Jason: “Only a God can save us”?
Archie: I didn’t say some preacher could. But what a story.
Jason: Story?
Archie: The Jesus thing. God, the Creator of the universe, becoming a man, suffering worse than any person suffered, suffering an injustice worse than any of us can suffer? Incredible! I forgot that’s what Christians believe.
Jason: Did he convert you?
Archie: Imagine, though, if it were true. God so relating to us that He dies with us, as a human being? What a different spin that puts on things!
Jason: But suppose it’s not true?
Archie: It ought to be, then.
Jason: Archie…
Archie: It ought to be…
Shadow Men, by: Clifford Goldstein, pg. 91-92
By: Gabriela Yareliz
I enjoyed the discourse between Jason and Archie in the play Shadow Men, two men waiting to die on death row. After Preacher Mike comes to talk to Jason, both engage in a discussion about the reality of God. They are both skeptics but Archie makes an interesting wistful declaration.
I believe in the “Jesus thing.” I believe in a God who related so much to us that He came and died for us being like us.
Archie is right… it ought to be true… and it is.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 