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Eternal life as immortality is the wrong idea. There’s way more to it. It is divine life, the life of eternity, God’s life- offered voluntarily to humans for their consumption, wholeness, and flourishing.
What’s the alternative? And why is it so personal?
What makes our take so enticing that we would rather choose the “school of hard knocks” than to listen; to do things our way than to yield?
Taking a closer look at the biblical motif of humans on mountains near trees with surprisingly similar life-altering choices to make. This motif runs like a thread through the biblical story.
The motif of the God and people on mountain near a tree continues even in the Palm Sunday story!
Any student of history can see the multiple comparisons that can be drawn between the tree of the crucified Christ and the lynching tree of innocent black bodies from the 18th century and beyond. What can we learn about our faith and about Christ from people who lived the atrocity we can only contemplate on a day like Good Friday?
The resurrection is proof that change is possible, that humans are capable of becoming sources of life and blessing to the world around them.