[Rembrandt's 1648 'The Supper at Emmaus']N. T. Wright on the intercanonical connection between Gen 3:7 ('and their eyes were opened, and they knew') and Luke 24:31 ('and their eyes were opened, and they knew [him]')--both of which describe two people who have just eaten.
Luke, echoing that story, describes the first meal of the new creation. . . . [T]he long curse had been broken. Death itself has been defeated. God's new creation, brimming with life and joy and new possibility, has burst in upon the world of decay and sorrow.
Jesus himself, risen from the dead, is the beginning and the sign of this new world. He isn't just alive again in the same way that Jairus's daughter, or the widow's son at Nain, were. They, poor things, would have to face death again in due course. He has, it seems, gone through death and out the other side into a new world, a world of new and deathless creation.
--Tom Wright, Luke for Everyone (SPCK 2001), 296
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Hi, I am from Australia.
Of course that quote from Wright is utter nonsense (as is everything that he writes. He (Wright) was not there to witness the "event" that he pretends to describe. And besides which it never happened.
That having been said please find a radically different understanding of the life and teaching of Saint Jesus of Galilee.
www.beezone.com/up/fogottenesotericismjesus.html
www.dabase.org/proofch6.htm#idol
And an Illuminated Understanding of death
www.adidam.org/death_and_dying/index.html
www.easydeathbook.com
Sorry bud, gotta go with Prov 26:4 on this one.
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