Some have tried, but the explanations get more outlandish and illogical than
simply believing in the resurrection of Jesus.
Not exact matches
As a historian, Marxsen rejects the physical
resurrection not because he does not
believe in miracles, but because the earliest tradition
simply doesn't identify
resurrection with a resuscitated body.
Among evangelicals, so much emphasis has been placed on the doctrine of substiutionary atonement that the focus has shifted away from FOLLOWING the life and teachings of Jesus (
in order to be saved from sin) to
simply BELIEVING in the death and
resurrection of Jesus (
in order to be saved from judgment).
Anyone who
believes in the
resurrection when there is no other place
in recorded history of such a thing happening is
simply not worthy of debating with.
If a person must
believe in the death and
resurrection of Jesus, do they have to
believe that it was by the shedding of blood of Jesus on the cross that sins are forgiven, or can they just
believe that it was
simply His death that was sufficient?
If one were trying to be objective, one could
simply write the factual statement, «Christians
believe that Christ's
Resurrection took place
in Jerusalem,» and leave it at that.
So when I say, I experience revelation, or
simply, I
believe in the
resurrection, talking about sin does not nullify my belief.