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 because he has appeared to them. For almost twenty centuries, ...
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 t...
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 t...
Regarding the hated tax collectors, Jesus often welcomed them to dinner. It wasn’t for strategic gain. Jesus also wanted them to know his love for them. Jesus covered many topics in his public teaching: forgiveness, prayer, marriage, helping the poor, revenge, etc. Yet, despite the oppress...
If I understand his somewhat obscure prose correctly,Steiner suggests that what the initiates once heard and saw in the Mysteries in thetemples of Egypt was transformed into the historical Jesus. The cult drama ofOsiris eventually produced the Jesus of the Gospels, in whose fate all Christians...
Far from it, I actually like most cats – but not this one. After half an hour or so of my watching David fawn mutely over this animal, the animal itself decided it was time to move on. It worked its way free of David’s grip, jumped to the floor and, with a lithe and ...
Then, mounting their ponies, they went slowly on again, feeling their way by the rise and fall of the ground. They were steering, as well as they could guess, for the gate-like opening at the far northward end of the long valley which they had seen in the morning. Once they were ...
without seeing it as the fulfillment of the Old Testament. Likewise, a full understanding of the Old Testament depends on our reading it as a preparation for the work of Christ in the New Testament. Of course, we might ask, “What major Old Testament prophecies did Jesus actually fulfill?
Jonahalmostdied and was saved from death by the whale, while Jesusactuallydied and was saved from death by his resurrection. This was greater than the deliverance Jonah received, for—as Jesus said—“behold, something greater than Jonah is here” (Matt. 12:41). ...
10 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you,[a] but you will not always have me. 12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. ...