Jesus said in John 14:6: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by me”.
Many read this verse through the lens of morals and ethics. That “the Way” is what Christ taught us about how to get in favor with God. That “the Truth” is what Christ says about God, and about Him being the Son of God. That “the Life” is about doing things with good intentions, integrity, and superior virtues in the model of Christ.
Easter seems to me to offer a perspective beyond morals and ethics.
It celebrates the fact that because of Christ, there could be life beyond physical death. That it’s a life that would no longer die, and which is beyond the restraints and confines of physical existence. That it’s a life that is free from the attributes of sinfulness. And that it’s a life that is spiritual, and allows us to be in the everlasting embrace of God, who is without sin, and exists beyond the physical.
For indeed, how could a God who is without sin, who condemns sin, and who is spirit, embrace one riddled with sin, and who does not exist in the realm of the spirit?
In a word, Easter shows us “God’s Way” for restoring us back into fellowship with God. The God who walked the Garden of Eden.
And a fellowship so pure and intimate before we were blighted with the sin nature of disobedience to God.
Easter shows us that the only Way for us sinners to get back into fellowship with a sinless and sin-detesting God is by believing that the resurrection is real — as how Christ showed it to be real.
We believe in all moral and ethical teachings of Christ like to be good, to be kind to one another, and to love one another.
But in Easter, we believe in the much larger message, which is Jesus Himself.
That only in Jesus is the sure resurrection into eternal life; that Jesus is the only Way to go beyond physical death; that Jesus is the only Way to a life no longer blighted by sin; that only in the resurrected Jesus the Christ is our hope for being restored back into Eden-like fellowship with God.
This, we believe: That in the resurrected Christ is the only Way back to eternal fellowship with God, and it’s a Truth that, to the extent we believe it and make it to flow deeply and widely in our stream of daily consciousness, it would change our Life.
A life that is beyond merely physical, moral, and ethical. A life of a “new creature” in God.
Others may have their own beliefs about God.
I choose to believe in the God of Easter.
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