Sentences with phrase «death and resurrection so»

It is just that rather than seek to obey God, Jonah prefers death and resurrection so that he can worship God in heaven.

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

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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.

Not one question of mine or objection I have about anything — validity of the bible, accuracy of the bible, completeness of the bible, historicity of Jesus life / death / resurrection... it's all so air tight I was ashamed at my unbelief and reveled in the unshakable truth of it all!

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.

When these travelers heard what was being said in their own language, they wondered what was going on, and so Peter tells them all about Jesus, His death and resurrection, and how He is the promised Messiah of Israel (Acts 2:14 - 36).

So you see Keith you are special created for a purpose in this stage of transit test life... as true life is the eternal life that which comes after death on resurrection and Judgment day... God Bless

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, right here, in Scripture, we have examples of people who did not believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, but who did have eternal life because they believed in Jesus for it.

Among evangelicals, so much emphasis has been placed on the doctrine of substiutionary atonement that the focus has shifted away from FOLLOWING the life and teachings of Jesus (in order to be saved from sin) to simply BELIEVING in the death and resurrection of Jesus (in order to be saved from judgment).

Certainly, the death and resurrection of Jesus are central to the Gospel, but since there is so much Biblical information that is part of the Gospel, one does not have to believe the entire Gospel to be justified.

So we can use these aspects of the resurrection story as Christian Myth as long as we use them to point to and symbolize the Christian understanding that Jesus was victorious on the cross and survived death.

It is true that following scripture to the letter is impossible for us, but that is exactly why Jesus Christ's death and resurrection is so important.

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

For one reason, his own interest was so centered in the new life in Christ through our Lord's death, resurrection, and living presence as the Spirit, that he did not focus attention on the details of Jesus» life and teaching.

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

So confess your sins to God and to one another to gain release and victory over them, for you have already been cleansed of these sins through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and your life should begin to match the reality that is already true of you in Jesus Christ.

Even so, death lingers as the necessary and sufficient condition of resurrection; until then, Catholic Christians should and will continue to seek the living among the dead.

As the «outpouring» of the Spirit had come, unsought, in consequence of the life, death and resurrection of Christ, so the «indwelling» of the Spirit was the means by which He continued to form, guide and govern His Church out of the unseen world, where He was now invested with divine authority «at the right hand of God».

So we come to the resurrection, Christ's conquest of death and his life received into God and therefore made available to humankind for evermore.

«After Jesus» failure and death, his disciples stole his body and declared his resurrection in order to maintain their financial security and ensure themselves some standing» So let me get this strait, the disciples slip past the awake guards and the chief priest that gather, remove a large stone without making enough noise to wake those who were already awake.

Of course the true sign that is given all Christians is Christ's death and resurrection, and so we must say that Matthew has in a sense rightly interpreted the full meaning of Jesus» words, but in such a way as to make it harder to get at the original sense of the passage.

Just as in the gospels the most important thing is the incarnation, death and resurrection, while the how of the incarnation, the virgin birth, lies in the hinterland; so also in respect to the doctrine of Scripture, while inspiration is as clearly taught as the virgin birth, it lies rather in the hinterland.»

The «going» is probably the death of Christ and the «coming,» the resurrection, with «the little while» the interval between, though this may be deliberately ambiguous, so that the interval between the ascension and the second coming may also be suggested.

So this rite portrays the new life of the kingdom of God, pointing forward to the death and resurrection.

In so doing, some sacrifice of completeness has been made, but by this means the reader will be able to understand that both these writers have a single purpose: to declare the meaning and content of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Christ sent the apostles to proclaim his death and resurrection to every creature so that, the document continues, «they might accomplish the work of salvation which they had proclaimed, by means of sacrifice and sacraments, around which the entire liturgical life revolves».

Resurrection, however, should not be thought of as reversing that which took place in death, so that death is cancelled out and the original condition restored.

With bodies so juxtaposed, the rites locate our lives and death within the context of Christ's death and resurrection and display that this resurrection is the resurrection of the body.

Jesus died and rose so that we might share in his death and resurrection.

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.

What makes me as well as God angry about, is so - called Christian people, that act like Jesus death burial and resurrection meant NOTHING!

Whereas resuscitation refers to the elimination or reversal of death, resurrection acknowledges the phenomenon of death in all its completeness and then goes on to become the idiom of hope, not so much by ignoring death as by accepting it.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

And so we must finally conclude that resurrection, not death, is the ground of the ethical.

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.

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 one can infer from Jesus» resurrection is that the fountain of life and being is not necessarily frustrated by death, and therefore that we may take courage and hope regarding the deaths of others and of ourselves that we may in like manner be the occasion for some of the creative - death - defeating power which was so magnificently poured out in the case of Jesus.

In this the church is wrong, so far as the death and resurrection of Jesus are understood merely as given facts of history which may be determined and established by evidence.

So, in short, this «evidence» that proves Christianity isn't so much scientific evidence as it is idealistic / philosophical / rhetorical resonance that may or may not occur when an individual encounters the Christian idea of Jesus and the death / resurrection storSo, in short, this «evidence» that proves Christianity isn't so much scientific evidence as it is idealistic / philosophical / rhetorical resonance that may or may not occur when an individual encounters the Christian idea of Jesus and the death / resurrection storso much scientific evidence as it is idealistic / philosophical / rhetorical resonance that may or may not occur when an individual encounters the Christian idea of Jesus and the death / resurrection story.

In it, he not only includes the best explanation of mimetic theory I have read so far, but he then ties in the accompanying themes of the scapegoat mechanism, how Satan casts out Satan through violence, and how Jesus reveals all this to the world through His ministry, life, death, and resurrection.

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.

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«Christianity's good news provides — amply so — for the forgiveness of sins and the wiping away of guilt and the removal of any and all divine wrath through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,» he says.

You could tell someone to believe in Jesus for everlasting life without ever mentioning sin, spiritual death, a substitutionary atonement since these are just fluff or evidences yet they might be a stumbling block so if you just harp on eternal life isn't that neglecting the death and resurrection.

While Jesus» life, death, and resurrection are essential elements in the Christian experience, so are the faith responses of Christians throughout history, and both are part of the gospel in our time.

So I always present the death and resurrection of Jesus when I witness to people.

If one recognizes that death and eternal life in the New Testament are always bound up with the Christ - event, then it becomes clear that for the first Christians the soul is not intrinsically immortal, but rather became so only through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and through faith in Him.

Jesus» anointing by the holy Spirit, and his consequent power over the demons, over diseases, and even over death; his ministry of compassion and help; his death at Jerusalem, through the «envy» and hatred of the «rulers,» that is, the Jewish authorities who denounced him before Pilate and so procured his death by crucifixion as an insurrectionist and disturber; his resurrection on the third day, when he became Messiah or Son of God and entered into his glory; (Cf. Rom.

This is what I've been experiencing in my own way for the past 7 months, death and resurrection, some deeper healing I asked for and then so much more than I ever expected.