August 2009
2 posts
Lazarus meaning "God has helped."
We are left wondering, Why Lazarus?
My theory is
God wants us to wonder this.
After all, if there were some quality that Lazarus possessed,
some criterion of excellence
by which he was chosen to be called
back
from death,
then we would all start competing to achieve this.
But if
God’s gift is simply random, well
for one thing
it makes a
more interesting TV show. God’s...
