Faith based in . . . . . .

      So Jesus is dead. To this the Scripture passages today attest. It is in somewhat detail that they speak of Jesus rising, 'giving proofs' , working (more) miracles, teaching and advising the faithful after he has risen.  Perhaps setting a more defined course to The Way which was the truths that his very life conveyed.  What do we base our faith on?

      One could go on about his social activism, his all embracing, healing love. How about how much he railed against the religious elite and their arrogant piety? Then too there is the mentioning of his mother and brothers, as in sibs. Which are tenets of our faith in Jesus? Which proofs do you need and what snippet of scripture do you take and run with? Which casual line of scripture do you base a whole philosophy on or twist until nearly broken to make the foundation of your belief?  It find it interesting that even after Jesus has died and risen, He has returned having to offer more proofs. Isn't dying and rising enough? Isn't His life itself, enough?

       The question is still out there though, what do you base your faith in?  I believe in a man, a brother, also God, who showed us by his living how we should act. How we should love , and that L-O-V-E is the key. Love is the key to living, love is the key to interpretation of scripture and love is more important than any tenet or rule or rubric we can create. Even if it is in His name.

      My faith is based on ( in ) . . . . . . .

      

Acts 1:1-14

In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over the course of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. ‘This’, he said, ‘is what you have heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.’

 So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?’ He replied, ‘It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. While he was going and they were gazing up towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’

 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of^* James. All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers.