Not exact matches
OK nice summary, except that glorification does not occur
after death but
after Resurrection (for those who have died) or
after Translation (for those still
alive when Christ returns).
After all, who can understand the coming power of the
resurrection better than someone who has lived as a dead man but is now
alive in Christ?
The fifth major principle is belief in the Day of
Resurrection, belief that everyone will be
alive in the next world
after his death here.
This type of experience, suggested not only in Paul but in some of the Gospel narratives, (E.g., Matthew 28:16 - 17; Mark 16:9 - 12) may have been the beginning of the conviction that Jesus was not dead but
alive, and the more physical representations of the disentombment may have been an aftermath, caused by the insistent belief of the Jewish - Christian mind that
resurrection was of necessity involved in life
after death.
Even if Mark were written in Palestine, 30 years
after the death of Jesus, and there were still people
alive who witnessed the
resurrection, how soon was the gospel put into public circulation?