(Mark 1:24; Luke 24:19). After his death he came to be called Jesus Christ.Christwas not originally a name but a titlederivedfrom theGreekwordchristos, which translates theHebrewtermmeshiah(Messiah), meaning “the anointed one.” This title indicates that Jesus’ followers believed him to ...
Jesus' preachings included the forgiveness of sin, life after death, and resurrection of the body. Jesus also preached the imminent end of the current era of history, or even the literal end of the world and in this sense he was an apocalyptic preacher. Some interpretations of the Gospels, ...
Another question that has been raised, usually in the context of Jewish-Christian relations, is whether the Jews or the Romans were primarily responsible for Jesus’ death. Christian theology has generally replied that the joint action of Jew and Gentile in the crucifixion of Jesus is a symbol ...
2 Corinthians 4:11 :“For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in mortal flesh.” Today’s Meditation:The word “always” tells that we not only experience the cross once, butalways carrying about in the body the dying...
This rejection of life after death and its application to salvation was somewhat rare. With the surge in apocalyptic literature surrounding early Judaism there were many diverse voices who began to focus heavily on the ultimate victory of God in the life to come with vivid imagery and language....
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There is going to be fire—it’s REAL! We are not talking about the fairy tale version of life after death. Hell is something very real that Jesus spent much of His time talking about. Hell is a place of fire. We find that description over and over again. You ask yourself, “Well...
Deuteronomy 18:20-22“A prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death. You may say to yourselves, ‘How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?’ ...
During that period – what you think of as my death and then ascension – was a time then of great karmic dispensation, not just for those present but for all upon the planet at that time. And that gift is renewed during this period once again. And so that is why I ask to bring ...
Some of his followers claimed to have seen him after his death. The details are uncertain, since the sources disagree on who saw him and where he was seen (the final sections of Matthew, Luke, and John; the beginning of Acts; and the list in Paul’s first Letter to the Corinthians, ...