Happy Easter 2026!
Usually, Sunday is when I pen (actually peck out) my weekly Op Ed. What else should be written on Easter, other than Easter? It’s the singularly greatest event since the creation of the Universe. The point in time and space when the Creator of the Universe reconciled His created beings to Himself. The Creator becoming one of his creations in the Incarnation is huge, but not as big as the Resurrection.
It’s so big that Christians celebrate the Resurrection every seventh day. And will until the earth ends. Which it will.
The ideas held in the words – Incarnation and Resurrection – are expressed simply yet carry confusing complexity.
Consider Incarnation. How can one being be wholly God (a spirit) and wholly man (a body with a spirit)? What is a spirit? How is the spirit different from the human brain?
Recently, I read Church father St. Athanasius’ “On the Incarnation”. The foreword by C.S. Lewis was almost a third of the book. Their arguments were based on Scripture rather than some tradition or oral history. It reminded me of sermons, tied to Scripture, which Charles Stanley made about Jesus being wholly man and wholly God.
The Scriptural explanation completes the case for Jesus as wholly man and wholly spirit against the alternatives.
Yet, it doesn’t say how it works. Here’s how my very finite mind imagines the infinite functions.
God the Father is an incorporeal spirit. Old Testament is clear on this. He has no body. In fact the passage about Him using the earth as a footstool could literally mean His sprit is as large as the distance from the earth to the moon.
That’s a timely reference given Artemis II’s mission.
In Genesis 1:1, God created space, time, matter and energy from nothing. According to the Big Bang Theory, all the matter in the universe was compressed into energy in the space of a man’s thumb. Which would be the size of a preincarnate Jesus’s human-sized mouth. Interesting, huh?
Perhaps the essence of God the Father as wholly a spirit means He is a combination of energy and matter. Much like how light is a wave and a particle.
So, “let there be light” unleased energy which transformed into matter and energy. Created the universe. All of it. And time and space.
Therefore, couldn’t God the Father put a piece of His spirit – some measure of energy and matter – into human cells at conception?
Imagine a huge bon fire. If you take a stick and catch it on fire and walk away, isn’t the fire on the stick the same fire as the bonfire but physically removed? Then, why couldn’t the Creator remove a piece of Himself and put it into human cells?
That would make Jesus wholly God in spirit and wholly man in body – which includes mind.
Which begs the question of what is mind and what is spirit?
I believe the spirit within humans is a physical entity. It may exist at the sub-atomic level in its mass. Consequently, at the moment of death the documented energy loss is equal to the mass of the spirit being transformed into energy, E = MC2, and sent to the after-life somewhere in a different space and time.
The tiny mass could actually hold the memories of a lifetime. See studies on how much data is physically stored in a single human cell. In fact, everything the brain puts together for humans could be recorded in sub-atomic spaces. And spirit is more than memories. It is thought and more. It is feeling and more. It is the holistic human. It’s the “I” that lives. It’s the real you.
Also, this could approach explaining how the Holy Spirit could be indwelling, physically, the human bodies of all Believers. It’s another piece of spirit, with a tiny mass and energy, in this space and time in a person. In billions of people.
Then, the Resurrection goes beyond anything remotely explainable. It’s not magic. Not make believe. It happened or it didn’t.
Jesus’s human body transformed into a resurrected body which wasn’t bound by time or space. He appeared and then disappeared. He talked. He could be touched. He ate food. All – after He got up and walked out of his tomb. After being dead, dead, dead.
Only the Creator of the Universe could transform the living, then dead, into the eternal. There’s no explanation.
Every human, if told the Good News, can accept it as truth or reject it.
I believe Jesus rose from the grave. And, I believe that because He died for my sins, at the moment of my death the small energy containing my essence leaves my body, goes somewhere, and I become a new man in a different place and time.
Happy Easter 2026!
Read James Atticus Bowden at https://jatticus.wordpress.com/ and https://substack.com/@jamesatticusbowden and https://x.com/jatticusbowden
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