Jesus: The Trojan Horse of the Resurrection

Why St. John Chrysostom’s Paschal Homily Still Wrecks the Theology of the Modern West

“It took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth, and encountered Heaven.”
—St. John Chrysostom, doing theology like it’s a battle hymn

Holy men need caffeine too.

Let’s get this out of the tomb:
The resurrection wasn’t a polite handshake between God and Death.
It was a holy ambush.

In the most audacious move of all time, Jesus dies—not because wrath demanded blood—but because death needed to be destroyed from within.
He becomes the bait.
The bait with a beard.
The bait who just happens to be the Son of God.

And Death?
Poor fool thought he won.
Dragged Jesus down to Hades like all the others.
But here’s the twist:
Death swallowed a human… and choked on God.

Boom.

Welcome to the Ultimate Heist

You want penal substitution? No, this is not that. This is cosmic infiltration.
Jesus did not come to settle some divine legal proceeding.
He came to launch an invasion.
He came to unmake death itself. Not just for the faithful. For everyone.

Chrysostom doesn’t preach a gated afterlife with a spiritual VIP section.
He throws open the gates and cries, “Come, all of you!”
The devout and the doubters.
The early risers and the spiritual insomniacs.
The atheists who died cursing, and the mystics who died in bliss.
Everyone receives the same reward. Everyone is raised.

The tomb was not an exam.
It was a detonation beneath the foundations of reality.

Want to know why the Church never wanted Mary Magdalene’s story told?
Read “The Gatekeepers Forgot About the Nous (and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene)”

Resurrection as Default Setting

You do not choose resurrection like a dessert topping.
It is not opt-in.
It is the new operating system of human existence.

You were born into mortality.
You are reborn into divinity.
Deification is now the default mode.
You do not earn it.
You awaken within it.

You Don’t Even Have to Believe It

Here’s the wild part:
You do not need to “accept Jesus.”
You do not need to recite a specific prayer.
In fact, you do not even need to believe he existed as a historical person.

That is the power of myth.

And by “myth,” we do not mean fiction. We mean eternal pattern, spiritual architecture, cosmic blueprint.
Jesus is the Trojan Horse that smuggled divinity into the human condition.
Whether you are aware of it or not, you are already inside the story.

Peeling Back the Onion of the Nous

You can willingly participate in this resurrection.
Not to earn salvation—but to uncover your original face beneath the masks.

Every practice of silence, prayer, art, weeping, healing, or joy—
Every time you peel away shame, delusion, or ego—
You’re lifting the veil.
You’re peeling back the onion of the nous.

Layer by layer, the light emerges.

This is not a reward for correct belief.
This is the eternal reality you were born into.

👉 I wrote more about that unveiling of the nous—and how the Gospel of Mary Magdalene threatened the gatekeepers—in this piece.
(Spoiler: she knew too much.)

Here’s What They Should’ve Told You on Easter Morning:

• You do not earn resurrection.

• You do not need belief to access it.

• Jesus did not die to appease wrath.

• He transformed death into a weapon against itself.

• He walked into Death’s domain and destroyed it.

• Now your soul is already glowing—whether or not you notice.

So if your version of the gospel still involves a God who requires blood before He can love...
...you may be reading the wrong story.

Chrysostom knew the truth:
The tomb was not a transaction.
It was a Trojan Horse.

Christ is Risen!
And not one dead remains in the grave.
All shall be raised. All shall be deified. Even those still peeling the onion.

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