Sentences with phrase «death and resurrection take»

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

Not exact matches

To believe in God, His word and Jesus Christ's life, death and resurrection for your sake... takes FAITH.

Below, we discuss the path taken by Jesus from El Elyon's Throne in the twelfth realm, to the earth realm, his death, resurrection, and ascension.

Taking Jesus death and resurrection as figurative as opposed to literal can have dire consequences on how we understand what God did for us as humanity.

Except for John the Baptist's reference to Jesus as being the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world Jesus and His disciples didn't publicly preach His coming death, burial, and resurrection.

It was this conviction, which lay at the heart of the oldest Christian tradition, that Mark took for granted when he advanced the further step of assuming, and endeavoring to demonstrate, that Jesus was already Messiah, already the «Son of Man,» during his earthly life, and before his death and resurrection.

Once His sacrificial death and resurrection occurred those in the OT who had faith in God had their sins taken away, but not before then.

God allowed the OT saints to «write checks» through the animal sacrificial system, but it was Jesus» death and resurrection that put the money into the account and actually took away their sins.

Holy Week takes us to the Resurrection, when death is defeated and the words «ashes to ashes and dust to dust» are no longer final.

For this story takes place before Jesus» sacrifice, death and resurrection.

Its effect upon one who takes it seriously is well expressed by Paul, in a passage where he has defined the meaning of the Christian life precisely in terms of the Gospel, as sharing Christ's sufferings, being conformed to His death, and experiencing the power of His resurrection.

The new event is the birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus: the interpretation of this new event, which takes up the old interpretation into itself in a reinterpretation, is that Jesus is the Christ, who gives his people rest from the bondage of sin, a final rest the Israelites could not obtain under Joshua when he brought them into Canaan.28

We have seen that it was because of the recognition of the real and all - embracing character of death that the hope of a general resurrection took such firm root in later Judaism.

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.

8 The view of exaltation reflected here is not unlike the traditions concerning Elijah and Moses, except that this one took fully into account the death of Jesus on the cross, and hence exaltation implied resurrection from the dead.9

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.

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.»

I take that to mean His birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension; His teaching and everything he stood for.

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.

It is the community of loyalty, devoted memory, and faith, which answer to the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; and therefore it is the community in which alone the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as a revelatory event took place.

The show takes some liberties that should feel comfortable for all believers, such as recreating imagined dialogue between Thomas and the other disciples in the days between Jesus» death and resurrection.

Only he who apprehends with the first Christians the horror of death, who takes death seriously as death, can comprehend the Easter exultation of the primitive Christian community and understand that the whole thinking of the New Testament is governed by belief in the Resurrection.

Neither the saying on the Cross, «Today you will be with me in paradise» (Luke 23:43), the parable of the rich man, where Lazarus is carried directly to Abraham's bosom (Luke 16:22), nor Paul's saying, «I desire to die and to be with Christ» (Philippians 1:23), proves as is often maintained that the resurrection of the body takes place immediately after the individual death.

«Words like incarnation and resurrection started taking on new meaning for me when I thought of someone's death giving me a new life,» he said.

Other Christians, even if they are hesitant to affirm a physical resurrection, will surely balk, if they take the New Testament seriously, at following Kübler - Ross's chatty recommendation that «it might be helpful if more people would talk about death and dying as an intrinsic part of life, just as they do not hesitate to mention when someone is expecting a new baby.»

If death precedes resurrection, then while taking some of the actions suggested in this book may cause your church to die and disappear (again, the physical structure with the building and programs and paid staff), the true church of Jesus Christ may actually rise up to new life, light, vibrancy, and faithfulness!

In baptism we «take on an identity shaped by the overwhelmings of creation, death, resurrection, and the Holy Spirit.

She wrote for CT on the prayer of the five widows, disappointment in Jesus, a lesson from the Resurrection, and what happens when death takes away a loved one.

In the rosary she takes us with her from the advent of the Annunciation, through the life, death and resurrection of Christ, to the contemplation of the glory which Christ bestows on his saints, with Mary again its most perfect recipient.

So just because someone claimed to be John, the beloved disciple, recounting an eyewitness account of the life, death, and supernatural resurrection of Jesus, should we take him at his word??

Jesus, whose love is more extravagant than we can measure, came to sacrificially die for us so that we might gain through His grace what the Bible defines as eternal life through His death and resurrection: to know the only true God and take hold of this present life by the direction and abundant strength afforded to us by through the Spirit.

After the death and resurrection of Christ there is no longer need for the «Tent» or sanctuary because Christ's risen body has taken its place.

Sometimes the motifs were those of late antiquity, but they were predominantly drawn from the Hebrew scriptures and include such scenes as Daniel in the lion's den; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being delivered from the burning fiery furnace; and the story of Jonah, which ends in triumph and which the early church took as a foreshadowing of the death and resurrection of Christ.

His death is the nobly lost battle that is prelude to final victory in the war; when the resurrection comes and others take up the struggle for justice on Christ's behalf.

What Paul apparently did was to take isolated rites of the early communities and relate them more fully to the death and resurrection of Christ.

Kozol's uniquely passionate take on urban schools and urban schoolchildren has been documented in such books as Death at an Early Age and, more recently, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope.