So it's Easter Eve. Tomorrow will be only the second time I've gone to Easter services in a church. I once went to a Catholic Easter Service with my best friend, but otherwise I've gone to meeting or not gone at all.
I've been trying to understand what I can about Jesus and accept what I can. After a lot of struggling, I've accepted that faiths outside my cultural tradition aren't right for me. I can conceptualize Jesus as fully human. And with that knowledge I can understand how he allowed himself to be taken and crucified. It almost seems as if it is something a teenager would do. The willful disregard that one's very life is at stake. Something will save me at the end.
It's a human fault- to conceptualize of a God that will interfere in day to day lives and that will change the world.
The second part is what I have trouble with. I accept that he is as divine as I am divine and most others are as well. Is he fully divine, more divine, separate from us, from the people living then? I don't know. He was certainly a better healer than I was, although I consider my family values better (leave your mother and father and follow me? I think not.)
Did he rise from the dead? No, he did not. But I know, after I've had a major loss, how I keep seeing that person across a crowded street or in every store window. Could the same thing have happened to the disciples? Certainly.
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I'm a 27 year old RN/MSN student in a direct entry school here on the East Coast. Currently job hunting, future planning and surviving.
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- I'm a new RN, with a job, getting my MSN. Right now I am "free," sans job, sans children, and with my sweet cat Shadow. Can't wait until I have all three and a place of my own. I've been contemplating foster care and hope that that will turn out to be part of my future as well. Feel free to comment!
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There are Christian's, including Christian theologians who believe that the resurrection was/is something more metaphorical.
Have you ever watched a Christ-themed movie? You almost certainly have and may not have noticed it. Spit Fire Grill; The Iron Giant; Phenomenon; Pay It Forward; The Green Mile. There is a Christ figure who is either transformed or enters the community. The presence of the Christ figure changed the community. The Christ figure then dies, usually in an act of saving an innocent. The community is brought together over the death and shared loss.
And then there is always a resurrection. We learn in one way or another that the Christ figure is not really dead. The Christ figure continues to live in the community.
There are many ways to understand what the resurrection means, what "Christ is Risen!" means.
I have watched Christ themed movies, although none of the ones you have mentioned. It is a very comforting feeling to be discovering a Christian community in which the resurrection is metaphorical. Most of my friends who have been Christian have believed or been taught a physical resurrection.
I, like many, have been scarred by what I'll call Christian extremists. For a good sampling of them, check out the Christianexodus.org website. This has been a wonderful reminder that most Christians don't fall into hte extremist category, although most Chistian denominations also don't pass my openness test (actively and openly glbt friendly, actively feminist, actively socially aware and actively religious (God must be the center of the church)).
My hope is that the Church I go to will have a UCC 101 class or something similar so I can learn more about it. It's wonderful to feel that a path that I thought was not possible, is.
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