Sentences with phrase «death and resurrection if»

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

But what is special about the death and resurrection if we don't know about Jesus being God, or about God being holy, or about our own sinfulness, or about death being the penalty for sin... and on and on it goes.

Not exact matches

If you truly knew or understood the significance of Christ's sacrifice (death and resurrection)... you would realize how truly God LOVES the world (people)... You... & Me.

If there had been no resurrection then why baptize??? You would go under (symbolically death and burial) but never come up.

If you want PROOF from God that He loves us and wants to save us all you only have to look at the Miracle of Jesus; His birth, life, death and Resurrection.

If possible, it would also be good to symbolize death, burial, and resurrection.

But we can have worlds more freedom, if we allow our hearts to enter something of the realm of the death and resurrection.

If a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, what was the object of faith for OT people and the apostles who did not (as far as we can tell) believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus?

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.).

If I am to be convinced that belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus are necessary today to receive eternal life, those are the questions I need answered.

If you want to be delivered from the devastating and destructive consequences of sin (see Sin), then you need to follow the ways, teachings, examples, and instructions of Jesus, and especially what He showed us through His death, burial, and resurrection.

If a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, must they believe that Jesus rose in a glorified, eternal, incorruptible body, and that He went on to ascend into heaven, or can they believe that He went on to live, grow old, and die again of old age like the others who were resurrected in Scripture?

If a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, do they have to believe that it was by the shedding of blood of Jesus on the cross that sins are forgiven, or can they just believe that it was simply His death that was sufficient?

He said that he always talks about the death and resurrection, but that if someone believed in Jesus for eternal life before he had the chance to tell them about the death and resurrection, he thought they would probably go to heaven, but wasn't sure.

If the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ tell us something profound about the mystery of who God is, they also reveal the depths of our own identity as sinners set free.

If the bible has significant errors, then almost everything is up for debate including the ministry, miracles, death, and resurrection of Christ.

If we can understand how Jewish people were saved prior to the death and resurrection of Jesus, then we can begin to answer how other people around the world may be able to receive eternal life before they have heard about Jesus.

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

And still, even if the Old Testament has some fables, the historical reliability of the Gospels, and specifically the death and resurrection of Jesus, is pretty firmly establishAnd still, even if the Old Testament has some fables, the historical reliability of the Gospels, and specifically the death and resurrection of Jesus, is pretty firmly establishand specifically the death and resurrection of Jesus, is pretty firmly establishand resurrection of Jesus, is pretty firmly established.

Don't let us assume that Jesus» sacrifice would be of any benefit for us, if we are not ready to let us change through the divine power of Jesus» death and resurrection.

If we want become able to overcome our sinfulness, we have to refer to the Rebirth where we get metaphysically connected with Christ's death and resurrection.

If belief involves this kind of seeing, this kind of interpreting and reorientation, then we can more readily appreciate why the believer is accustomed to use the imagery of illumination and the still more violent imagery of rebirth, of death and resurrection.

If other Gospels had been canonized, Christianity perhaps would not have anywhere near as strong of a focus on the very exclusive belief that one must embrace the death and resurrection of Jesus in order to be saved.

Also, the paperback version of The Death and Resurrection of the Church will be available in a few weeks, if you prefer to read books that way (I always prefer to read paper versions of books).

And we all know that His Death and Resurrection continues to sanctify us experientially if we keep believing (1 Cor 15:And we all know that His Death and Resurrection continues to sanctify us experientially if we keep believing (1 Cor 15:and Resurrection continues to sanctify us experientially if we keep believing (1 Cor 15:2).

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

It is true that both the gospels and the speeches of Peter and Paul in Acts give important testimony as to what the apostles taught about the Christian life and proclaimed about the meaning of Jesus» own life, death, and resurrection; yet both the gospels and Acts were written, not by apostles, but by later disciples, and their evidence on particular points stands in need of confirmation, if possible, from the apostles themselves.

But even if Christ had not said these words — merely the fact that He, who is «the resurrection and the life» (11:25), comes to the grave, is not this a sufficient sign that this sickness is not unto death, does not the fact that Christ exists mean that this sickness is not unto death?

A more faithful question needs to be asked, even if it can not be reduced to an acronymn: «What does Jesus Christ, because of his unique life and death and resurrection, uniquely enable his disciples to do?»

Even if we were to grant (for the sake of argument only) that God could or would intervene in this way in earthly affairs, God's resurrection of this one person can not logically support the likelihood of salvation for the rest of us: (A) It can not prove that God is able to save us from death and grant us eternal life; (B) it can not guarantee that God is interested in doing this; and (C) it does not even show that God will forgive our sins.

Personification of the Logos belongs not to history but to mythology: the immense significance of this way of expressing that power of God which men sensed in Jesus — even if they sensed it only dimly before his death and resurrection — is perhaps brought home to our modern minds by Norman Pittenger's fine paraphrase «the Word or Logos or Self - Expressive Activity of God.

If Christ's Resurrection means that death really is overcome, then it seems easy and natural to ask a departed loved one to pray for you.

If it really has been «done to death,» then I can think of numerous topics that have been done many times more than this topic (at least where I'm at and interact): faith, hope, love, prayer, fellowship, giving, good works, christian unity, salvation, grace, faith healing, being culturally relevant, the gospel, the resurrection, religion vs. relationship, tithing, worship, reverence, christian music, legalism, old vs. new covenant, Paul's conversion, miracles, gifts of the spirit, sign gifts, tongues, nativity, the disciples, crucifixion, materialism, mysticism, new age, atheism, i could probably list about 50 more if I thought about iIf it really has been «done to death,» then I can think of numerous topics that have been done many times more than this topic (at least where I'm at and interact): faith, hope, love, prayer, fellowship, giving, good works, christian unity, salvation, grace, faith healing, being culturally relevant, the gospel, the resurrection, religion vs. relationship, tithing, worship, reverence, christian music, legalism, old vs. new covenant, Paul's conversion, miracles, gifts of the spirit, sign gifts, tongues, nativity, the disciples, crucifixion, materialism, mysticism, new age, atheism, i could probably list about 50 more if I thought about iif I thought about it.

Living a good life is NOT evangelism, I saw a sign that said «share the gospel, use words if necessary», «if» I thought, you can not share gospel which is Christ death and resurrection, without words unless you are a very talented mime artist.

If there were ANY way for you work or be good enough to deserve a good relationship with the true God... then there would have been no reason for Jesus» death and resurrection.

Concerning these he said, «I count everything sheer loss, because all is far outweighed by the gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I did in fact lose everything... All I care for is to know Christ, to experience the power of his resurrection, and to share his sufferings, in growing conformity with his death, if only I may finally arrive at the resurrection from the dead.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spiResurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spiresurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Hans von Campenhausen also agrees that «this expression may simply be used to underline the reality and apparent finality of the death itself, and say nothing beyond this».21 We may take the reference to the burial in this early formula to mean simply that there was no doubt about the death of Jesus, a necessary fact to establish if the wonder of the resurrection was to be fully appreciated.

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.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

If YOU and I do not die we do not partake in Christ's death and resurrection.

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.

If you ever doubt or wonder about Jesus» love for you, just remember these two words which tell us so much about our own sin, the heart of Jesus, and the complete forgiveness and love offered to us through His death and resurrection.

What if Jesus was nailed to a cross, suffered a near - death experience, but was revived and / or survived (he wouldn't be the first, nor the last, to survive a Roman crucifixion) and personally interpreted his experience as death and resurrection?

But this would be meaningless if the significance of the death of Christ rested only on the interpretation placed upon it by the disciples and were not even in the life of Jesus related as an act to his resurrection»)

If the disciples and Peter follow the risen Jesus to Galilee where he is initiating a second career, they will not only «see the Lord» as he continues his ministry among the marginalized masses, they will also participate in his resurrection, even as they participated in his death; and consequently, like him at the beginning of his career in the narrative world of Mark's Gospel, they will be called into being as God's beloved daughters and sons and simultaneously be empowered to actualize the possibilities of the reign of Christ.

Here in communion with the brethren we come nearest to the Resurrection Body of Christ; and so Paul writes in the following Chapter 11 (a passage which has received far too little consideration) if this Lord's Supper were partaken of by all members of the community in a completely worthy manner, then the union with Jesus» Resurrection Body would be so effective in our own bodies that even now there would be no more sickness or death (1 Corinthians 1 1:28 - 30) a singularly bold assertion.

If you can not accept special creation, you can not accept the Genesis Flood account, nor the Gospels account of Jesus» death and miraculous resurrection.

The Hebrew passage isn't teaching that a person can lose their salvation, but that if it were possible to lose your salvation you could never get it back since it would mean Jesus would have to be crucified all over again which is not going to happen because His death and resurrection are sufficient to save and keep a person saved for all eternity.