Reality San Francisco The Death of Death
Dec 2, 2013
A sermon on death as an enemy and the claim that Christ has conquered it. Discussion of 1 Corinthians 15 and the centrality of bodily resurrection. Reflections on cultural attitudes toward mortality and why bodies and creation matter. Teases logistics of the afterlife and the hope of renewed bodies and a renewed world.
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Death Is Christianity's Enemy To Be Defeated
- Death is described as an enemy to be defeated, not a neutral or natural part of life.
- Dave Lomas emphasizes 1 Corinthians 15:26 calling death the "last enemy" that Christ will destroy, reframing mourning as righteous anger and hope.
Steve Jobs Reflection Used To Illustrate Death's Unnaturalness
- Dave Lomas recounts Steve Jobs' reflections on death from his Stanford remarks and biography as a cultural example of resisting finality.
- He quotes Jobs and Isaacson showing how creatives subconsciously fight death by building things that outlast them.
Human Longing Points To Created Eternity
- C.S. Lewis' analogy suggests humans feel 'not at home' in a purely material world because we were made for eternity.
- Lomas uses Lewis to argue that the human sense of longing and time's strangeness point to creation for permanence.
