Rise, the Woman’s Conquering Seed: An Easter Meditation

(Before It's News)

Bruise in us the serpent’s head.
—Charles Wesley, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (1739)

If He did not rise, but is still dead, how is it that He routs and persecutes and overthrows the false god, whom unbelievers think to be alive, and the evil spirits whom they worship?
—Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word (c. 320)

At the Beginning

At the beginning of human history, God promised to establish warfare between the serpent and the woman, and between his seed and hers:

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel (Gen. 3:15).

This enmity is personal, covenantal, and cultural. It is at all times religious. The serpent propounded a worldview of cosmic evolution, one that was both secular and magical. The serpent denied the reality of the personal Creator God and had nothing left to offer mankind but practical atheism and an impersonal universe, run and beset by “natural” forces. When Adam and Eve signed on to Satan’s rebellion, they embraced this worldview religiously. That is, they committed themselves to it as the religious presupposition of their thoughts and actions.

Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/religion/rise_the_womans_conquering_seed_an_easter_meditation/

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