There is a toddler amongst our friend group

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Date: 06 September 2004 11:50:44

And apparently he recently asked a parent or an aunt or someone, "Why did Jesus rise from the dead?"

To which the answer was, "Ask Dyfrig".

Clearly, the imposition upon my shoulders of a blue scarf has invested me with the aura of someone who knows these things. I'm sure Curate Dregs has this aura too, although his is obviously bigger and better than mine because he is ordained.

I do not know how to answer this question because I don't know how to translate my own understanding of it - Jesus the man is the ultimate expression of covenant faithfulness, for which God the Father rewards him by raising him from the dead in accordance with Israel's eschatological hope...oh and by the way, Jesus was God too, so you have this odd paradox of God having to die to make this possible - into language suitable for a three year old. Hell, I can't even manage to be coherent for the congregation of a Sunday morning, and most of them are under- or post-grads.

Perhaps I shall say to the child what his parents say to him about beer - it's something he'll get when he's older.