Sentences with phrase «christ over death»

How else could God have revealed the triumph of Christ over death except in a bodily resurrection?

To do that, whether by design or negligence, ignores the greater power of Christ over death.

Like the fourth Gospel, the central emphasis of Odes is the final victory that has been won by Christ over death and evil.

Not exact matches

There were actually over 90 distinct prophecies about the coming Redeemer that were fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection account of Jesus Christ.

You have no control over when the sun comes up and goes down and you have no control over death — for God Almighty is the Creator of all things past, present & future — repent now for the Kingdom of God is near and bow your knee to your Creator God — His name is Jesus Christ.

Written between 50 and 300 years after the death of Christ, over 300 books at one time, vetted down by the Emperor Constantine to a mere 78 at one point, a few more take out later, modified many times to suit it's political purpose.

As Christ claimed the victory over death by death, so a Christian defeats death and the fear of death with all of its tragic consequences through a mindfulness of death during his life.

Given the similarities between some of the major themes of the Philippians hymn and the chief characteristics of the emperor cult (the divine origin or pre-existence of the subject, his apotheosis by acclamation at death, his ubiquitous rule and receipt of universal homage) which have long been noted, and have received thorough attention, it is likely that the original composer of these lines, whoever they were, intended to assert the superiority of Christ over Caesar.

Saints in Heaven are still part of the Body of Christ because death had no power over them.

Yes, you are correct that the religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain, who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.

But whatever the language, it sprang from the conviction that the only genuine hope, the only hope really worth hoping for, the only hope worth believing, the only hope which was not an illusion, was a hope grounded in God, the God whom we Christians know through the life and the mighty victory of Jesus Christ over the power of death.

Victory over death has been won for us by Christ on the cross: «In the context of Christian faith, the drama of evolution merges inseparably with the (abysmal) death and (grounding) resurrection of Jesus and, in him, with the eternal drama that is the Trinitarian life of God.»

The imagery in the readings is beautiful and triumphant, a fitting trumpeting of Christ's victory over sin, death and the devil.

In Christ, this God «triumphs gloriously» over our enemies and over sin and death and whatever else separates us from God.

I have entered territory that extends beyond the safe boundaries of what I know, wandering by way of the sea, as well as the far - off lands where Paul will soon be wrestling with the Corinthians over what it means to be baptized into Christ, and into his death and new life.

In all that Jesus said and did, in his death on the cross and in the living presence of Christ, a promise of victory over sin through the forgiving love of God is brought to us.

that said over the years many copts have willingly left their homes taking their children with them to the rulers and announcing their christian faith and taking it to death for Christ's sake.

All worship is now a participation in this «Passover» of Christ, in His «passing over» from divine to human, from death to life, to the unity of God and man.»

The gospel proclaims the victory of Jesus Christ over sin, death, and the power of Satan, and inaugurates hope that ultimately and fundamentally God will establish his rule over all his enemies and ours.

The eternal peace of humanity with God, received by faith on account of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the power of Satan, is dismissed as pie in the sky to be exchanged for the various approximations of peace and happiness that in good times this world also knows about and experiences.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

Many of the churches in Rome are built over or near the tombs of the martyrs, those who willingly faced (an often tortuous) death rather than renounce their faith in Jesus Christ.

In the New Testament death is sometimes represented as the penalty for sin, or it becomes the symbol for separation from God, and thus Christ's victory over sin is also the victory over death.

Emil Brunner has distinguished five major themes in which the significance of the death of Christ is described.6 There is the sacrifice, the ransom, the penal suffering, the victory over evil powers, and the symbol of the Paschal Lamb.

Armed with this faith and the certainty of Christ's victory over death, they established the church and became flaming witnesses to the love and the power of God in Christ.

Already in his lifetime and even more in the years of the «rites controversy» over the legitimacy of «accommodationism» that followed his death in 1610, Ricci was accused of having compromised the uniqueness of the person of Christ.

The empty tomb is the first sign of Christ's victory over sin and death.

So confess your sins to God and to one another to gain release and victory over them, for you have already been cleansed of these sins through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and your life should begin to match the reality that is already true of you in Jesus Christ.

The transfiguration narrative, balanced between heaven and earth, incarnation and resurrection, unites the two approaches by showing the glory of Christ's obedient victory over death in the form of his incarnate humanity.

Jews believe in a Messiah, but don't believe it was Jesus (though the passover ceremony is all about Christ); Muslims go back to Abraham but since the prophet Mohammad don't have any recent connection to God; Catholics came from a combination of the Roman and Christian church after the death of Christ's apostles; Protestant's see misunderstandings in the Catholic church and have tried in various forms over the years to correct them without any true religious authority; Mormons believe God restored the truths of the original Christian church back on earth through modern prophets and revelation.

The Spirit of God is the source and sustaining power of life; the Resurrection of Christ over the power of death is the God's guarantee for the life, in destructible, eternal and full.

Our knowledge of Christ's victory over death changes how we mourn.

By his death on the Cross and his glorious exaltation to the Father's right hand, Christ has been made Lord over the whole world, even though his dominion is not universally acknowledged (Philippians 2:9 - 11).

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Verse 20 describes the joy of the world over Christ's death that will turn into the sorrow of judgment, and compares this with the disciples» sorrow that will turn to joy.

I believe and affirm that Christ's death gave Him (and those who follow Him) victory and power over sin, Satan, and death (Christus Victor theory).

She knew nothing of the debates over how Christ's death is an atonement for sin, or about charges that the cross represents «divine child abuse.»

Mary Magdalene, once possessed by seven demons, became the first witness of Christ's resurrection from the dead, and the first person in history to tell others the full and complete message of Christ's power over sin and death.

And instead of remembering Jesus Christ and His death / resurrection, we're going to remember David's victory over Goliath.»

9, the very purpose of Christ's death and resurrection: «It was for this that Christ died and came to life, that He might exercise lordship over dead and living alike.»

In Jesus Christ we see that God's victory over evil and death is not by might, but by weakness, not by weapons but by suffering.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

There is no way to prove, historically, that where the church has been equally vigorous in preaching the word and celebrating the sacraments, there Christ has been powerfully present, demonstrating his victory over death, disease, and evil.

I am instead, slowly but surely, learning to view that journey — of struggling, failure, repentance, restoration, renewal in joy, and persevering, agonized obedience — as what it looks like for the Holy Spirit to be transforming me on the basis of Christ's cross and his Easter morning triumph over death.

The Spirit of God permeated the humanity of the Son and so caused Christ to triumph over death.

The essence of the Christian message is that Jesus is the Christ, demonstrated as such by his victory over death in his resurrection.

Indeed, such conceptions as Christ's victory over sin and death on our behalf and the forgiveness of sins through him are part and parcel of the event itself which we know as Jesus Christ.

The worship of the individual over the collective is a fairly modern movement in Christianity, even though Christian history is firmly orthodox and sees the «death to self» as an embrace of the collective (aka the Church, aka the Body of Christ).

It is also important to recognize that the real meaning and ground of the resurrection faith in the primitive church was not particular items in the tradition nor particular views as to how Christ's victory over death was accomplished.