Source: Huff Post, by Brandon Ambrosino.

Regardless of what actually happened to Jesus’ body on Easter morning, the important point of the resurrection story is that God is the one who renews all things.”

As I walked to the A train, I started thinking about my priest’s closing statement to his homily, which was titled “A Different Way of Looking at the Resurrection.” His message invited us to think about the resurrection stories as metaphors about enlightenment.

A risen Jesus is a bit of a stretch, I thought to myself. The Easter story is so much less embarrassing if we can focus only on its metaphorical significance.

I tried to put aside the issue of the resurrection as history, choosing instead to think about the resurrection as meaning. In other words, was the point of the resurrection story the actual resurrection, or the meaningof the resurrection?

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