame to refuse our loving Creator as if his existence would be harmful. The Christian option has multiple indications of its validity and explanatory power to valorise our personal reality, whereas mindless evolution would logically reduce us to mindless animals or soulless machines. Such a philosophy is unliveable. 

Jesus’ teaching that “from the beginning God made them male and female” (Mark 10.6), does infinitely more than evolutionary theory to enable us properly to understand ourselves. It not only valorises our personal faculties, but it provides a framework for real meaning and purpose. Indeed, the understanding that we were created by God frees us from the existential despair that is communicated by the hopeless and ultimately groundless vision that we came about by blind, mindless chance.

Authentic hope for answers can only come from the Creator informing us himself; and his wisdom and love have found the way to do that – by divine revelation, centred on Jesus.

Clive Every-Clayton

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Begin at the beginning

Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? These are the basic questions we all ask at some time – and so many people are frustrated because they don’t get the answers they need. So did Jesus tell us the true answers to these and our other key questions about life, death, God and the universe? Let’s see.

Jesus laid the foundation to it all when, questioned about the ethics of divorce, he referred to his Father, God, as the Creator “who made them from the beginning…” (Matthew 19.4). We need read no further for the moment: right there we have a vital clue to understanding who we are. The key truth we are to grab hold of here is that God made man and woman. God is our Creator, and Jesus adds, “he made them male and female”.

This means, first of all, we are not here by chance. The human species has not been “thrown up” by some fluke accident that made life possible, and we are not the result of an extremely long process of upward improvement in species. We need to put out of our minds that root of despair that sees humankind as either an animal or a machine; it is these philosophical visions that have brought upon our secular age the desperate confusion about our human reality. 

No! When human beings appeared on the earth they were there because God had fashioned them in his creative genius. It is not an exaggeration to say that we humans are God’s chef d’œuvre. Professor Brian Cox informs us that the human brain is the most complex thing in the entire universe. I, for one, find it impossible to believe that such a brilliant entity could have come about by chance processes. Rather, when God created the first man and woman, he endowed them with his greatest and most complex gift: our human brain. You have one, and you’re using it right now. It has never seen the light of day, since it is carefully encapsulated within the safe confines of your skull. But is it an absolute wonder. It gives us rationality so we can discuss these very personal issues we are preoccupied with, and it enables us to reason and to grasp truth. No animal has that capacity.

This is the reason why we have such value; we are not mere machines – we are persons. Jesus’ words in Matthew 19 make reference to the first book of the Bible, and he actually quotes with the full approval of his own authority some words from Genesis chapters one and two. In those chapters we have a wonderful key to our human value: “God said, Let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness” (Genesis 1.26). This is part of Jesus’ biblical worldview; in the New Testament his younger brother James wrote, “people… have been made in the likeness of God” (James 3.9). 

We will have to fill this out with its deeper meaning, but at least what is clear is that humankind, man and woman, have glorious value because they partake of the likeness of God. This does not mean that God has a body; Jesus said “God is spirit” – but he is personal as well as infinite. We are not infinite, but we are constituted with the personal faculties – like God’s – of emotion, intellect, will, conscience and the faculty of speech. All these and what issues from them are valorised in this Christian understanding of man created by God in his image. You are not a fluke accident; you are highly valued!

Clive Every-Clayton

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Coming to terms with truth

We live in the age of postmodernism, which is sometimes defined as unbelief towards, or rejection of, “metanarratives”. These are supposedly total explicative systems, whether philosophical, religious or even political like communism. People in the 20th century became disillusioned with the apparently futile search for a global system of Truth. With no-one having come up with the obviously true system, hope was abandoned of ever finding one. The result is that there has been a generalised relativism, with a loss of hope for finding true answers to our deep questions of our existence. There seems to be no absolute Truth; everyone has their personal ideas, but no-one has a total true overarching narrative.

Previously in the Christian West, it was generally thought that there was Truth. Why? Because in the context of Christianity, God knows all Truth and he communicated Truth in his revelation, the Bible. That is still the conviction of millions of people like me, but that metanarrative is no longer the general consensus. The current metanarrative is postmodernism – whose fundamental principle is that no metanarrative is to be believed as true; so in fact it is self-contradictory as it destroys its own basis of belief. It is therefore leading us up the wrong path, and society’s existential despair is the result. With no Truth, there can be no hope. All seems hopeless and meaningless. That’s why our generation should be humbled to reconsider Christianity with its evidence of God’s coming into the world and communicating Truth to us. It has never actually been disproved – only side-lined. 

I have tried to lay the basis for believing that what we hear from Jesus is nothing less than God’s truth – as if the Creator had spoken out of heaven to you. In the Bible we are listening to the real God who is actually there – the God who has come down to earth in Jesus to communicate Truth that He alone knows for sure. In other words, we are not dealing with a “spiritual” ideal, or a philosophical vision that is mere human thinking or a religion of human invention. We said at the start that our only hope of satisfying, authentic answers is if God himself speaks them to us, since humans have proved incapable of getting absolute truth by our own reasoning powers.  I have sought to show evidence for the fact that Jesus is God’s emissary, come into the world from his Father, God, to faithfully relay to us the truth that he had heard from God: if that groundwork is sufficient to lead you to listen to God himself, you will listen, hopefully, with a humble attitude, eager to learn. And you would find the real answers to your profound questions about reality.

If, on the other hand, you are not (yet) convinced of that basis, you can still check it out by reading the Gospels – that is the least you could do to show yourself intellectually serious; or just keep tagging along, reading further the actual answers that Jesus brought. You may read them in a critical frame of mind, not convinced of their truth; and that’s okay, because one cannot believe without assessing the facts, and that extra light may help you to realise that these are indeed divine and universal answers that satisfy the heart and mind.

Clive Every-Clayton

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Divine answers

As we begin to pay attention to God’s answers to our existential search, the reception we give to his answers will depend on our understanding of who Jesus was. We need to be clear: if he was from God, his answers are on a whole different level to anything that human beings can think up.

The reports we have of Jesus’ life refute any suggestion that he was mentally unbalanced or a blatant and deceitful imposter. Such an assessment goes against the evidence of Jesus’ unique identity as a man of exemplary holiness, whose moral teaching was profoundly wise, whose psychology is the best ever conceived, and whose influence on history has been highly beneficial. All this, quite apart from his numerous miracles, his profound love that led him to give his life for our salvation, and his totally unique resurrection from the dead.

If therefore he was a unique manifestation of God himself, then his answers are no mere human philosophical opinions. We are led to believe that he did bring us answers from heaven. That means his answers are actually absolute truth coming from the Highest Authority in the universe. This brings out the seriousness of what we are doing here: if it is true, it is of the utmost importance. Indeed, there are logical consequences if that is the case: we are faced with the supreme authority in the universe telling us how it is. Our Maker had the answers all along; if he has told them to us, we should not ignore them, but receive them gladly.

Having studied all this carefully for many years, this is my position. I take it as given, that we are blessed with God’s revealed truth. This is the only way for authentic hope for answers. 

Now this may be considered my assumption – for I have said that all thinking is based on assumptions. But this assumption – the foundation on which we build – is a conclusion based on the historic incarnation of him whom we have come to believe can be none other than God’s divine messenger. If this sounds like circular reasoning, consider theologian and philosopher Cornelius Van Til’s assertion that “all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning”. That’s why the historic appearance on earth of God’s incarnate Son is so foundational; it is the unique basis on which we can hope to build absolute Truth. God alone knows and can speak absolute Truth.

Remember how God’s voice came from heaven saying, “Listen to Jesus”? (Matthew 17.5) I invite you to take an open-minded stance, just to listen, and see what you think. As you consider in more detail what answers God gave through Jesus to our deep existential questions, it is for you to decide whether or not they have the mark of Truth – whether you will believe in Jesus or not. Knowledge of the facts is indispensable as a foundation of valid faith.

I will seek to show that God’s truth and guidelines for living indicate the true “good life” and human flourishing that our Creator wills for us. As I hope ultimately to show, God is loving and compassionate and his truth will lead us on to consider how he offers us true life, “eternal life” or “abundant life” as Jesus called it (John 10.10, 27-28). Jesus not only brings the truth of God that answers our questions; he also lovingly offers life that truly satisfies the deep hunger of our hearts.

Clive Every-Clayton

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Resurrection appearances

Christianity would never have taken off without Christ’s resurrection. The apostles witnessed the risen Christ and it transformed them into fearless proclaimers of their Lord and Saviour, died and risen to bring us salvation. Their transformation is enough to show it really happened. 

Here is the evidence, the main facts as they are recorded in the Gospels:

  • The roman centurions ensured Jesus was dead on the cross, by piercing his side with a spear.
  • His corpse was laid in an unused sepulchre, dug out of the rock, and a heavy stone was rolled over the entrance and sealed by the roman soldiers who guarded it to make sure the disciples would not come and steal the body and claim he was risen. (The Jewish leaders had taken note that Jesus had taught that he would rise after three days).  
  • There was an earthquake, and the guards fainted, and then fled in fear.
  • Mary Magdalene came to embalm the corpse and saw the tomb was open, and the stone had been rolled away.
  • She went and told Peter who ran with John to the tomb.
  • Peter and John saw the tomb was empty, and went away.
  • Mary stayed, and saw Jesus who spoke with her and told her “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God” (John 20.17).
  • The same evening, when the disciples were behind locked doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus came into their midst and showed them the wounds of his crucifixion and the spear-wound in his side. He spoke to them and asked “have you anything here to eat?” (Luke24.41) so that, as he ate the fish they gave him, they could see he was not a ghost. He also said to them: “As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you” (John 20.21). 
  • A week later he came there again, showing himself in the same way, particularly to Thomas, one of the eleven faithful disciples who had been absent the time before. “Put your finger here, and see my hands,” said Jesus to him, “and put out your hand and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe” (John 20.26-27). 

More appearances of the risen Jesus are recorded, but the most significant is the last just mentioned, for Thomas had doubted the report of Jesus’ resurrection. When he saw the risen Christ, he answered Jesus in an expostulation of faith: “My Lord and my God!” Jesus’ response to that was by no means to rebuke Thomas for blasphemous exaggeration. Rather, he says, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20.28 NIV). This was his way of saying, “Happily, you have finally got it, Thomas! That is indeed who I am – both Lord and God”.

Numbers of unbelievers down the centuries have sought to discredit Jesus’ resurrection, and several, checking it out, have changed their opinion, writing books to explain how the evidence led them to conclude that Jesus was indeed the divine Son of God. If we, too, come to that conclusion, we have the basis of real hope for answers that come from the most authentic of sources, God himself.

This leads us to listen with more confidence to the truths Jesus brought which can enlighten us as we face our deep existential predicament as human beings.

We will examine these life-giving teachings in blog posts to come.

Clive Every-Clayton

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