Chapter 7 - The Science (Self-Evident Truth) of the Resurrection

Hebrews 9:26 says “…but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.”

Let’s say you were guilty of murder and were about to be sentenced to death or at the very least, life without parole. But through a highly unusual set of circumstances, someone turned up who was willing to stand in for you and receive your sentence. That would enable you to go free as long as you did not commit another crime. Now suppose you heard that your stand-in was allowed to go free three days after sentencing. Would justice have been served? You may or may not see where I’m going with this analogy, but when it came to the plan of salvation, we know that Jesus was sent as Adams’ (mankind’s) stand in. And with that being the case, let me pose to you a very serious question...  Since Christ was Adam’s (mankind’s) stand-in, and sin, according to the Bible, results in eternal separation from God, why is Jesus Christ allowed to live again?

Take your time pondering because your knee-jerk response might not be one based upon the principles of creation.

While you’re contemplating that, let’s refresh our minds with Romans 1:20. I won’t write the verse out again but the premise is that spiritual, figurative, or invisible things can and should be understood by the tangible, literal, or created things of this world. With that said I believe the answer to my semi-rhetorical question lies in John 10:17, which says “… therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take (receive) it again ...”

This verse needs to be considered in conjunction with Philippians 2:5–7. “(5) Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus (6) who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God (7) but made himself of no reputation and took upon himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men.”

There are very profound principles embedded in these two texts that will provide an answer for the question I posed earlier about the justice of Christ being resurrected when He was made to be sin on our behalf (2 Corinthians 5:21).

To answer this question, we first need to start at the building blocks of human construction and anatomy. Doing so causes us to examine the role that human blood and semen play in this new tangent of discussion ...