Evening: Psalm 104; Mark 12:18-27
Belief in resurrection was popular up to 200 years before Jesus, in revolutionary movements whose martyrs would enjoy a glorious future when God remakes the world. Conservative Sadducees of Jesus’s time opposed resurrection, because it might encourage revolutionary thinking. Modern folk-theology thinks of resurrection as an ethereal, disembodied, spiritual existence. But Christians are clear … Resurrection is God remaking the world – how and when one can only guess. To Christians our physical existence is good, to be savoured and enjoyed to the full. So resurrection is recognizably physical, but different than what we know now.
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