Resurrection of the dead

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most prolific event that ever happen. Should the resurrection of Jesus Christ be a sign of the Gospel, or not? Before determining this question, the meaning of sign must be noted. “It is an important word which points to something beyond itself. When a miracle is designated by this term, it is seen as a happening that is not self-contained, not an end in itself.” “A sign is; something material or external that stands for or signifies something…

main allusions in Game of Thrones to religious texts is the second coming of an all-powerful savior whose light and strength will defeat the forces of darkness, magical, undead, humanoid beings known as the White Walkers as well as the Army of the Dead. The primary gods in Game of Thrones are “a set of seven archetypal gods” (O’Leary, pg. 1), also known as the “old gods,” and a god of light from another land far away from the realm of Westeros. Throughout the story of Game of Thrones, conflict…

theodicy (which refers to the problem of evil) through resurrection and the afterlife. The idea is the resurrection of the just will be rewards while the unjust will be punished. This is evident in Daniel 12:2-3 as…

It is true that in the days of Jesus the Sadducees still refused to believe in any life after death. Indeed, because Jesus stood for “the resurrection and the life” in opposition to the authorities who stood for the principle of death and darkness, these people were forced to bring the judgment on themselves to bear unjustly upon their accuser, and judge, and attempt to destroy Christ. However…

The seven signs that I found are as follows: I am the Bread (John 6.35), I am the Light (John 8.12), I am the Door (John 10.7), I am the good Shepherd (John 10.11), I am the Resurrection and the Life (John 11.25), I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14.6), I am the true Vine (John…

As we have seen, for Paul, God the Father is He who has raised Jesus from the dead. Paul views the Abrahamic narrative in this light as if the narrative were written with that statement being true at the time that Abraham walked the earth. The God of Abraham is the God who would raise Jesus from the dead. Implied in that statement is that Jesus had to die. Knowing that Jesus is God the Son, that means that, from time immemorial, the Son is He who would be sent by the Father to suffer and die.…

title of “doubting Thomas” on the first Easter Sunday simply because he did not believe Jesus had risen from the dead. According to John 20:24-29, Thomas had not been with the other disciples when Jesus appeared to them, and was in doubt when they told him that Jesus had returned. It wasn’t until Jesus appeared to Thomas and had him touch the fatal wounds did Thomas believe His Resurrection was true. Throughout history, many artists have depicted this moment between Christ and Saint Thomas…

According to Oxford Dictionary Online, Resurrection is “the act of causing something that had ended or been forgotten or lost to exist again, to be used again” Christianity teaches that Christ was resurrected into eternal life for making the ultimate sacrifice for mankind. The idea of being “recalled to life” comes through every course of A Tale of Two Cities. The French revolution is form of resurrection. The revolutionaries had to destroy the entire society to form a new one to gain their…

463). I both agree and disagree with Moltmann's statement. I believe that God's existence now is just as real as his existence from the moment of creation to the point of the resurrection, and to the present time, and His existence in the future is the same as well. I believe God's existence is outside of our time line of the earth, the Milky Way, and the universe. His existence transcends time, but He is at the controls of time…

representative examples to show how Judeans formed a concept of resurrection. At first, he argues that Ezekiel symbolically used a metaphor of resurrection to manifest Israelites’ renewal achieved by God (256). For him, although Ezekiel’s prophecy did not mean literal resurrection, it was very crucial because it first introduced the image of resurrection to the Israelites (257). In addition, he asserts that Daniel prophesied the literal sense of resurrection ambiguously described in Isaiah 66…