Resurrection

will only reinforce this point later in the New Testament, by revealing characteristics of God and his eternal nature through the various miracles that He has done throughout his life. But amongst the miracles that Jesus had performed, Jesus’s resurrection is the most famous and influential to his nature of God. In particular, this event displays God’s power over everything and that he comes first in all things. To the argument of the eternal existence of God, Jesus showed himself as first and…

today. I contend that Paul possibly was not referring to the Church practicing this custom but rather he was talking about other pagan religious practices, in an effort to reinforce the resurrection of Christ and to show how if the lost can believe in this how much more should we be assured of our own resurrection. Perhaps this is what he intended when he made the statement in V. 29. This verse is perhaps one of the most controversial verses in the Bible, it is also possibly one of the hardest…

The Paschal Meal Hippolytus brings out the link between the sacraments of initiation and the Eucharist being the summit. Also, the sacrament of penance reaches its peak in the Eucharist, hence, the central sacrament is the Eucharist. The understanding of the Passover for the primitive church and the Jewish paschal ritual has to be clarified. Roland de Vaux thinks that the origin of the Passover ritual is from the nomadic shepherds who offered young animal for the well-being of their flocks.…

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, bases characters from Fitzgeralds personal life to interweaving intricate love relations that all follow his actions of the six most pivotal stages. Throughout the novel, Gatsby shows Fitzgeralds active attributes. They both “love and lost”, meaning that Fitzgerald and Jay would do anything for their beloved. Some critics may argue that the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is a common fictional character from The Great Gatsby, however, there are many examples…

Heavenly Origins are very large because they are very significant to not only the theme itself but also the song and quote chosen. Smaller words that connect to the theme in John’s Gospel are, ‘Ascension’, ‘Resurrection’, and Ascended. These words connect because the theme talks about Jesus’ resurrection and the Ascension of Jesus, when he ascended into heaven. All three of these words relate to Jesus’ Heavenly origins. Overall, all the words are significant and connect to the major theme in…

of God. The bible in many places spoke about death and afterlife, heaven and hell, the second coming of Jesus, the resurrection, the rapture, tribulation, millennialism, the end of the world, the last judgment, the new heaven and new earth of the world to come. Afterlife: some denominations believe that after death, the soul goes and sleeps and doesn’t wake up until the resurrection. Others believe that the soul will go to an intermediate place and stay their while it is awake. One of the…

Gospel means the good news, there is no genealogy or birth narrative but the good news of ‘the career of Christ as well as his death and resurrection’(Aune,1987, p. 17).As the second book of the New Testament, Gospel of Mark is one of the four canonical gospels and the three synoptic gospels. Originally, it was considered as ‘an epitome of Mathew’ (Perkin, 2009, p.57), and accounts for the position as ‘the earliest of the gospels’ (Brown, 1997, p.164). It mainly tells the ministry of Jesus, from…

death. One instance is the resurrection of Lazarus, a man from Bethany with whom Jesus was closely acquainted, found in John 11. Word of Lazarus falling ill was sent by his sisters, Mary and Martha. Upon arriving to the house of Mary and Martha a few days later, Jesus was told that Lazarus had lain in the grave for four days. Martha approached Jesus and mourned saying if Jesus had come sooner, her brother would not be dead. Jesus responded in John 11:25-26 “I am the resurrection, and the…

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…

England and even UK Prime Minister Theresa May to Cadbury’s rebranding of its Easter egg hunt. He pointed out that the name of the Christian festival does not have anything to do with Christianity and that Jesus’ disciples did not celebrate His resurrection by looking for substances that resemble chocolate. In addition,…