The reason why Christians go to church on Sunday instead of Saturday isthat Jesus' resurrection occurred on Sunday. ... The resurrection of Jesus Christ on Sunday is also known as the Lord's Day. Therefore, Christians celebrate the day of Christ's resurrection instead of the Sabbath, which ...
Echoing Hitchens’ point, Christianity is unique among religions because it has a self-destruct mechanism. The book of I Corinthians says that the truth of Christianity hinges upon the resurrection’s historical reality — meaning that the story of Christ dying on the cross and coming back to li...
aEaster is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead two days after his crucifixion, and celebrate this resurrection on Easter Sunday, two days after Good Friday. The year of this resurrection is variously estimat...
Even more momentous that the death of Jesus would have been his resurrection, but even there, the gospels are full of conflicting accounts. From who went to the tomb, to whether or not the stone had already been removed, to what those who were there saw, to what they were told, the g...
41:05- How does the Church reconcile the preferential option for the poor when poverty arises due to one of the 7 deadly sins? 49:04- In the Creed it mentions the resurrection of the body. Why is this important and why can’t we just leave the body behind?
to theQueer Bible Commentary, which draws upon "feminist, queer, deconstructionist, utopian theories, the social sciences and historical-critical discourses." Dale Martin, an openly gay man, believes neither that Jesus' resurrection is a historical fact, nor that the historical Jes...
Jesus’ use of parables is a great example of discernment on his part. Parables, if you remember, were told to those who lived before the resurrection of Christ. They did not yet have the full or complete picture to help interpret. That being said, some understood, because they “knew”...
Examining the resurrection accounts in the last chapter or two in the four gospels and the first part of Acts along with the few bits Paul mentions yields a long list of incompatible claims. The Samuels, Kings, and Chronicles in the Old Testament retell, and rewrite along the way, many ...
The resurrection. Where do miracles come from? Spiritual sources. The source of miracles is alwaysa divine, spiritual, supernatural, sacred, or numinous power that may be conceived in personal form(e.g., God, gods, spirits) or impersonal form (e.g., mana or magic). ...
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum. Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen. I believe in one God, almighty Father, maker of the heaven and the earth, of all things visible and invisible, and in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, ...