Sentences with phrase «only after the resurrection»

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

Verse 28 indicates that only after the resurrection will they be reassembled.

This insight closely corresponds to the disciples» experience — perhaps fully explicit only after the resurrection — that when they were with Jesus they were in some special sense in the presence of God.

The alleged «silence» about the virgin birth from other New Testament authors can not be used as an argument against it since its factuality would have been revealed by Mary only after the resurrection and it did not constitute the centre of the Easter message; Redford even finds hints thatother New Testament authors framed their affirmations to allow for the virgin birth.

Indeed, in some cases it is actually suggested that the disciples recalled the miracle only after the resurrection or, at any rate, spoke of it only then.

Not exact matches

Yes, the earliest manuscripts we have are after His resurrection, but there were earlier writings that were not on durable material, and writings that were destroyed by the Romans and Jewish leaders, but the surviving record captures all the necessary Truths, even though the Gospels cover only a small fragment of Jesus» activities during His time on earth.

Through them all we learn finally what Sukhanov thinks must be the meaning of his life: «And it was only after twenty - three years of mute crawling through the mud» only after he had felt the smooth taste of betrayal on his lips and the chilly weight of thirty pieces of silver in his sweaty palm, only after he had learned about the slow fattening of the soul, the anguish of wasted chances, the pain of love slipping away, the soft, horrifying slide into death» yes, it was only then that the elixir of life was granted to him and his resurrection assured.»

Jesus preached to a lot of people, still after His resurrection only 120 persons gathered to pray in the upper room.

He never thought, after the Greek fashion, of soul as pure being, capable of disembodiment, but spoke, as his Jewish contemporaries did, of future life in terms of bodily resurrection, and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways of conceiving the raised body and its uses in the next world.

Indeed, by the time that Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, only a generation after the resurrection of Jesus, the church in Rome was already mostly gentile.

Only in the obviously late and legendary story of the guard at the tomb (Mt. 27:63) is there any clear indication that a resurrection was expected, and this story is evidently related to controversies between Christians and Jews in Matthew's own day, many years after the event and at a time when the subject of dispute was the empty tomb.

It looks much more as though these texts caught the eye, and were regarded as prophetic, only because it was already known, on the testimony of witnesses of the Resurrection appearances, that Jesus was actually encountered as the living Lord on the third day after his death.

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.

Presumably it is only God's remembrance which constitutes resurrection, and Hartshorne denies the possibility of the ongoing reality of the person after death.

Verse 22 again refers to the resurrection; after this climax there will be no more anxious questions to Jesus, but only faithful prayer to God.

It is clear that the church is comfortable in calling Jesus the Messiah only after his death on the cross and his resurrection and exaltation, At this point he is no longer a prospective military conqueror like David.

The letter to the Hebrews is noteworthy for the fact that it makes only one reference to resurrection, «the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus».28 It elsewhere speaks of Jesus after his death only in terms of exaltation.

Here we are on much firmer ground than in the case of the Gospel narratives, for not only is it the earliest written testimony to the resurrection (written about twenty to twenty - five years after the death of Jesus), but it is first - hand testimony, and most probably the «only written testimony to come from one who could claim to be himself an «eye - witness» of the resurrection».18 Admittedly Paul, on his own admission, was in a very unusual category.

Some rejected all forms of life after death, including the possibility of resurrection; some recognized man's mortality but looked for a physical resurrection as man's only hope, and then only for some; for some the resurrection hope was to be understood more universally and in varying spiritual forms; some thought in terms of the immortality of the soul and then could dispense with resurrection talk altogether.

He knows the earthly life as a normal and even more than usually humble human life, glorified only in and after the resurrection.

It was only later, after the resurrection, that the disciples understood the meaning of his action (John 12:16).

This type of experience, suggested not only in Paul but in some of the Gospel narratives, (E.g., Matthew 28:16 - 17; Mark 16:9 - 12) may have been the beginning of the conviction that Jesus was not dead but alive, and the more physical representations of the disentombment may have been an aftermath, caused by the insistent belief of the Jewish - Christian mind that resurrection was of necessity involved in life after death.

The Spirit had been given to Jesus only, but after the resurrection the Spirit became available for all as a new component of the life of faith.

When Jesus went back to heaven after the Resurrection He said that there were only 2 rules to follow... «Love God and love your neighbor.»

Hazard has had a season of resurrection after the nightmare that the last campaign was, and the likes of Ozil, Kevin De Bruyne and Alexis Sanchez have only carried on from where they left off last season.

The only way to bring Hicks back would be to essentially remove Alien Resurrection from canon as the film is set 200 years after the events of Alien 3.

Point & Clickbait understands that only minutes after North finally disappeared beneath the waves, a Sony executive arrived with a contract for Uncharted 5: Resurrection, but by then it was too late.

Unfortunately, after situated in a new role, many careerists allow their career resumes to sit idly, collecting dust, and only when they are in the throes of job transition or job loss, seek a hasty resurrection and quick - fix of this most integral of career tools.