I joked last year that 33 was «My Jesus Year» (because in most church traditions, Jesus did the whole «
Death and Resurrection Thing» in his thirty - third year and so people try to make their 33rd year very meaningful).
Not exact matches
We say lots of
things in general conversation but when it comes down to it after some deep thought I think we would all agree as Christians that our main aim is the same as Gods Son, that is, everyone is included in his
death and resurrection plan.
The
death and resurrection of Jesus are definitely part of what we share in evangelism, but we tell them these
things to convince
and persuade them to believe in Jesus for eternal life, not because they get eternal life by believing in the
death and resurrection of Jesus.
Yet indeed I also count all
things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all
things,
and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him
and the power of His
resurrection,
and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His
death..»
There is a difference between the mechanism of justification (the
death and resurrection of Jesus, along with a myriad of other
things)
and the message of eternal life (believe in Jesus for it).
The only
thing that really matters is whether or not all that stuff about Jesus»
death and resurrection is * true *.
Up to now our attention has been focused on the last
things in the lives of individuals: personal
death, particular judgment, immortality, an interim state, heaven / hell,
and bodily
resurrection.
The formulation «The messiah reveals the participation of all
things in the eschatological fulfillment that he accomplishes by his
death and resurrection» does not do justice to the biblical witness that the eschatological fulfillment is achieved through two comings of the messiah, not one.
Just as in the gospels the most important
thing is the incarnation,
death and resurrection, while the how of the incarnation, the virgin birth, lies in the hinterland; so also in respect to the doctrine of Scripture, while inspiration is as clearly taught as the virgin birth, it lies rather in the hinterland.»
But, as the same
thing only has one beginning of existence, the same person is not raised up, rather a new one is, unless something of me carries my existence in between
death and the general
resurrection which, as Martha said, happens on the Last Day (Jn 11:24).
The Eucharist is indeed the key to it all, for in the Mass we are brought into the presence of Our Lord's birth,
death and resurrection, His ascension, the descentof the Holy Spirit, the final consummation of all
things.
Could it be, for example, that a kairos for suffering
and hope does not preclude theological attention to other clarnant issues, not only as they bear upon this one, but also in their own right - sin as how we all stand accountable before God,
death as our common mortality, error as our common lot -
and what the Good News says about all these
things, i.e., forgiveness,
resurrection, revelation?
The first
thing to be emphasized here is that the very use of the idiom of
resurrection implies that the phenomenon of
death is real for the whole person
and not just for his physical body.
C. H. Dodd from the angle of realized eschatology
and his conviction that Jesus believed the kingdom had already come in his own person interprets them as originally spoken by Jesus to refer to the crisis connected with his own
death and resurrection.9 Others who believe that Jesus could not have said these
things attribute them to the early church
and the error of the evangelists in presenting them as his words.
First of all, if Jesus's
death and resurrection did not save us from having to choose between «one bad
thing»
and «another bad
thing» then I'm afraid it didn't do much at all.
v. 16) Thus the
death and resurrection of Christ are interpreted as the divinely ordained crisis in history through which old
things passed away
and the new order came into being.
It draws attention to all sorts of
things that baptism enacts: our plunging into
and identification with Christ, the washing away of our sins, our drenching in the Spirit, our burial with Jesus in his
death,
and our rising again to new life in his
resurrection.
After studying Jesus in the Gospels, He showed me many
things, including that through His
death and resurrection that there is life after
death,
and that I don't have to be afraid of dying because the grave is not the end.
The Gospel is the good news that God has sent his son Jesus Christ into the world in order to reconcile Creator to creation, which will renew all
things and he has done all this through Jesus» perfect sinless life, bloody atoning
death on the cross
and subsequent
resurrection from the dead.
If Jesus»
death and resurrection was sufficient to save you or me, then we don't need to add this «choice» to the list of
things that are necessary for it to happen.
(Mark 4:8) Of all
things, shouldn't our very first desire in parenting our children be to till the soil of their little hearts so tenderly, so carefully, so intentionally that their hearts are «good soil,» ready, eager,
and willing to receive the Good News of Jesus» birth,
death,
and resurrection for their sins?
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