Death didn't have the final say


Continuing on the thought expressed in my previous blog, the ability to give or create life and everything else makes God supreme when compared to the Devil who doesn’t have this specific gift.

So God created man and everything else. More importantly, God created man in his own image and he planned to have regular fellowship with him. This basically meant that man had almost all the powers including the ability to think and create that God had. Of course, he was not as powerful as God. No way. The rebellion of the angels, who were much more powerful than mankind, had probably served as a lesson for God that his own creation can rebel against him, and so he better ensure they are not powerful enough to cause serious damage.

Devil, unfortunately for him, can't give life and so he can't create anything. But he also needs people on his side if he wants to ensure that the power gap between him and God doesn’t increase so much that he is no longer in the reckoning itself.  But he had another important power. The power of death. Anybody inflicted with death would be under him. And so he fooled man into eating the apple of death.


With that one act, everything that God created became the Devil’s. The only way God could now get back what was rightfully his was by figuring out a way to bring the dead back to life.

This is where Christ comes into the picture. God is life, he couldn't die. Hence he had to take the form of the being that was infected with death by the Devil.

Many were raised from the dead. But they were raised from the dead by God or by God's men using God's power. Only Christ came back from the dead on his own. I think there was a possibility that Christ might not make it back despite him being God incarnate. I think he had to wage a bloody battle in hell to get back to life. He had to basically defeat the Devil and incapacitate him before he could come back to our world from the netherworld. And he had to do all this in spite of the limitations imposed on his powers due to his incarnation as man.


But he had one advantage. His bloodstream was not infected by the death virus. That was the source of the Devil’s control over man. That deadly virus ensured that the Devil could keep man under his sway no matter how hard he tried to break free. That corrupting virus made man believe he didn’t have the power to fight the Devil. Well, thankfully, Christ did win that battle and became the first man to conquer death. Thereby, showing us all that death can be conquered and no longer has any hold over us in the eternal scheme of things. 

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