Jesus was finally reaching the end of his life! He can see the end in site now that he is in
He is at the temple, most likely teaching for the last time! Perhaps people were asking different questions like, “Is God punishing my harvest because of something I did”? “Will the
They perhaps knew that Proverbs 2 encouraged people to seek out insight and understanding, so that they may know the fear and awesome glory of God. Questioning in life is legitimate and was encouraged in the faith journey of
Of all the questions he is asked about, he gets one on marriage in the resurrection. If they were asking the question, it must have been a legitimate question others were asking. The religious leaders were trying to trip Jesus up with this question. The religious leaders had a law on the books that answered the question about the creation of life after a husband died. This law was designed to provide a way back into the fabric of family structure for young women left widowed prior to having children. Rather than thrusting them back into the marriage market, through which they might never successfully remarry and thus become more likely to fall into poverty, levirate marriage sought to insure them a place in their new in-laws' family by making them secondary wives to another man in the family, usually their dead husbands' brother. It was a way of providing security for them.”[i] Children also then grew the population and the parents would live on through their kids.
Jesus answers the question, saying that it’s good that people give and take in marriage. It’s important to answer their question. You never know what kind of questions you might get in the faith journey. Like what is the shortest Bible verse? “Jesus wept” is usually the answer but Luke 20:30 actually ties that verse because the greek reads “Jesus, he weeps” and Luke 20:30 reads, “then the second”. Important questions![ii]
Jesus answered the question! But he was expressing concern not about death but about life! They are asking him to explain a heavenly marriage while God is concerned about the union of life in the midst of death. Remember, the wedding vows say unto death parts us and not for all eternity. We know that there are good reasons to ask questions about life in the midst of death!
There are some very good reasons to question in order to experience a richer life. Questioning leads people into a deeper understanding; to find out more; we should fear questioning because then; don’t be afraid of the answer. What if you don’t question? Maybe you don’t want any change in your life or you don’t want to know the answer! Learning to question is the goal of educators as we learn; point of learning in Christian faith should be a deeper obedience. Socrates stated, "The unexamined life is not worth living." (Apology 38a)
Sometimes we are told never to question authority. Sometimes questioning makes others feel uncomfortable because they don’t have the answers. What would it be like to never question? Do we have to get the answers to our questions? In life, there is no such thing as a dumb question – reveals your ignorance.
I discovered Friday at the wedding reception of a member about the “sting theory”. The atom is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons; in that are quarks and inside that are strings. String Theory is one that explains subatomic particles and that the strings are under the atom; under the quarks and hold life and gravitational connections with all things. The more or closer things are the more strings.[iii]
As www.superstringtheory.com states, “In string theory, as in guitar playing, the string must be stretched under tension in order to become excited. However, the strings in string theory are floating in space and time; they aren't tied down to a guitar. Nonetheless, they have tension.” In essence, the theory suggests that there is a connection between all living things.
The Good news is that Jesus demonstrated that death is not the final string. God takes all these strings of sound and creates a string of musical vibrations in the chorus of life. Even when the strings of life are cut, God will hold them together forever and ever, forever and ever…
Let us pray! Gracious God, you hold all things together. We are so marvelously made and created
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