Photios Kontoglou: Christ is Risen! The Trial of Reason

Most people are unbelievers. Even Christ’s own disciples did not believe the words of their teacher whenever He told them that He would rise again, despite all the reverence and devotion they had for Him and the trust in His words.

And when the Myrrh-bearing women went at dawn to Christ’s tomb and saw the two angels who spoke to them, saying that He had risen, they ran to bring the joyful news to the disciples, but the disciples did not believe their words, thinking they were fantasies: “And their words seemed to them as idle tales (nonsense), and they did not believe them.”

Do you see how much unbelief Christ Himself struggled against?

Even with His own disciples. Did you see with how much longsuffering He endured it all? …And despite all this, even to this day, most of us are separated from Christ by a frozen wall—the wall of unbelief. He opens His arms and calls to us, and we deny Him.

He shows us His pierced hands and feet, and we say that we do not see them.

We seek to find supports for our unbelief in order to satisfy our pride, which we call Philosophy and Science.

The word Resurrection does not fit within the books of our knowledge... Because “the knowledge of this world cannot know anything else, except for a multitude of reasonings, but not that which is known through the simplicity of the mind.” Yes, those who have that blessed simplicity of mind, the Lord blessed them, saying:

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” And to Thomas, who was seeking to touch Him in order to believe, He said: “Because you have seen Me, Thomas, you have believed?

“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” Let us pray to the Lord to grant us this rich poverty, and the pure heart, so that we may see Him rising, in order that we too may rise with Him.

This unknowing (ignorance) is higher than knowledge: “This is the ignorance that is superior to knowledge.” Blessed and thrice-blessed are those who have it.

 

Greek source: https://353agios.blogspot.com/2016/04/blog-post_61.html