Why Christ Still Has His Wounds
April 9, 2013 By Ragan Sutterfield Leave a Comment A Sermon on John 20:19-31 In Dante’s Divine Comedy, after he’s followed Virgil through hell, after he’s climbed the seven story mountain of purgatory, watching penitents shed the remnants of each of the seven deadly sins as they climb, he arrives at the edge the garden of Eden on the top of the mountain. It’s a journey back to square one. He will go into Eden and then from there into heaven where the beautiful Beatrice will great him. There’s only one thing he must do before he can enter the garden–he has to forget. He has to forget his sins, he has to forget the person who lived in sin and death. The garden of Eden is an earthly paradise and the memory of sin would color the whole experience of the garden. To enter Eden while remembering sin would be like coming to a wedding dressed for a funeral. On the border of Eden there is a river called Lethe, it is the river of forgetti...