Jesus Shows What Yahweh is Really Like

The season of Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but we often limit that to being hopeful about the life after this one. In reality, the resurrection didn't cause the early followers of Jesus to jump right to that conclusion, but instead were intrigued to understand what the resurrection meant about Jesus himself. And in his theological treatise known as the Gospel of John, the author has Jesus say that "anyone who has seen me as seen the Father," and this statement becomes a corrective for the many assumptions people were making (and what people still make today!) about what God is actually like. This is important, because what we think God is like will have a direct connection to what we think we should be like . . .