Sentences with phrase «of resurrection from the dead»

When the Gospel according to Matthew uses the story of Jonah as a symbol of resurrection from the dead, (Matthew xii.

The restoration of Israel, in fact, will have the character of a resurrection from the dead.

Many honest people find it very difficult to accept the idea of resurrection from the dead.

In the Old Testament and the Apocrypha the hope of a resurrection from the dead has been expressed in a clear but restrained way.

But this means that instead of leaving the demonic kingdom in peace we attack it here, there and everywhere, as witnesses of the resurrection from the dead, as instruments of the Spirit of God who does not share his sovereignty with idols but fetches his originally good creation back to himself in order that a new heaven may appear on a new earth.24

Not exact matches

Both the Christian celebration of Jesus» resurrection from the dead and our sharing in it through baptism, and the Jewish Passover celebration of their deliverance from slavery and oppression are understood in the light of the Exodus.

If you read the article a little closer you will see that the scriptural reference used comes from the Bible's New Testament, where Paul having a discussion regarding the resurrection, asks why would followers of Christ at his time perform baptisms for dead if there were to be no resurrection.

This interpretation is grounded in biblical themes — the vision of the Hebrew prophets of a branch growing from the seemingly dead stump of the Davidic royal line, and, of course, the central Christian affirmation of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

In the earliest period, for example, the appointment of Jesus as son of God came only after his resurrection from the dead (cf. Rom.

I find it ihighly ronic that you not chose a Hindi god of resurrection as a a comparison for a god who didn't raise from the dead, you chose one with some highly similar (and far earlier) story details in common with the Christ story.

I also think that when the church chose «Easter» to celebrate the day Jesus rose from the dead, they did this intentionally because of what the resurrection of Jesus signifies.

That's not about doctrines of «repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.»

There are all sorts of ways even ordinary people can BS a «resurrection» — and besides, Lazarus was raised from the dead, and no one claims he was divine.

12Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David [as far as his human nature went], but who was marked out as the Son of God with power [by the holy Spirit] through resurrection from the dead — Jesus Christ our Lord.»

Acts 17:22 - 31 is not formal teaching, but is logical presentation at a gathering of philosophers for the existence of the one, true God, and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

While there are «pagan» stories of resurrection, they are always stories about deities rising from the dead, not human beings.

And while there are occasional stories within Judaism of someone actually rising from the dead, these people still died later, and are awaiting the final resurrection to this very day.

Now what is ALSO important about Jesus» crucifixion and resurrection is, is that that «He ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES DIED»: «the first day they always had to KILL the passover» and that «Christ ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES THE THIRD DAY, ROSE FROM THE DEAD» --- which is thewhole and the only reason for being of the Christians» Day - of - Worship - Rest and without which Truth «ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES» there «REMAINS», NO «Sabbath Day's - rest for the People of God».

5:14 f.), so through his resurrection all have been raised from the dead, though naturally this event is spread over a long period of time (1 Cor.

Prior to the resurrection of Jesus, no Jewish person believed that the Messiah would die and rise from the dead.

In fact, the «WORK» of God «in the all - exceeding greatness of his Power» is made manifest not only in the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, but also in the BURIAL of Jesus in the WORK of his faithful followers ON «THAT DAY BECAUSE IT WAS GREAT DAY SABBATH» OF THE PASSOVER OF YAHWEof God «in the all - exceeding greatness of his Power» is made manifest not only in the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, but also in the BURIAL of Jesus in the WORK of his faithful followers ON «THAT DAY BECAUSE IT WAS GREAT DAY SABBATH» OF THE PASSOVER OF YAHWEof his Power» is made manifest not only in the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, but also in the BURIAL of Jesus in the WORK of his faithful followers ON «THAT DAY BECAUSE IT WAS GREAT DAY SABBATH» OF THE PASSOVER OF YAHWEof Christ from the dead, but also in the BURIAL of Jesus in the WORK of his faithful followers ON «THAT DAY BECAUSE IT WAS GREAT DAY SABBATH» OF THE PASSOVER OF YAHWEof Jesus in the WORK of his faithful followers ON «THAT DAY BECAUSE IT WAS GREAT DAY SABBATH» OF THE PASSOVER OF YAHWEof his faithful followers ON «THAT DAY BECAUSE IT WAS GREAT DAY SABBATH» OF THE PASSOVER OF YAHWEOF THE PASSOVER OF YAHWEOF YAHWEH.

Thus, like Luke, Matthew embodies in a Resurrection story the conviction of the Church that the raising of Jesus from the dead, as the Lord of all men, meant that its task must be to witness to him and to preach him as Lord to all the nations, although, as Acts shows, the realization that the gospel was meant for all nations, and not only for the Jews, came gradually as a result of further revelation, and could not have been an instruction given at Easter.

Was the Resurrection an event in the life of Jesus, so that we can say that God actually raised him from the dead?

The picture suggests a bodily resurrection of the dead and a transference of the living directly from this world to another.

In this case, baptism for the dead would be our own baptism, representing our passage from being dead in sin to alive in Christ through our full identification with the death and resurrection of Jesus.

His sacrifice upon the cross is our redemption, and His resurrection from the dead is our pledge of eternal life.

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.»

As the Church celebrates the Resurrection for fifty days, the Church also ponders the first evangelization: the primitive Christian community, in the power of the Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history - shattering news that Jesus of Nazareth, having been raised from the dead, has been constituted Lord and Savior for the forgiveness of sins.

but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.

moreover, the moment in which event and community met — the one culminating, the other emerging — was conceived of as the resurrection of this same person from the dead.

Not only was that the first way, it is also the true way, to ask the Christological question just as the true way to ask the question about the Resurrection is, «Must not Jesus have arisen from the dead, since He is the present living center of the church's life?»

This, I urge, is what is being affirmed when we speak of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, «raised from the dead» and «living unto God».

Their way of thinking was in terms of the older Jewish belief in «resurrection of the body» — and hence the only manner in which they could proclaim that Jesus had not been put out of the way through death was to say that he had indeed been «raised from the dead», that he was in and with God, and that those who belonged to him were granted a share in the risen life which was properly his own.

But no supernatural event or resurrection of the dead leads from one of these figures to the next.

It's my resurrection from the land of the dead.

But wherever we stand, Easter is the season where all Christians should join in remembering how Jesus Christ, the light of the world, won a victory over the forces of darkness by his resurrection from the dead.

Peter tells those who had collaborated in the death of Jesus that his resurrection from the dead meant that he had now become the Lord, which means our judge.

Having thus posed all sorts of questions, legitimate enough if we grant the usual position about resurrection, it is now our task to set forth what may be a more coherent and credible way of thinking about «Jesus risen from the dead».

He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection from the dead.

Anyway from Wiki A fourth point of conflict, specifically religious, involved different interpretations of the Torah and how to apply it to current Jewish life, with the Sadducees recognizing only the Written Torah and rejecting doctrines such as the Oral Torah and the Resurrection of the Dead.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, since it took the sting out of death, in their eyes.

The first affirmation we are making when we confess that God raised Jesus from the dead is that the resurrection hope which we hold for all men has already become for us a living reality in the case of this man Jesus.

In the last chapter we explained that the «resurrection of the dead» expresses the hope that the whole of a man's life from beginning to end will be raised before the divine Judgment Seat and be accepted by God as possessing something of value which will give it an eternal meaning.

After all, Paul says that Jesus was «designated Son of God... by his resurrection from the dead».

That is, «When and as you do this, my life and death and resurrection are brought out of the realm of «dead» history into the living present, and I am with you as the One who lived and died and rose again from the dead.»

Mary Magdalene, once possessed by seven demons, became the first witness of Christ's resurrection from the dead, and the first person in history to tell others the full and complete message of Christ's power over sin and death.

The New Testament pictures Jesus as leading a host of captives into the heavenly paradise by his resurrection from the dead (Eph.

This is the earliest material in the Old Testament in which there is an unmistakable description of a resurrection from death to life, and that in spite of the fact that the basic words «rise» and «dead» never occur.

Concerning these he said, «I count everything sheer loss, because all is far outweighed by the gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I did in fact lose everything... All I care for is to know Christ, to experience the power of his resurrection, and to share his sufferings, in growing conformity with his death, if only I may finally arrive at the resurrection from the dead.