
The Crocus Flower and the Empty Tomb - Gospel of Matthew Part 35
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Story of the New Human
The story is utterly unique in ancient literature. And there's just it its own category. It comes out of the story, the jewish story, the story of the bible. The hope was not that god would recreate his own people as new kinds of humans. This is raising up resurrection,. not to some tual state, but to like an act, like a new human living in a redeemed world which has been purified and cleaned and made new. A crocus flower bloomed at the end of winter - this first foretaste of the new creation bursts out of out of the tomb. Nobody had gories for this. They just experienced a version of the world that is like what
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