“Good Friday is not the dark that must unconditionally give way to light. It is not hibernation that carries within itself the seeds of life. It is the day when the God-become-human, the Love-become-person, is killed by humans who want to become gods -- when the Holy One of God, i.e., God himself, dies, really dies–by his own will and yet by the sin of humankind—without a seed of life staying in him.
Good Friday is not like winter –a state of transition, no, it really is the end. Not about immortality does Easter speak, but of resurrection, resurrection from the death that really is death with all its terrors and monstrosities, a death of body and SOUL, of the whole human being. And here only one thing alone can help—God’s act of power out of his eternity. Resurrection comes by God’s act of power alone. That’s the Easter message!”
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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