Over the past few years, that has started to change. Not that I plan to go to any special services, because I don't. What has changed is my viewpoint of Easter itself. This different viewpoint is one that stays with me throughout the year. This viewpoint is what Easter is all about.
My beliefs about what happened that day has not changed, but my thoughts about why has. You see, I no longer believe in a angry God who is looking to strike everyone down and used Good Friday just to take it out on His only begotten Son, who let Himself get tortured to death so we would not have too.
The why of Easter is that God so loved us that He caused these events to happened so that we could be cured from our sin problem that has separated us from God since the Garden, and has kept us separated just as a deadly disease will separate us from our love ones here on Earth. Not that our "sin" problem would affect God, but that His holiness would destroy us.
The physical healing's that Jesus performed were a picture of what his death and resurrection would/will accomplish. His death & resurrection heals all of the past scares and deformities caused by "sin" and transform us into new creatures as His Spirit would unite with our spirit/soul.
Since God is love, then His Spirit will fill us with a love like we have never known before. As His love fills us, it will flow out of us to others. As it flows out from us, people will know that we are followers of God by the way that we love.
To me, this is the Good news. God loved us and we can now have that same relationship with God The Father that Jesus had while He lived as a human among us. And when death comes to us,we will find ourselves with a God who seeks to comfort us like we would a hurt child or other loved one, but even more so.
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