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| Essential 100 -- Where did he go? | | Date Created: Apr 14, 2005, 07:04 AM |
69 — Thursday April 14 — John 20, 21
There are so many things that baffle me about the period during which the resurrected Jesus hung around down here before ascending to the Father. Obviously, the resurrection body is one. Did it look like Jesus? The Emmaus story and even the John 21 story about the cooked breakfast imply that you wouldn't necessarily recognize him... strange. And then there's the whole walking into locked rooms thing. The old view is that he could dematerialize and re-materialize on the other side. CS Lewis's writings suggest the alternative possibility that rather the resurrection body is so solid that the mere earthly solidity of walls is by contrast insubstantial. It's not that he's ghostly, it's that our reality is, by comparison. A third possibility is that resurrection bodies are multi-dimensional and for a five- or ten- or 27-dimensional being, a closed three-dimensional cube like a locked room is no more impossible to see inside that a square is for us 3-D folks.
But it's something more mundane I'm worrying about this morning. Jesus appeared to the disciples when Thomas wasn't there. Then the text tells us he appeared to them again a week later (20:36). When he met the Emmaus crew in Luke 24, he doesn't stay with them. In chapter 21, when they're out fishing in Galilee and Jesus is there, it's clear that he hasn't travelled with them? All this appears very unlike how Jesus and disciples got on before his death. With only 40 days until the Ascension, you'd think he'd be cramming in the teaching time with those who were about to become the first church. Where does the resurrected Jesus go, what does he do when he's not with the disciples? Pardon the expression, but, what other fish does he have to fry that keep him from doing more than popping in on the disciples from time to time? |
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