As shocking as the miracles of Jesus are, we can still get our minds around Jesus stilling the waters or healing a leper or casting a herd of wild pigs into the sea. We may be surprised by Jesus wonders, but, still, we can understand Jesus wonders. Yet knowing Jesus from a human perspective-owning Jesus as a rational, understandable concept leaves something missing from our lives. Knowing Jesus from a human point of view leaves Jesus as a part of history, a piece of the past, a man who was great among mortals. The WWJD bracelets and Jesus miracles of the Gospels leave us empty and answerless in the face of a school shooting or a painful divorce or a bankruptcy if we think about Jesus from a human point of view.
Human answers pass away.
And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them. Paul s reminder of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ puts a snag in the path of the false teachers and phony prophets who had invaded Corinth. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ changed the way that the Corinthians perceived Jesus Christ. No longer was Jesus Christ simply the miracle worker, the superhero, the wonder worker for the Corinthians. Paul prodded the Corinthians to remember that the resurrection of Jesus Christ changed the way they lived.