Title: Resurrection is not a homework issue
Text/ Acts 10:39-41, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8
1. Introduction
It's Easter Sunday morning in 2011. Christianity is said to be based on the resurrection of Jesus. Then, preaching on the resurrection should be the mainstream in the church pulpit, but if you look at the reality of the church pulpit, the sermon on the resurrection is a sermon on Easter Sunday, with colorful decorations, concerts, children's dances, etc. As a result, it is just being performed like a memorial service.
Why does this happen? The reason is that many preachers say that the resurrection is not an event to personally and existentially experience the ontological mystery of God personally (numinous experience) and participate with joy, but rather a task to be solved rationally by presenting scientific-theoretical evidence. because you think
It is a natural conclusion that we have no choice but to avoid preaching the resurrection because it is difficult and difficult and difficult to explain what cannot be explained. In this sense, “Be silent about what cannot be said!” Wittgenstein's proposition is correct. References: Yong-seop Jeong, What is a Sermon, Seong-sa Hong.
2. The resurrection event is not a task to be solved, but an ontological mystery to be enjoyed by participating in it. It was from the time of Jesus' resurrection that people thought of the resurrection of Jesus as a task to be solved (Matthew 28:11-15). This is because human existence consciousness that “all life is mortal (Sein zum Tode)” could not believe in resurrection as a rational (reason).
To this day, many people have proposed numerous theoretical hypotheses about the resurrection of Jesus that can be understood by human reason. These are the corpse theft theory, re-burial theory, housekeeping theory, surrogate execution theory, legend theory, fantasy theory, myth theory, and spiritual resurrection theory. All of these attempts are, in the end, nothing more than a theory-異論 (theory) that either rejects the Bible or ignores the traditional Christian doctrine.
Regarding all these theories, Dibelius said, “Therefore, within a short period of time, something must have happened that not only changed the minds of the disciples, but also gave them new vitality to establish the first church. Exactly "what (etwas)!" This is the historical core of resurrection faith.” Said. However, "what (etwas)" can never be fully explained in words. Words simply “act as a finger pointing to the moon. See also: Ho-ik Huh, Jesus Christ 2, Dong-yeon, pp. 231-334.
Text: We are witnesses in all that he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, who put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him to life on the third day and revealed it, not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen beforehand, the resurrection from the dead. Afterwards, he did it to us who ate with him (Acts 10:39-41). 1 Corinthians 15:3-8.
first. Jesus did not resurrect Himself, but God resurrected Him. As I said last week, Jesus called the greatest commandment in God's law, 敬天愛人 (Love of God - Love of God + Love of Man), and because he lived according to that word, he was captured by the powers of the devil and Satan who ignores the lover of Heaven and He crossed the cross. died running on it. That Jesus was raised from the dead by God. (God raised him from the dead on the third day). See also: Fountain of the Word, Vol. 5, No. 290.
What does it mean? It is the resurrection event that God proved that the satanic-devil life of ignoring the lover of light heaven was wrong and the life of Jesus who lived the life of the lover of light heaven was right.
second. The resurrection of Jesus is not a scientific-objective fact, but an ontological and mysterious event of God revealed only to the elect (God caused him to be seen). In the text, to be seen--appeared does not mean to be objectively-scientifically exhibited, but to be revealed by God's sovereignty to a specific person (refer to the New Testament: New Testament, Jordan Publishing House, p. 801).
What does it mean? Why did the resurrected Jesus not appear to the high priest Caiaphas - Pilate, the governor of Judea? No, didn't he appear on top of the temple so that many could see it? The resurrection event is not an objective-scientific event, but an ontologically mysterious event of God. See also: Fountain of the Word, Volume 2, No. 104.
third. The resurrection event of Jesus is a cosmic-eschatological revelation event that foreshadows the great judgment of this world created by God and the arrival of a new heaven and a new earth (preoccupation with Moltmann's theological concept). It is an event that awakens the eschatological realization of each individual who believes and receives.
What does it mean? Through the resurrection event, the world and each person participate in the ontological mystery of God, so that “a life that is changed from a life that imitates this generation, and a life that discerns what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God (Romans 12:1- 2)”, so that the Father's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That is, we are building the kingdom of God on this earth through the love of God + the love of people.