Comments on: Were you there? Reflections on Good Friday

By: Fabrizio

Fabrizio — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:44:40 +0000

Your 2nd question is of difficult answer. Saturday was a very holly day for Jews and the gospels didn’t say anything about this day. In the Old Testament, prophecies such as Amos 8:8-13 predicted for THAT DAY earth tremors, darkness and crying instead of chants. This make us think that such Saturday was an extremely hard day for the disciples, as it’d be if you breaks the day finding your family entirely destroyed. When such circumstances arrived, they had Jesus to comfort themselves, but no more. And it was the day before their greatest party, the day God freed them from Egypt! It’d be a terrible day if on that day you’d find yourself without God.

By: Fabrizio

Fabrizio — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:52:49 +0000

Here is a temptative answer to your 1st question. In 1Co 2:14, the Gods words are declared as being crazyness to someone doesn’t have faith. In Gal 3:23 Paul says that the people were blind to the Christian faith before it was given by Jesus. I can imagine that Christian faith includes all that was said by Jesus himself, so it leads to the possibility that, by that time, people were unable to understand Jesus words without really having Christian faith. Perhaps the apostoles were really lacking a true faith, yet, so that they could not understand what Jesus said. And then, I have to remember that all the gospels were writen only too many years after the events they narrated. Perhaps not until they could really understand…

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:11:24 +0000

That is well put, and thank you i am going to follow the link to read and ponder the questions. I really like the website. The question arose and why i wound up here, i was searching for the answer:
“will we remember this earth and our lives when we go to heaven?” A friend asked me, and i told him we have a loving God so i do believe we will recognize eachother, but i’m not sure if we’ll remember our lives here on earth, do you know?

Sister in Christ,
Kelly
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