Resurrection Sunday
April 12th, 2020 by G.
Easter.
I am the Resurrection and the Life.
The Strange Doctrine of the Double Atonement (in other words, why both Gethsemane and the Cross?)
Unexpected Lessons in Theology from Dead Economists
the Royal Largesse Theory of the Atonement
The Meaningful Choice Theory of the Atonement
My favorite– Easter in Picture and Words
This is why we can never lose hope in our circumstances. God doesn’t play fair. When the devil has jumped His last checker He places a queen and multiple rooks on the board.
From Francis Berger, Escaping Raskolnikov’s Delirious Lenten Dream. Recommended by Bruce Charlton.
Eric
April 12, 2020
That comment about putting the queen and rooks on a checker board reminds me of something I heard at a BYU devotional talk back in the day:
We also know the final score for the history of this world and for the life of the righteous. The Lord and his people will triumph. It is true that the sorrows of this world and the strength of Satan’s forces will win a number of the skirmishes. I am reminded of a wonderful cartoon that appeared in the New Yorker magazine many years ago. It depicts on a baseball scoreboard the battle between the optimists and pessimists. Each inning the pessimists are ahead, sometimes by rather large scores. But at the end of the game, the score reads, “Optimists 1, Pessimists 0.” So it is with the history of this world. Satan and his followers, as well as the natural circumstances of mortal life, will inflict many bruises and win many battles. But God, who knows the end from the beginning, has promised that those who serve him will receive the fullness of his blessings. When we realize that righteous living puts us on the winning side, we can learn to trust him during trying times.
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/todd-a-britsch/trusting-god-things-go-wrong/