Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead.The article reviews the book "Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead," by Sara Miles.RicheyNancyLibrary Journal
The secular historical view of Jesus is that too, that he was a preacher, possibly a healer too and that his followers later exaggerated the stories about his miracles. They'd say "Jesus raising the dead" was simply Jesus healing someone close to death with medical knowledge. In fact ...
Romans 10:9-13further underscores the importance of personal faith in salvation: “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth...
When The Five Gospels deals with Mark 5, for example, a chapter that includes sayings of Jesus in the context of stories (the Gerasene demoniac, the healing of the woman with a flow of blood, the raising of Jairus’s daughter), all of these sayings are summarily dismissed. Here’s why...
We see the raising of Lazarus, but not Jesus weeping (one of the more human moments in John’s Gospel, and famous for being the shortest verse in the Bible). And as agonized as Jesus appears during his passion and crucifixion, he never falls carrying his cross, and no Simon of Cyrene...
177). In Acts, prayer prompts healings (3:1; 28:8–9), outpourings of the Holy Spirit (1:14; 8:15), visions (9:11–12; 10:2, 4, 9, 30–31), miraculous rescues (12:1–17; 16:25–34), and even raising the dead (9:40). It leads to boldness in ministry (4:29, 31)...
, the belief in God's saving grace through Jesus is destroyed. When Jesus rose from the dead, he confirmed his identity as the Son of God and his work of atonement, redemption, reconciliation, and salvation. The Resurrection was a literal, physical raising of Jesus’ body from the dead....
That same foursome asked Jesus on the Mount of Olives for signs of the earth’s end, which inspired the eschatological discourse in Mark 13. As a member of Jesus’ inner circle, James witnessed the raising of Jairus’s daughter from the dead (Mark 5:37 and Luke 8:51), the ...
Other themes in painting were the Annunciation, the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt, and scenes from Jesus’ public ministry, such as his healing of the blind man, his raising of Lazarus, his driving the traders from the Temple, the Last Supper, and the women at the Holy Sepulchre....
For example, He claimed omniscience by telling Peter, "This very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times" (Matthew 26:34); declared omnipotence by not only resurrecting Lazarus (John 11:43) but by raising Himself from the dead (see John 2:19); and p...