KNOWING THE CHRIST I

Stephen Freeman, Orthodox priest wrote:

“I believe that the death and resurrection of Christ are utterly universal in their reality. They are not isolated events, significant only within the Christian belief system. I believe they are the singular moments within space and time (and outside space and time) that reveal the truth of all things, of all people, and of the heart and nature of the God who created all things and sustains them. I believe this is true whether I or anyone else believes it. The death and resurrection of Christ are the most fundamental and foundational facts of reality.
I believe that Christians make a serious mistake when we begin to speak first about God rather than first about Christ and His death on the Cross and resurrection from the dead. It is a mistake because it presumes, we know something about God that is somehow “prior” to those events. We do not, or, if we think we do, we are mistaken. The death and resurrection of Christ are the alpha and the omega of God’s self-revelation to the world. Nothing in all of creation is extraneous or irrelevant to those events.”

I certainly agree with this opinion from Freeman. Once we see God as Father, and Jesus as Son, we start to see by the power of the Holy Spirit the revealed Christ. We can’t see it clearly except through the Cross and the Resurrection.

“I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.” Jesus