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 ** Important Events ... **
-The death and resurrection is, from a Christian point of view, the most important event of world history. The death of Jesus is important, since from the beginning of human history it was clear that freedom, independence, ethics and holiness are difficult topics for humans. In the bible, the foundation of death is ethical. God is life, and humans are intended for eternal life. But eternal life without holidness should not be. Everythink in creation is put under the rule of death. This is our standard and daily experience. We all die! Humans die, animals die, plants die. We experience our universe as a large space which had a beginning, and which will
+The death and resurrection is, from a Christian point of view, the most important event of world history. The death of Jesus is important, since from the beginning of human history it was clear that freedom, independence, ethics and holiness are difficult topics for humans. In the bible, the foundation of death is understood in its ethical perspective. God is life, and humans are intended for eternal life. But eternal life without holidness should not be. Everythink in creation is put under the rule of death. This is our standard and daily experience. We all die! Humans die, animals die, plants die.
+The claim is that here something really special happened. Jesus did not just get healed. He rose into a different type of life. His body is called resurrection body. He is the first of a new creation. But he bodily rose, he met his disciples, he even talked to them and explained the logic and narrative of his death and resurrection.
+You might say that this is strange. It is! But it is in no way stranger than what physicists learn about the atomic nature of our creation, or about the structure of space and time. It is not stranger than what biologiest and chemists learn about life, mind, emotions and intelligence. We live in an exciting world, which with the resurrection and pentacost learns about far reaching events, with God opening a new door and with the holy spirit to be available to all who believe.
 (Roland Potthast)