God and the future remain if Christ did not rise, but those who have fallen asleep in Christ, believing on him, have found in him no help, have found through him no pardon. With all their sins upon them, they have entered into the presence of their Maker and Judge. What a relief to...
JESUS Christ -- ResurrectionCHRISTIANITYETHNOCENTRISMANTHROPOLOGYBIBLE. N.T.Did Jesus rise bodily from the dead? Even those who give an affirmative answer to this question do not all agree on the reasons why. According to the Gospels, Jesus's close circle of followers believed in his resurrection...
For example, the Nazi’s called themselves Christian. So did the Ku Klux Klan. And prior to the Civil War in the U.S. in the 1860s, many Christians were using the Bible (incorrectly) to justify enslaving people. Did Jesus Christ ever model violence or hatred toward others? Just the op...
He supposedly also had the ability to walk on water, instantly create vast amounts of fish and bread, resurrect the dead, rise from the dead himself, calm storms and exorcise demons from people. From the first time Christian children settle into Sunday school classrooms, an image of Jesus C...
If Jesus did not actually rise from the dead, why didn’t the opponents of the new faith simply produce the body? That would have ended “Christianity” really fast. Did you know that if Jesus did not actually rise from the dead, all of His disciples would have surely known that was ...
If Jesus did not actually rise from the dead, why didn’t the opponents of the new faith simply produce the body? That would have ended “Christianity” really fast. Did you know that if Jesus did not actually rise from the dead, all of His disciples would have surely known that was ...
“delays” in God’s timetable. For example, we have previously considered the question, “Why did Jesus wait three days to rise from the dead?” and “Why is Jesus waiting so long before He comes again?” Obviously, those questions are different than this particular question, but the ...
When Jesus came the first time, He fulfilled the true meaning of Passover, arguably the most important holy day in the Hebrew calendar. He also fulfilled the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of First Fruits with His rise from the dead. This is important for His followers to understa...
But here’s the problem: The basic and usual meaning of these terms is “stand up”—not “rise from the dead.” It may have the latter sense inMark 5:41, but that isnotits usual meaning. Normally, it refers to the physical act of standing. ...
Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. Numbers 16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken on...