Even more incongruent, 6 percent of these atheists and agnostics also said that they believed in
the bodily resurrection of the dead.
They believed the only solution was to return to the fundamental certainties and the supernaturalist thought forms of premodern times, The booklets reaffirmed belief in a personal God, the infallibility of the Bible, the deity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, miracles,
the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and the substitutionary view of the Atonement.
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.
For Wright,
the bodily resurrection of Jesus serves God's work of «putting the world to rights.»
We firmly believe in the historical reality of the death, burial, and
bodily resurrection of Jesus.
Make no mistake, we are not challenging the historical fact of
the bodily resurrection of Jesus.
The Trinity The Full Deity and Humanity of Jesus Christ The Spiritual Lostness of the Human Race The Substitutionary Atonement and
the Bodily Resurrection of Christ Salvation by Faith Alone The Physical and Visible Return of Christ The Authority and Inerrancy of Scripture
The bodily resurrection of Christ is basic to Paul's understanding of eternal life, but this very concrete faith that gives rise to his hope that we will join Christ in a resurrection like his becomes less and less comprehensible the more one reflects on the eternity it promises.
The widespread misunderstanding that the New Testament teaches the immortality of the soul was actually encouraged by the rock - like post-Easter conviction of the first disciples that
the bodily Resurrection of Christ had robbed death of all its horror, (But hardly in such a way that the original Christian community could speak of «natural» dying.
The bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is absolutely central to Christian faith, and anyone who denies it or says it is unimportant has fallen into heresy.
Prominent liberal theologians rejected the possibility of miracles, denied the virgin birth, and even challenged the deity and
bodily resurrection of Jesus.
It is also inconsistent with the reality of the human body on earth, which clearly does not rise, and indeed with
the bodily resurrection of Christ and the Assumption of Our Lady.
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 serious answer that follows talks about «forming an alternative culture, where it is easier to be good and where the fruits of the Spirit are cultivated,» while embracing orthodoxy to the point of emphasising
the bodily resurrection of Christ.
At the core of the Christian belief in eternal life is
the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Even now Catholic / Christian professors of theology are questioning
the bodily resurrection of the simple, preacher man aka Jesus.
Therefore those who can not believe in
the bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth can not use this as an excuse to reject Christianity.
Sr Jordan James is inspired by some everyday reflections which foster a Catholic culture; Cyprian Blamires applauds a lawyer's defence of
the bodily resurrection of Christ; Peter Hodgson is both convinced and alarmed by a distinguished scientist's analysis of the devastating effects of climate change.
The booklets reaffirmed what the writers took to be the fundamental and unchangeable doctrines of Christianity: the infallibility of the Bible, the deity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, miracles,
the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and the substitutionary view of the Atonement.
Even now even Catholic professors of theology are questioning
the bodily resurrection of the simple, preacher man aka Jesus.
And I believe in
the bodily resurrection of Jesus, who is God.
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.
So much of the media focuses on what Crossan questions -
the bodily resurrection of Jesus, miracles attributed to Jesus - that people assume he's not a Christian.
The picture suggests
a bodily resurrection of the dead and a transference of the living directly from this world to another.
Unless one can accept, say, the doctrines of the Virgin Birth,
the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, and the Trinity, then one can not be a Christian believer.
To be sure, we have an expanded canon of Scripture, but nothing within the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, or Pearl of Great Price contradicts what is taught in the Bible regarding the virgin birth (which, by the way, we definitely believe in), teachings, miracles, atoning sacrifice, or
bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
Overall, 37 percent of Americans believe there will be
a bodily resurrection of the dead, compared to 72 percent who express a positive belief that there is life after death.
Even now even Catholic / Christian professors of theology are questioning
the bodily resurrection of the simple, preacher man aka Jesus.
Not exact matches
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.
God uses the analogy
of a
bodily resurrection that he might illustrate the national
resurrection of his people Israel.
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).
This would require the courts to come to grips with the significant stupidity
of bodily resurrections, changing bread and water / wine into bodies and blood, atonement
of sin et al..
This is evident from the fact that when the hope
of life after death emerged, it took the form
of bodily resurrection.
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.
I doubt that he would personally object to
bodily resurrection, ascension, and enthronement, although these are not the themes
of his teaching.
Perhaps it is, and if so, it becomes the sheet anchor
of belief in a «
bodily resurrection.»
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.
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.
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.
She may have had other concerns, depending on how literally she understood the
resurrection of the body to be a raising
of this
bodily material.
Undoubtedly those with a materialist frame
of reference do find it impossible to take seriously such a claim as Jesus»
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.»
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.
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.
Third Jesus tomb and bones: No
bodily resurrection and maybe they will find also the kind
of cigars He smoked!
She is adamant about the necessity
of core creeds — the deity
of Christ, his virgin birth and
bodily resurrection.
Everyone, 2000 years ago or today, would tend to be skepical about a claim
of bodily resurrection.