Sentences with phrase «death and resurrection required»

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While the death and resurrection of Jesus are central to the Gospel, believing in the resurrection of Jesus is not required for a person to receive eternal life from Jesus.

The audience loved it, but clearly the show demonstrates that more work is required by Christians to help people relate to the resurrected Jesus and to understand exactly why his death and resurrection has implications for us today.

The NT is the death and resurrection of Christ, why He came to earth, His sole purpose for living... Now, this is obviously an extremely short description, and while others could have been more literate in the description, I would suggest you go to any website for further clarification on why the NT was needed, prophesied, and Who it was all about... That is just a start... To be a «free - thinker» requires honest examination of both sides.

The «seeing» that is required results from a personal entry into death and resurrection with Jesus and concomitantly actualizing the divine possibilities that belong to the legacy of the new humanity.

As Christmas and Easter are commonly celebrated by perhaps the majority of celebrants, any latter - day «prophet» might be constrained to cry out, «Thus says the Lord, «I hate, I repudiate your feasts...»» It is perfectly clear, however, that the articulation and, indeed, the very preservation of Christian faith requires the cultic enactment of birth and death and resurrection — this appropriation of the past for the present and the consequent faithful union of time in hope and confidence in the future.

The theologian Richard Lischer offers a brief meditation that, for my money, ought to be required reading for all seminarians who want their ministries to follow a biblical paradigm - a paradigm that Lischer finds in the ministry of St. Paul to the early Christian gentile churches: a ministry that for all its messiness finds as its center the repeated embodiment of the death and resurrection of Jesus in the daily tosses and turns of pastoral work with the people of God.

Jeremy, from what I read in Tom Stegall's article «The Tragedy of the Crossless Gospel» Part 1 and 2 at http://www.duluthbible.org/246451.ihtml (I assume this is the article you are referencing), you DO indeed believe in the death, resurrection, and Deity of Jesus Christ as true facts that were required in God's plan of salvation.