mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) (09/19/86)
Vernon Lee writes: >Why does the resurrection imply god is worth worshipping? Someday science >may be able to bring people back from the dead, and I won't worship the >doctors. Power does not imply benevolence. If Christians worship because >Jesus was resurrected, they are simply bowing down to the most powerful >being(s). Big deal! The challenge is to defy power - to paraphrase a >famous Christian: I will not go to heaven while one other goes to hell! I don't see any moral imperative to defy power, not from anywhere. And the point of the ressurection is that it is a fundamental part of the picture in which Jesus is GOd the Son-- presumably God is already worthy of worship (anyone starting up a maltheism discussion off of THIS article shall be beset upon by Mangoe the Municipal!), but whether Jesus is God-- this is a more interesting question, and one to which the ressurection is part of the answer. C. Wingate