Sentences with phrase «bodily resurrection as»

Surely it should be clear that the paradoxical character of the term «spiritual body,» when applied to the resurrected Christ, means that Paul did not conceive of the bodily resurrection as a «proof.»

I suspect he'd reaffirm his view that Christian salvation would surely comprise bodily resurrection as well as spiritual survival.

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

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Elaine Pagels, among others, has argued that the success of the affirmation of a bodily resurrection was due to the way it functioned in the early Church, as it served to legitimate the authority of a narrow circle of bishops.

Believing in angels, satans, bodily resurrections, atonement, and heavens of all kinds as does Osteen is irrational.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

Cremation — a disposition method that was associated with pagans — was seen as an act of disbelief in the bodily resurrection.

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

He never thought, after the Greek fashion, of soul as pure being, capable of disembodiment, but spoke, as his Jewish contemporaries did, of future life in terms of bodily resurrection, and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways of conceiving the raised body and its uses in the next world.

It leads me (some would say, compels me) to believe a string of truths regularly denied in circles which reject or reduce the Scripture principle: the reality of Satan; the existence of angels; the bodily resurrection and sacrificial atonement of Christ; the historical fall into sin; the deity as well as humanity of our Lord; the certainty of his coming again; and the dreadful judgment of the wicked.

And you can't use we are more «enlighten» then the dark ages, for they did not believe in bodily resurrection just as us but for different reasons.

Undoubtedly those with a materialist frame of reference do find it impossible to take seriously such a claim as Jesus» bodily resurrection.

The other is the actual condition of our bodily selves in the afterlife, what has customarily been referred to as the resurrection of the body.

Is Lindsell correct in his assertion that Willi Marxsen's denial of the bodily resurrection denies him the possibility of being a Christian, even though, as Beegle states, Marxsen is «absolutely convinced that Jesus of Nazareth is living and calling him to faithful service»?

Therefore those who can not believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth can not use this as an excuse to reject Christianity.

Christian faith... is possible apart from belief in Jesus» resurrection in particular and life beyond bodily death in general, and because of the widespread skepticism regarding these traditional beliefs, they should be presented as optional.

The next important line of defense consists in the claim that the New Testament has preserved records of such historical value that their testimony to the «bodily resurrection» establishes it beyond all reasonable doubt as an historical event.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

In the first chapter we opened up a discussion of what is meant by the term «resurrection», and found that this quickly led us to the traditional conception of the resurrection of Jesus, a view often known as «bodily resurrection», which, with minor variations, has dominated Christian tradition for about eighteen centuries.

As the Christian comes to abandon his belief in the empty tomb and «bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he trusteAs the Christian comes to abandon his belief in the empty tomb and «bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he trusteas a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he trusted.

The chief arguments used to support the traditional view of the empty tomb story — known as «bodily resurrection», and why many scholars today fail to find them convincing.

We have opened up the question sufficiently to show that there is a very real possibility that the whereabouts of the burial place of Jesus was not known when his resurrection first began to be proclaimed, and that unless this can be established as an historical fact, that argument for the «bodily resurrection» which we have been considering remains invalid.

We argue for the bodily resurrection of Christ, but the body of Christ's resurrection is none other than the body of Christ which is the church, understood as that emergent community of love guided by the dynamic activity of Christ's Spirit.

The «soil» of our lives is often imbued with struggle, pain and times of very deep distress, but these were all known by the «man of sorrows», who carried these bodily to the cross with all that impedes us now, that, as William Tyndale so richly put it, we might gain that better resurrection.

According to Vass, Rahner gives no assurance to the immortality of the soul, and sees as feasible the possibility of bodily resurrection immediately after death.

First, the interest in bodily resurrection demonstrates that Christians understood the person as composed of soul and body, not primarily as soul.

The Apostle Paul's extensive wrestling with the problem of the bodily resurrection throughout the 15th chapter of I Corinthians is, as always, instructive.

Easter faith as the symbol of hope offends no one, but Easter faith as belief in an empty tomb and in Jesus» bodily resurrection is quite another matter.

Luke countered withdrawal from bodily existence with the blatantly bodily quality of Jesus» resurrection — «See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have» (Luke 24:39).

We reject, as ideas not rooted in Judaism, the beliefs both in bodily resurrection and in Gehenna and Eden as abodes for everlasting punishments and rewards.»

The Resurrection is the real indication of Christ's power over death and sin, of course, but also of His power over matter: matter is raised to new potentialities, new relationships, as shown by His Risen Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time and space as before, an indication of our own future bodily lives in the state called «heaven».

Jesus was the Christ from the moment of his conception, but it took the events of salvation and his bodily resurrection from the dead for him to be recognized as such by men.

He was charged with denying the inspiration of Scripture, denying that Jesus was the revealer of infallible truths, denying the bodily resurrection of Jesus by regarding it as myth, and undermining the authority of the papacy.