WOF 227: The Meaning of Easter

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Alleluia! We've just entered into the joyous season of Easter, where we celebrate the Lord's Resurrection, but what does it mean to say that Jesus is risen from the dead? That's what Bishop Barron answers in today's episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vat, the content director at Word on Fire.
0:10.4	Happy Easter. We've just entered into this most joyous season of the year.
0:15.9	And while Bishop Aaron is not with us, we wanted to share a clip from a past video he made on
0:21.2	the true meaning of Easter. What does it mean to say that Jesus is risen from the dead? Well,
0:27.7	that's the question Bishop answers in this short clip. So we hope you enjoy it and then rest
0:32.3	assured that Bishop Aaron will be with us back in studio next week for a new discussion for the
0:37.8	Word on Fire show. Thanks.
0:45.1	Well, I want to talk about Easter today and the trouble of Easter is we tend to don't
0:50.1	mesticate it and that's the problem with a lot of the interpretations of religion today, especially
0:55.4	Christianity. We shouldn't domesticate Easter. Easter is an explosive feast and explosive reality.
1:03.7	Let me get at it this way. Go back to Jesus' time. So for century Judaism, there were lots of views
1:10.0	about what happened to people when they died. So for example, there were many Jews relying on a
1:15.9	venerable tradition that would say the dead are just dead. You die and that's it. You go to the ground.
1:22.7	Others said that the dead go down to shadowy shale, like a sort of underworld.
1:28.8	Others said that the souls of the just are in the hand of God. It's a bit like a Hellenistic or
1:36.0	Greek view that soul escapes from the body. Still others would hold that the righteous dead at the
1:42.3	end of time would rise together. Think of Martha in the Lazarus story when she's, oh no, I know he
1:49.0	will rise with the resurrection of the just. That's what she's talking about. So there's all kinds
1:53.9	of views about what happened. Here's the point about Easter. None of those familiar frameworks of
2:01.2	understanding is used by any of the gospel writers. These are all Jews or people very much under
2:07.0	the influence of Judaism and they don't use any of those frameworks when talking about what happened
2:12.4	after the death of Jesus. They don't say, oh he went down to shadowy shale. They don't say, oh his soul
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