Sentences with phrase «christians believe in resurrection»

As Christians we believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and in his glorious return.

As a Christian I believe in the resurrection of the body, and my thinking about it begins with the resurrection of Jesus.

Not exact matches

When you read the context and see that Paul was speaking on the subject of those who don't believe in the resurrection, but believed in baptism as Christians, you realize that he was saying that what is the point of baptism if you are only going to end up dead.

Right... because the good christian right would much rather have a man whose church supported polygamy, believe that Jesus popped over to the US after the resurrection, and will return again in Missouri.

He said: «You only had to have half an hours conversation with him to realise that he was a man of passionate Christian belief and conviction and what is more he believed entirely in the incarnation, that God comes among us fully in the person of Jesus, and he believed entirely in the resurrection.»

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

My recollection of the New Testament is that the early Christians believed in Jesus's death and Resurrection.

There was a huge cost, both theologically and personally, to the disciples and other early Christians for believing in the resurrection.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

That is why I said that of course I did not maintain that one can not be an intelligent Christian and continue to believe in a bodily resurrection.

For example, in 1923 Mullins, the champion of «soul liberty,» outlined various basic Christian beliefs (e.g., biblical inspiration, the miracles of Christ, his vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection, literal ascension, and final return) and declared before the SBC: «We believe that adherence to the above truths and facts is a necessary condition of service for teachers in our Baptist schools.»

since you see no difference between various religions, you don't understand the uniqueness of what Christians believe Christ is offering in the cross & resurrection.

If one were trying to be objective, one could simply write the factual statement, «Christians believe that Christ's Resurrection took place in Jerusalem,» and leave it at that.

Funny, I thought Christians believed in a bodily resurrection of everybody in the end times, heaven or hell coming after that resurrection, not some spiritual heaven - ish or hell - ish para-existence in a disembodied state that starts the moment you die physically.

Believing in the physical resurrection of Jesus is a 100 % essential article of faith to anyone who wishes to claim the moniker «Christian» for him / herself.

So why do we need faith to believe in the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth if the evidence for this event is as strong as Christian apologists claim?

The Christian church everywhere confesses, «We believe in the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting».

The great Christian creeds conclude by putting these major affirmations together: «I believe in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.»

In the resurrection of Jesus, Christians believe, God also revealed the destiny intended for each one of us.

The early Christians did not believe in the resurrection, as such, but in the risen Christ.

Thus, rightly to believe in the central Christian «miracle» of Christ's resurrection is in no way to challenge the method of science or to suspend the warrants of responsible historical inquiry.

Nevertheless, most of these persons would probably agree with the recent statement of a contemporary Christian philosopher that «Christian belief means accepting the resurrection of Christ, and therefore it seems to involve believing in at least one miracle.

Indeed for the Greeks who believed in the immortality of the soul it may have been harder to accept the Christian preaching of the resurrection than it was for others.

25 per cent of British Christians do not believe in Jesus» resurrectionOne in four people who class themselves as Christians do not believe the resurrection...

Andrew Hamilton - Thomas responds to a recent survey which revealed a quarter of UK Christians do not believe in the resurrection More

I also believe that the Easter message of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ provides a new context or dimension in which the Christian can set this doing of good works.

Now what I mean is this: in the three verses listed above, the apostle Paul makes it clear that the Corinthian Christians he is addressing HAD «received» and «believed» his gospel message of Christ's death and resurrection (cf. 1 Cor.

Christians who believe with Cullmann that «the whole thinking of the New Testament is governed by belief in the Resurrection» will no doubt join him in denouncing all attempts, ancient or contemporary, to make of death a natural phenomenon (Cullmann, p. 19).

Thus, the Corinthian Christians are NOT an example of Christians who had never believed in Christ's death or resurrection.

Christians have also believed that the resurrection of Jesus points to God's capacity to overcome evil, at least in the long run for those who trust God.

If you believe A, then you'll believe B. Or, more practically in this regard, if you believe A, then you'll believe H (something way down the line that is essential to the Christian faith, like Christ's resurrection).

A recent 2012 Pew Forum poll found that 98 percent of members of the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and 97 percent believe their church is Christian.

But based upon a plethora of New Testament passages, Christians have also recognized that there IS indeed also a technical usage of the term «the gospel» that came into effect after Christ's resurrection that refers not to good news in general, nor to the general revelation of God given through the Old and New testaments, but to the specific message that must be preached to the lost and must be believed by the lost to receive eternal life.

Conservative Christians still believe in a physical resurrection, so they love the verses you quote.

The Christian who believes, in line with all classical Christianity, that Christ truly rose from the dead knows — whatever elements of truth the doctrine of reincarnation may have on the lower levels of life — that for man the final truth is personal resurrection.

«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?