Sentences with phrase «death and resurrection»

The actual life, death and resurrection of a man form the great center of the story.

I think spiritual growth is through death and resurrection, so it more resembles fatal trauma then recovery into a new mode of being than growth.

A friend of mine was interested in Christian beliefs about death and the resurrection, so I added a few questions to the survey about exactly that.

So we are free to celebrate His birth, death and resurrection if we wish and when we wish.

The journey brings grief, pain, redemption, transformation and freedom, which is what death and resurrection are about.

We need not be surprised, therefore, that the biblical words of death and resurrection occur quite readily to the pastor in thinking about the care of souls.

The present decay of traditional Christendom is a challenge to our faith in death and resurrection.

Followers of Jesus will be characterized by death and resurrection.

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.

In Jesus death and resurrection as first born of New Creation, we have each been given a new identity as Resurrection people who are to live as agents of reconciliation.

There are two ways of overcoming the difficulty which those who do not believe the soul is immortal have in explaining the gap between death and the resurrection of the dead in the traditional Christian belief.

again HOW does Jesus fake his own death and resurrection??

Even the bull - worshiping pagans of Mithraism incorporated the re-enacting of death and resurrection rituals.

If the church was inventing stories about Jesus, death and resurrection stories were not the sorts of stories they would have invented.

Jesus death and resurrection changed the world for the good forever so all of you liberals Christian haters should live with it or go live in societies that show no tolerance.

Jesus wants us to follow His example of death and resurrection so that we lay down our lives for others.

I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

But the clear and overwhelming witness is to Jesus himself as the new and living way, whose death and resurrection are decisive.

Since death and resurrection have long been central Christian themes, Christianity is well prepared for the task of letting its old conventional self die, in order to rise again as a facet of a new global religion.7

It was compiled over hundreds of years after the supposed death and resurrection of Jesus by various religious authorities, translated, retranslated, revised and modified thereafter on an ongoing basis.

- Church is More than Bodies, Bucks, & Bricks - Put Service Back into the Church Service - The Death and Resurrection of the Church - Finding Church

It's because of the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus.

He is trying to force us to recognize that in spite of what appears to be orthodox christological affirmations, we are embedded in social practices that deny that Jesus's life, death and resurrection make any difference.

This has been a interesting read... thanks so much to you all; just one note from me and the rest from our heavenly father: it is my sincere hope that people will come to understand that «religion» is «man - made»; it is not now nor has it EVER BEEN from God; it is not about being a «christian»; it is about realizing the need of a Savior and trusting in the atoning death and resurrection of our Lord for the forgiveness and salvation for all mankind.

Deadpool 2 is in theaters now, with character deaths and resurrections in spades.

God's death and resurrection take place in all cultural, political and institutional and personal situations.

It's just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair.

You simply can not refute a single piece of the historicity of the life, death and resurrection appearances of Jesus Christ.

Thirdly, the accounts in the Gospels of Jesus» death and resurrection carry as much the precious air of remembered events as they ever have.

The suffering and death and resurrection constitute an absolute necessity which faces the Son of man.

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).

So, as reworded, you question is: «Is explicit belief in Jesus» death and resurrection required for a lost person to receive eternal life?»

The panel question was: «Is explicit belief in Jesus» death and resurrection necessary for eternal salvation?»

And, of course, we think of the great Paschal Mystery itself, brought to completion through Christ's salvific Death and Resurrection.

John Updike has a beautiful poem called «Seven Stanzas at Easter» where he chides Christians who want to treat Jesus's death and Resurrection mostly as a moral parable rather than as an actual historical event.

Paul implies that it is just such experiences which have been made possible by the cataclysmic death and resurrection of Christ and which will be climaxed by that final renewal, the second coming.

More fascinating than the idea of «primitives» being drawn to the motif of slain gods is that modern «anthropologists themselves, generation after generation, continue to be caught up in the ever - recurring drama of the divine death and resurrection.»

As a result, for Christians Islam was not «true» revelation, not «true» in the same sense as the Torah revealed God through his Law, or in the way that Jesus» death and resurrection fulfilled the Law.

Are the accounts of Jesus» death and resurrection accurate or did whatever scribes wrote the accounts in the gospels sit down with Isaiah's prophecies and decide that Jesus fit the description?

That Christ's death and resurrection remain the power of salvation for all.

As Jeremy points out in his book death and resurrection of the church we all should be pushing out against the gates of hell and dwell at its edges ministering to the same people Jesus ministered to.