Easter Riddles and Parables

Resurrection Parable

What is the Resurrection?
It is like a hand and glove. Your spirit is like your hand. Your body is like a glove. Just like a glove without a hand, your body can do nothing without your spirit inside. When you are born, your spirit enters your body.

When you die, your body and spirit are separated, just as you would take your hand out of a glove.

But when you are resurrected, your body and spirit are once again reunited. Just as a hand fills a glove, your spirit once again animates your body.
Because Jesus conquered death on the cross, resurrection is a free gift to all mankind.

This parable attributed to Boyd K. Packer

Atonement Riddle

Atonement means:
Justice and Mercy are Reconciled

What Gift from God, though among the greatest, do we appreciate the least?
Hint: the answer is a message of love that may surprise you. . . .
Are you ready for this? The answer is. . . . repentance.*

Every prophet who has ever preached repentance*, and they all do, gives a message of love. Here’s why, in His own words.

For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent. But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit — how sore you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not. 1

For the wages of sin* is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through [the atonement of] Jesus Christ our Lord. 2

Behold, he sendeth an invitation unto all men, for the arms of mercy are extended towards them, and he saith: Repent, and I will receive you. 3


Dinner Talk:

1. How is the Atonement of Christ, which we celebrate at Easter, a reconciliation of justice and mercy?
2. Upon what condition can we access the mercy of God?
3. How is repentance a gift of love, and a blessing to us?
4. Teaching activity: A Bag of Rocks
See also Prodigal: The Rest of the Story
              Carpenter of Nazareth: A Poem about the Atonement of Jesus Christ
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Notes
1. Doctrine and Covenants 19:15-18
2. Romans 6:23
3. Alma