拿走了復活你就拆毀了基督教TakeAway the Resurrection and You Take Away Christianity
作者: R.C. Sproul 譯者: 改革宗翻譯社
這是人類歷史的分水嶺，在這裏，人類的愁苦化為輝煌。在這裏，初代教會傳講的福音信息（kerygma) 隨著一聲呼喊誕生：「祂復活了」。我們可以將這一事件視為一個象徵，一個可愛的關於希望的故事。我們可以將之降低為一種道德主義，作出一個傳道人如此總結的宣稱：「復活的意義在於我們可以用辯證的勇氣面對每一天的黎明。」
然而，新約宣告的復活是一個清醒的歷史事實。早期基督徒對辯證符號沒什麼興趣，只對斬釘截鐵的事實有興趣。真正的基督教與時空中的耶穌復活共存亡。基督徒這個稱號飽受苦難，從成千種考驗的重擔到無數種不同定義。一本詞典將基督徒定義為一個文明人，一個可以不相信復活就做個文明人，但按照聖經這個人絕對做不了一名基督徒。宣稱自己是基督徒卻否認復活的人是拿虛謊的舌頭說話，我們應當躲避這樣的人。
耶穌的復活其原初的意義是顛覆性的，它涉及基督徒信仰的根本。沒有了它，基督教不過是另一個以人類智慧的陳腔濫調給我們的道德感撓癢癢的人造宗教。使徒保羅言明一個「沒有復活」的基督教有什麼清楚、無可辯駁的後果。他推理說，如果基督沒有復活，我們就必須得出以下結論(林前十五13-19）。
1. 我們所傳的是枉然。
2. 我們的信心也是枉然。
3. 我們是為神妄作見證的。
4. 我們仍在罪中。
5. 我們所愛的那些死去的人已經滅亡了。
6. 我們是眾人中最可憐的。
這六個後果尖銳地揭示了復活與基督教本質的內在關聯，耶穌的復活是基督信仰的必要條件（sine qua non), 拿走了復活你就拆毀了基督教。
This
excerpt is from Who Is Jesus? by R.C. Sproul. Download all 28 Crucial Questions
ebooks for free here. https://www.ligonier.org/blog/rc-sprouls-crucial-questions-ebooks-now-free/
譯文轉載自：
Take Away the Resurrection and You Take Away Christianity
FROM R.C. Sproul
Here is the watershed of human history
where the misery of the race is transformed into grandeur. Here the kerygma,
the proclamation of the early church, was born with the cry “He is risen.” We
can view this event as a symbol, a lovely tale of hope. We can reduce it to a
moralism that declares, as one preacher put it, “The meaning of the
Resurrection is that we can face the dawn of each new day with dialectical
courage.”
The New Testament proclaims the
Resurrection as sober historical fact. The early Christians were not interested
in dialectical symbols but in concrete realities. Authentic Christianity stands
or falls with the space/time event of Jesus’ resurrection. The term Christian
suffers from the burden of a thousand qualifications and a myriad of diverse
definitions. One dictionary defines a Christian as a person who is civilized.
One can certainly be civilized without affirming the Resurrection, but one
cannot then be a Christian in the biblical sense. The person who claims to be a
Christian while denying the Resurrection speaks with a forked tongue. From such
turn away.
The resurrection of Jesus is radical in
the original sense of the word. It touches the radix, the “root” of the
Christian faith. Without it Christianity becomes just another religion designed
to titillate our moral senses with platitudes of human wisdom. The apostle Paul
spelled out the clear and irrefutable consequences of a “resurrectionless” Christianity.
If Christ is not raised, he reasoned, we are left with the following list of
conclusions:
1.Our preaching is futile.
2.Our faith is in vain.
3.We have misrepresented God.
4.We are still in our sins.
5.Our loved ones who have died have
perished.
6.If all we have is hope, we are of all
men most to be pitied.
These six consequences sharply reveal the
inner connection of the Resurrection to the substance of Christianity. The
resurrection of Jesus is the sine qua non of the Christian faith. Take away the
Resurrection and you take away Christianity.
This excerpt is from Who Is Jesus? by R.C.
Sproul. Download all 28 Crucial Questions ebooks for free here.
