Sentences with phrase «general resurrection of the dead»

A general resurrection of the dead is something orthodox Christians across the centuries have long anticipated.

It would be neither immortal nor resurrected in the full sense of the general resurrection of the dead.

Paul speaks of the general resurrection of the dead as one which involves both the dead and the living in a transformation into what he called «a spiritual body».

The cogency of that argument depends wholly upon the first - century expectation of the general resurrection of the dead in terms of which Paul and the early Christians interpreted their experience of the risen Christ.

This might be no more than a battle over semantics, were it not for one very real stumbling block: the interim period between the death of individuals and the general resurrection of the dead.

Not exact matches

When the last things refer to the life of the world or history as a whole, they customarily include the second coming of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, general judgment (eliminating an interim state and resulting in heaven or hell), and the consummation of the world.

By contrast, Paul makes the resurrection of Christ dependent upon a general concept of resurrection: «For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.

More than that, relational thought can provide an alternative framework for interpreting and expressing more coherently the originating beliefs, especially regarding the interim state, the resurrection of the dead, and particular / general judgment.

At one extreme there are many conservative Christians, both in sects and in the major communions, who, because of their belief in the authority and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, still look expectantly to a future point in time when the world will come to a sudden end and when, at the Judgment which follows, there will be a general resurrection of all the dead in some bodily form.

Since the Jewish belief in the general resurrection was the necessary forerunner for the Christian affirmation of the resurrection of Jesus, we shall turn first to the meaning for our day of the words in the Nicene Creed, «I look for the resurrection of the dead».

Wolfhart Pannenberg urges us to adopt, in its essential outline, the anticipation of a general resurrection from the dead as the only adequate context within which to judge the evidence.

Corresponding to the resurrection of the dead, as depicted graphically by the Jewish Scriptures, there is a general judgment at the end of the world.

(1 Cor 15:12) he is arguing from the principle of faith that Christ has risen from the dead to the conclusion of the general resurrection by mounting a kind of syllogism.