Posts Tagged: New Creation

The Resurrection Changes Everything!

Where in the Bible is Resurrection

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The Key to Understanding the Bible “And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb” Luke 24:2 The stone rolled away from the tomb opened up an entirely new world. A brave new world! The evangelist Luke captures this new reality by telling us that Jesus, whose resurrection from death had opened the tomb, afterward opened the eyes of the Emmaus disciples to understand the… Read more »

Adam and the First Garden

Where in the Bible is Resurrection

Recalling Adam and the first garden, with its two trees of death and life in the midst (Gen 2:9), the evangelist poetically places Jesus’ cross in the midst (John 19:18) of his account of the Garden of Gethsemane (John 18:1) and the Garden Tomb (John 19:41). It is upon the cross, then, that John presents Jesus as the new Adam, whose own tree of cursing… Read more »