«I don't know how my planting a tree today will relate to the wonderful trees that will be in God's recreated world... but I know that God's new world of justice and joy, of hope for the whole earth, was launched when Jesus came
out of the tomb on Easter morning.»
Not exact matches
We will reflect
on the woman who anointed Jesus at Bethany (Thursday), the suffering
of Mary
of Nazareth (Friday), the women who waited through a long Sabbath before heading
out to the
tomb on Sunday morning (Saturday), and the story
of Mary Magdalene (Sunday).
Based
on this tall tale when Jesus died the «saints» arose from the dead but stayed put at their graves until about 45 hours later when Jesus came back to life and came
out of his
tomb.
Since they set
out to abolish such later innovations as the venerating
of Islamic saints and visiting their
tombs, the Wahhabis came into direct conflict with the Shi'ites, who focus so much attention
on the mausoleums
of their imams.
Rome (CNN)- The beatification
of Pope John Paul II this Sunday will probably be the biggest event in Rome since his death in April 2005, with at least 300,000 people expected to turn
out for the ceremony and more than 2 million to take part in beatification - related activities in Rome, including a vigil service
on Saturday in Rome's Circus Maximus and visits to John Paul's
tomb.
It is significant that the earliest Gospel, Mark, uses the term «after three days» consistently in the prediction passages, but where these are quoted in Matthew or Luke the phrase has been changed to «
on the third day».23 The change can be explained by saying that between the writing
of the first and the later Gospels the story
of the empty
tomb had become more widely known, and the phrase «after three days», as a dating
of the resurrection event, fell
out of use.
He was strongly opposed to the teaching
of some
of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom
of resurrection as an allegorical description
of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death
of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the
tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility
of such a hope
on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed
out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state
of preservation.
clumsily inserted into the Mary Magdalene story» probably
out of «a desire to make the apostles as well as a woman witness
of the empty
tomb».35 But the emphasis is now no longer
on the emptiness
of the
tomb but
on the way the linen cloths have been left lying.
Furthermore, the assertion that the women only realized when they were already
on the way that they would need help to roll away the stone and gain access to the
tomb implies a degree
of thoughtlessness quite
out of the ordinary.
Yet, Protestant / evangelical Christians will believe as absolute fact, that a first century dead man walked
out of his
tomb after three days
of decomposing, ate a broiled fish lunch with his friends, and then levitated into outer space based
on the testimony
of... one..., possible, eyewitness» testimony!
Jesus came into the world naked and died
on the cross naked and walked
out of the
tomb naked.
On the way
out of town, we stopped at St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery No. 1 in Uptown, where my mother's family
tomb is located.
The 2013 reboot took a new direction narratively, instead
of throwing us into the role
of tomb raider Lara Croft, we had to play
out her growth as a character from her normal beginnings, and how she grew into her famous role through adverse conditions and the challenges that faced her
on the island the game took place
on.
Eidos Montreal has a few months to sort a lot
of this stuff
out, so I'm not calling for an evac just yet, but I remain convinced that my favourite bits
of this game will be those when Lara is
on her lonesome in some mysterious
tomb, pulling the odd lever and jumping from pillar to pillar.
In the demo, Lara Croft embarks
on her first
tomb raiding expedition as she seeks
out the secret
of immortality.