Easter Reading
Yes, I know it’s after Easter, but Ravi Zacharias’s website has some good stuff:
The depravity of man is at once the most unpopular of the Christian doctrines and the most empirically verifiable. We have within us a basic sense of our desperate condition. We are aware, or often reminded, that we not quite what we were intended to be. Something went wrong, something we yearn to see made right, but somehow find ourselves incapable of restoring.
In the book The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, Lesslie Newbigin observes, “It is obvious that the story of the empty tomb cannot be fitted into our contemporary worldview, or indeed into any worldview except one of which it is the starting point.” You can’t have Buddha and an empty tomb; you can’t have Western Imperialism and an empty tomb; you can’t have an innocuous Jesus and an empty tomb. Many have tried to fit these things together as a puzzle, but the power of the empty tomb repels anything that competes with it.