Just as the first creation of something out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) seems impossible to the human mind, so any notion of life after death seems to demand the same huge leap of faith. Grace’s foundational definition could be “something coming from nothing,” and the human mind just does not know how to process that. Just as it does not like grace, it does not like resurrection. It is the same resistance. Resurrection, like most gifts of goodness, is also a creatio ex nihilo, which is precisely God’s core job description: God is the one “who gives life to the dead and calls into existence
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