To some of us it seems that in the...

To some of us it seems that in the cross of Jesus Christ, in the death of such a man who trusts God and is responsible to him as a son, we face the great negative instance-summarizing and symbolizing all the negative instance-is faced, faith in the universal power as God must rest on quicksand; in facing it however, we have the demonstration in this very instance of a life-power that is not conquered, not destroyed. Reality maintains and makes powerful such life as this. The ultimate power does not manifest itself as the Father of Jesus Christ through his resurrection from death. The resurrection is not manifest to us in physical signs but in his continuing Lordship-his session at the right hand of power, as the old creeds put it. So we apprehend the way of God as manifested not in creation and destruction but in these and resurrection, in the raising of the temporal to the eternal plane.