Holy Saturday is the «no man's land»
between death and Resurrection, but One has entered into this «no man's land.
The little parable in verses 34 - 36 may originally have been a word of Jesus preparing his disciples for the interval
between his death and resurrection.
Here there is an interval of four days
between the death and the resurrection.
Father vivifies us, resurrecting us, we become conscious again — with the perception that no time has elapsed
between our death and resurrection, as if we merely slept a dreamless sleep.
It was, in a word, recognizably the same Sheol that had developed in the imagination of later Judaism, an intermediate state
between death and resurrection.
Scripture tells us very little about Jesus» state
between his death and resurrection.
Not exact matches
First, people who argue that we must obey the Mosaic Law do not understand what Jesus Christ accomplished in His life,
death,
and resurrection, do not understand the Gospel of grace,
and do not understand the difference
between Israel
and the Church.
I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference
between how to receive eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ alone for it),
and the logical
and theological foundations for that truth (deity of Jesus,
death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).
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).
But once the new covenant
between man
and God came about as a result of Christ's
death and resurrection, we were given this free gift of salvation.
However, just like it says in 1 Peter chapter 3 where during the time
between Jesus's
death and resurrection where he was preaching to the spirits who were in prison who once lived from days of Noah
and the flood, that they were actually not lost souls after all.
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.
In the moment, when a Catholic realizes the connection
between his infant baptism
and the gospel, he becomes a Protestant or Christian: He follows Jesus in daily life by the power of Jesus
death and resurrection.
The «going» is probably the
death of Christ
and the «coming,» the
resurrection, with «the little while» the interval
between, though this may be deliberately ambiguous, so that the interval
between the ascension
and the second coming may also be suggested.
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).
There is a vast difference
between knowing in a general way that religions have a sense of God or the Holy,
and knowing the saving life,
death,
and resurrection of Jesus in the life of the Christian community.
Now, for the time that intervenes
between man's
death and the final
resurrection, there is a secret shelter for his soul, as each is worthy of rest or affliction according to what it has merited while it lived in the body.
Paul's meaning is that by virtue of the
death (
and resurrection) of Christ the boundary
between the two ages is crossed,
and those who believe belong no more to the present evil age, but to the glorious Age to Come.
In one respect it appears that even within a very few years the perspective of the kerygma must have altered, namely, in respect of the relation conceived to exist
between the
death,
resurrection,
and exaltation of Christ on the one hand,
and His second advent on the other.
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.
This concept of «soul,»
and the physicalism proposed by many of the contributors, is unacceptable to those who hold that Christianity teaches that man is one unified being but composed of two essential parts - a physical body
and a properly spiritual soul which, though the substantial form of the body, is a subsistent entity capable of conscious existence when separated from its body
between an individual's
death and the General
Resurrection.
The show takes some liberties that should feel comfortable for all believers, such as recreating imagined dialogue
between Thomas
and the other disciples in the days
between Jesus»
death and resurrection.
The belief in the
resurrection presupposes the Jewish connexion
between death and sin.
But his deep concern for retaining ethical coherence in a postmodern world was also evident, as was his traditional allegiance to Jesus: «In his baptism, his teaching, his healings, his passion,
death and resurrection — in all of it, there is a demand laid on us, or an offer tendered,
and it is the task of the Christian to embody that offer in his world, being as candid as he can about the difference
between Jesus» beliefs
and his.»
In the end,
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel reveals a vision that makes
death a parenthesis
between moments of life,
and makes the body a site not only of
death but also of redemption.
We can prove this by 1 Peter 3:19 - 20: «By whom also He went
and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once the divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah...» This event occurred
between Christ's
death and resurrection.
For many years of my life, the time span
between the
death of Jesus
and the morning of the
resurrection was the one day of the Christian calendar that I understood
and practiced devotionally.
This might be no more than a battle over semantics, were it not for one very real stumbling block: the interim period
between the
death of individuals
and the general
resurrection of the dead.
In the end, any theology worthy of the name would need to work out some accommodation
between the structures of the Church, on the one hand, with its monarchical papal authority, its traditions
and practice,
and, on the other, Scripture, the written record of the life,
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, together with the records of the life
and teachings of the group of His first followers.
It contains one unique belief with reference to Jesus, not found, at least certainly, in any other part of the New Testament, namely, that Christ
between the time of his
death and resurrection «went
and preached to the Spirits in prison, that aforetime were disobedient» (3:18).
«In the upcoming show, the line
between [
death and resurrection] is all that remains.
Two thematic tours are currently available: In the Details, which prompts visitors to discover how the smallest detail can change the way we see
and understand a work of art;
and Death, Love,
and Resurrection, which examines the dialogues that exist
between these themes, from Roman sculpture to contemporary American painting.
I think it «s time to draw a line in the sand dude,
between the sort of low - brow, unintellectual, cheap, rock star BULLSHIT peddled by the likes of mass media WHORE - mongers to the genuine god given gifts of visionaries, performers
and those who have a message
and a wish to change the world — whether there be recrimination, rewards,
RESURRECTION, fire, persecution, loneliness -
death in obscurity or a bullet in the back... There is a big difference
between those who seek only to divulge their weak interests for self indulgence
and those who seek only to communicate with HONESTY
and TRUTH.