Rouge47
Follower of Christ
I know that someone has already started a thread called "Does God Roll Away Stones That Shut You In?" But this one a little more different.
I would like to bring up the significance of the stone itself. More particularly, WHY it was rolled away.
My youth director should really recieve the credit for this since she inspired me to start this thread.
Her belief about the stone is that not the angel, but Jesus himself rolled it away. And not to come out of the tomb past the stone but so we could look in and believe. In later scriptures it was said that “appeared” in rooms with his disciples, no doors were used by him. She believes that Jesus rolled away the stone and then appeared to both Mary’s on their way back to bring the news of his resurrection to the disciples. This is was stated in the book of Mathew by the way. If Jesus walked out of the tomb then both Mary’s would had to have seen him walking around. But they only found the angel at the tomb. The angel told them to go tell the good news to his disciples that he was no longer there. So on their way back to town they were met by Jesus himself who said, “Do not be afraid.”
This was my youth director’s opinion, and I can see the logic and reasoning behind it.
I was tired that night and when asked how do I think the stone was rolled away I replied, “He got up, took off his burial garments and said to the stone, ‘Boy! Move!’.”
I would like to bring up the significance of the stone itself. More particularly, WHY it was rolled away.
My youth director should really recieve the credit for this since she inspired me to start this thread.
Her belief about the stone is that not the angel, but Jesus himself rolled it away. And not to come out of the tomb past the stone but so we could look in and believe. In later scriptures it was said that “appeared” in rooms with his disciples, no doors were used by him. She believes that Jesus rolled away the stone and then appeared to both Mary’s on their way back to bring the news of his resurrection to the disciples. This is was stated in the book of Mathew by the way. If Jesus walked out of the tomb then both Mary’s would had to have seen him walking around. But they only found the angel at the tomb. The angel told them to go tell the good news to his disciples that he was no longer there. So on their way back to town they were met by Jesus himself who said, “Do not be afraid.”
This was my youth director’s opinion, and I can see the logic and reasoning behind it.
I was tired that night and when asked how do I think the stone was rolled away I replied, “He got up, took off his burial garments and said to the stone, ‘Boy! Move!’.”
