Art as expression – NOT as market campaigns, will still capture our Imaginations
First, even the most ordinary of earthquakes would in this case, due to its timing, have been strongly suggestive of the supernatural; but this was far more and utterly different from any ordinary earthquake.
A careful reading of Mark 3:28 and context reveals that the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is designated as “an eternal sin,” thus one of a class of sins that are called eternal and which are without forgiveness.
This manifestation of God’s power should cause the soul to tremble! Only the ONE TRUE GOD AND CREATOR of the universe could step forth and lay his hand upon the established routine of the natural creation and bring to pass such a darkness as that which enveloped the world during three full hours of the crucifixion.
The salutation here is not that of Paul, as if he had said, “Kiss everyone for me,” but the salutation of the members themselves for one another with a sacred kiss of Christian love.
There are actually seven Calvary miracles, the greatest and most wonderful, of course, being the resurrection of Christ.
True, Jesus was not yet dead when the Pharisees determined to pay Judas exactly thirty pieces of silver; but then they fully intended to kill him as soon as possible, overlooking the parallel fact that God’s law required the “ox” to be stoned after such an incident!
One could come nearer understanding it if Christ had been betrayed for some big reason, but the things which apparently motivated Judas were extremely small considerations.
