Semper Theologia

 "Oh death, where is your sting? Oh death, where is your victory?" - 1 Corinthians 15:55  Oh what glorious news that Jesus is alive! The Lamb who was slain for the sins of God's people has conquered death! Do you know what this means? Because we are united to Christ in death we are sure to be risen up on the last day! We too shall see resurrection in the end! Death has no sting for the Christian. Paul writes in his first letter to the Corinthians: "Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?   But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.   And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.   We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.   For if the dead are not raised, not...

     Why is it "Good Friday?" A day marked with the death of the innocent and we call it good. How can this be? Humiliated, beaten, and crucified, Jesus breathed His last. What makes such horror so good? The answer is atonement, reconciliation, and restoration. To truly understand why Good Friday is a Good Friday, we need to understand man's natural condition and what Jesus accomplishes. Who is man? When Adam sinned in the garden, he did more than just mess up his relationship with God. Being mankind's representative, he messed up mankind's relationship with God. We see this not only in his name, Adam sounding like the Hebrew word for, "man," but also explained in Scripture by Paul. Sin spread to all mankind through one man (Adam) and therefore death spread to all man as well (Romans 5:12-14) and the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). As R.C. Sproul once put it, "We are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners" This is August...