Resurrection of the dead

principles in Luke 24. First, the missionaries must know resurrected Jesus personally. Usually we perceive Luke 24:36-44 as the resurrection story. Indeed, this event was about…

died on the cross to forgive the sins of the world. That God sent His only son to the world to help save His people. Near the end of Van Biema’s article he talks about how the Jesus Seminar said that “the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not essential to the faith; and that, in fact, the Resurrection may not have occurred at all,” . This was not surprising to hear, because the Jesus Seminar is trying to decipher what Jesus did or did not actually say. For the Jesus Seminar to believe that they…

someone by his side. The Jews believe that YHWH, or "The One Who Is" (Wright, 101), could raise people from the dead. So when Jesus was resurrected from the dead, people believed that Jesus was the incarnation of YHWH. They believed that he was God on earth because of the interaction God had with David. God told David that he would raise David's son, who was the Son of God, from the dead and he would live among the people because "God will indeed dwell with his people" (Wright, 110) This proved…

QUESTION 1. What does salvation mean? How does the death and resurrection of Christ save us from our sins? Are Christians the only persons who can experience salvation? Can animals and other living things in God’s creation be saved? Question 1A: What does salvation mean? Salvation is defined as rescue from mortal peril, deliverance from sin and death, and the gift of fulfilled life in communion with God. In classical Protestantism, salvation is forgiveness of sins and rescues from the…

Jerry represents the dichotomy between public and private, through his “honest tradesman” facade and his “resurrection-man” occupation. Jerry represents the conflict of good and evil through his seemingly hypocritical nature, spiritual growth, and eventual repentance. Jerry represents the duality between other characters through his contrasting nature with Jarvis…

What the early Christians made of the resurrection can be gathered from the letters of Paul, the Gospels, and the Acts of Apostles. It is quite a complex picture; did they believe that Jesus had undergone a spiritual or physical resurrection? The earliest sources that I could find about this is from the letters of Paul. His belief in the resurrection of Jesus is based on a vision of the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus. But the evangelists…

C. S. Lewis beautifully portrays the story of the Crucifixion and Resurrection in a fiction setting in such a way that Christians see the parallels and are reminding of the ultimate sacrifice but people who are not familiar with Jesus still can take something away from Lewis's story, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Throughout the Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis weaves Biblical themes into the characters' lives. The most prominent story Lewis uses is the Crucifixion of Jesus when he pens…

Traditionally, most people believe that what propelled the Jesus movement was Jesus’ crucifixion was seen as a massive defeat, where his followers were ready to leave and give up on the hopes of a new kingdom, but then Jesus was resurrected and this resurrection was going to give Jesus’ followers another chance at experiencing the Kingdom of God. Aside from these traditional views, some theologians argue that there are other events that propelled the Jesus movement and caused its expansion. In…

traversing Physical space between them. Per example, the case of Christ Resurrection after Crucifixion and consequent death is still the hot topic among both the laymen and ‘the experts’ as well. Needless to mention, the gross majority of ‘Materializations’ Terrestrial Man were exposed to were fraudulent, and some real once were either unnoticed or beyond their comprehension skills. •Regarding Christ, so called “‘the Secondary Resurrection’, the still imperfect form of Materialization, has in…

Apostle’s Creed is used in Christianity as the basic belief system. Furthermore, the basic system for beliefs for Christianity is written in the Apostles Creed. The Apostles Creed says “I believe in the Holy Ghost... The forgiveness of sins. The resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.…