Crucifixus est Dei filius,
non pudet, quia pudentum est.
Et mortuus est Dei filius,
prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est.
Et sepultus ressurrexit,
certum est, quia impossibile est
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
The son of God is crucified,
this does not bring shame
because it is disgraceful.
And the son of God is dead,
this is worthy of faith
because it is illogical.
Kai after his burial he
rose,
this is certain because it
is impossible.
It is the resurrection of Christ a real event?
The answer may come from an unexpected place ...
Long ago when I was reading "The Birth of
Tragedy" by Nietzsche, I realized that what some people think they know
about "Nietzsche the atheist" is not valid. Nietzsche in this
document refers to things that easily could be part of a... theological text.
He talks about this primary One, and how the man in his Dionysian ecstasy comes
in harmony with it. He analyzes his opposition to the religion of his days, which
contrast is based on the fact that religion has become a religion of scholars
(while Logic cannot explain the world!). He talks against science and reason
which try to explain the world while seeming simply adhering to its surface.
Maybe analyzing something logically is not the
solution. Maybe you should stand "irrational" in front of the problem
to find a solution. Isn’t that what scientists we admire as
"geniuses" do?
He rose.
Do you believe it? No.
The resurrection of a man who has died is a deeply
illogical fact. It cannot happen based on what we know. But it is for this very
reason that Shestov motivates us to believe it! Why should we believe the
"reasonable" things? Not many true things are reasonable. Is it
logical that we live for no reason at all and then we become fertilizer without
any reason? Why immortality is irrational and the accidental existence is logical?
Who has instilled such ideas to us?
He rose.
Do you believe it? No.
Many say they saw him resurrected. But you do not
believe them. They tell you so. You refuse to listen. You deny your own existence. An existence which
cries out that you are more than a set of meat and bones. And yet you're rational.
You believe that you will die. But life itself is irrational. You cannot logically
find its meaning. Because it is hidden where you are not looking. Stop
thinking. See with your eyes closed. They tell you. You do not hear them. You
want to see. But even if you saw you would not have believed. Because you are
logical. You would try to find the "trick" behind what you see. You
live a life in logic. How can you become irrational now? How can you start
living now?
He rose.
Do you believe it? No.
He lived and he died while being innocent. You think
he did a trick. A stunt. Or even worse: you think that it was a common liar. A
common liar who just got a crisis of conscience and sacrificed himself ... for
fun! They tell you he resurrected. Others also wrote down their testimony to
satisfy your need for modern "written sources". As you did not
believe Homer, you do not believe them either. You are what you have told you
to be. You hear what they have told you to listen. You are a ridiculous little
man who cannot think on his own without the prior consent of his “spiritual
leaders”. You would never defend with your own life something absurd that you
saw happening, you would never defend your beliefs. You do not have the guts to
do so. You simply follow. If “reliable sources” do not tell you so, you do not
believe so. But if your “sources” tell you so, then you are ready to believe
anything, no matter how absurd, without protest.
Are there
parallel universes? Yes.
He rose.
Do you believe it? No.
Be unreasonable and see what eyes cannot see:
Resurrection means victory over death. Don’t you see? You're not just blood and
bones. You're an enlightened being. And you have no need of sources (you have)
or evidence or empirical data (which you also have) to believe. You're a deeply
irrational creature dropped in the world and you everyday feel anxious about
who you are and where are you going. You know nothing, but know that there is
meaning in all this.
We must be irrational! As irrational is life! Logic
could never solve important problems (after all, Gödel has proved that logic cannot answer everything,
and cannot even help us answer simple questions like "can you demonstrate
that this proposal cannot be proved?") while insight and intuition have
provided solutions to many mysteries. Scientific riddles of ages have been
solved with irrational thinking - not by "logic.Your logic makes you
believe in "infinite". And yet you have never seen it... Irrational?
Your logic makes you think that there are problems without a solution
("This proposal cannot be proved") and yet you "know" that such
problems do not exist. Irrational?
We live. We are basically irrational.
Perhaps the question should be put differently.
As Rilke says, the purpose of life is to be defeated
by greater things.
He
died.
Do
you believe it? No.
