Sentences with phrase «earthly life began»

It is clear that theological interest in Jesus» earthly life began with the death and resurrection and moved backward.

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By God's grace, a very small minority then began to realize what Jesus had accomplished, and they spread the Truth at great risk to their earthly lives.

Now what Mark sets out to do, on the basis of the current tradition, already and indeed from the beginning interpreted by faith on the basis of experience, is to show that Jesus, instead of becoming Messiah at his resurrection, was already Messiah during his earthly life.

The belief in the pre-existence of Jesus was not the end result of the supernaturalizing of the earthly life (never complete except in Docetism), but the beginning of it.

In this same light, we can begin to see how a relational view might interpret the intercessory role of Jesus» earthly life, a topic that will be discussed in chapter seven.

When we notice, then, that the Fourth Gospel begins not with the baptism and birth, but with the eternal Logos, who «was in the beginning with God,» it is not unnatural to decide that belief in the pre-existence of Jesus was the culmination of a process of exalting the earthly career which began with the fact of the resurrection and moved backward step by step till not only the whole of the earthly life was included but a divine pre-existence was affirmed as well.

But the earthly career was important not primarily because of what it was in itself but because of the place which it, considered as a whole, had in a great story of salvation which began in heaven, had its center in the human life of Jesus, and returned to heaven for its ending.

In due time, this being became man; then after fulfilling his earthly life he died, rose again, and was exalted by God to a place in heaven even higher than that which he had enjoyed at the beginning.

For the resurrection was the moment when not only the spiritual lordship of Jesus began but when also the whole earthly life was «transfigured» before his disciples — the moment when the event they had witnessed and were still witnessing was realized to be one whole and to be in its wholeness an act of God.