So with all the “It’s really Ostara” history-ignoring nonsense, it’s really tempting to write a snarky April Fool’s post. Like, don’t get me wrong, cursory history and linguistics tells us that Easter is what we say it is. But maybe their fiction makes sense? 1/?
We are more and more living in a post-Christian society, one in which self-proclaimed Christians don’t even know their history and heritage. Cultural religious literacy is in constant decline.
We are no longer Christendom, but a community of believers living among Gentiles. 2/?
We are no longer Christendom, but a community of believers living among Gentiles. 2/?
And on April Fool’s we do well to remember that what we proclaim is foolishness to the Gentiles. For who would believe what we have heard? It is hard enough to die for a good man, but this Great Teacher died for us while we were still in bondage to sin. 3/?
The message of the Cross is so unbelievable that takes the witness of the Martyrs to proclaim (redundant, don’t @ me). It takes fools who say in the sense of perfectly reasonable theories about the evolution of natural religions and power structures that this 1 is different. 4/?
It takes fools who say that the deaf hear, the blind see, the lame walk, and that we have been set free, not by the strength of princes but by the weakness of God. We profess the foolishness of God, which is wiser than the wisdom of man. 5/6
We are the fools, and no “proofs” can tell anyone otherwise. You think this Easter/Ostara❓is what’s really at stake... 🤷♂️ Because what does it profit a man to gain the argument, but lose his brother’s soul? Introduce them to Him, then they can be fools with us. 6/6
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