Sentences with phrase «literal meaning of the resurrection»

We have probably long since given up any attachment to his miracles, discounted the virgin birth and begun to question to literal meaning of the resurrection.

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Resurrection does not abolish death for it does not mean the literal restoration of a person to his former conscious existence, any more than the resurrection of life from the dying seed means the literal restoration of the orResurrection does not abolish death for it does not mean the literal restoration of a person to his former conscious existence, any more than the resurrection of life from the dying seed means the literal restoration of the orresurrection of life from the dying seed means the literal restoration of the original seed.

By the fundamentalist Protestant type we mean those churches which hold to the verbal inspiration and hence the literal inerrancy of the Bible, and which defend as of vital importance certain creedal dogmas, notably the virgin birth, the blood atonement, the physical resurrection of Christ, and his visible second coming.

For some, de-extinction means the literal resurrection of long - lost species through whole - genome cloning, while for others it's about conferring the traits of extinct animals on closely related living species to create approximations.