Sentences with phrase «story of the resurrection»

And the resurrection of an individual man was not absolutely unheard of, even though stories of resurrection were usually questioned by the educated.

Had nothing else been ever been added to the report of St. Mark — and for the longest time nothing was — Mark would have left us with the most troubling story of the resurrection.

I urge, then, that talk about human destiny through stories of resurrection, like that about the «last things,» is a way of saying with the firm conviction of Christian faith in the cosmic divine Lover active in the event we name Jesus Christ that we can put our trust in God for both time and eternity, whatever we might wish to add about our own subjective participation in the divine life.

What persuades me that the Easter stories of the Resurrection appearances are true and that something objective happened to those people, which was not mere hallucination, is first of all the context in which they seem, according to the records, to have taken place.

I hope this little story of a resurrection inspires you (like my Dad inspired me) to think twice before you lose faith in that old car, that weathered piece of furniture, that old tractor, or even an old, abandoned cottage.

The reason they could not know is that Paul made up the story of the resurrection long after the supposed event.

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

And they are stories of resurrections that took place immediately after the death.

If we discover evidence that the disciples did steal Jesus» body and that they made up the story of the resurrection, a considerable amount of Christian testimony would be thrown into doubt.

On this latter point various views were bound to develop, and these views, as well as the legendizing tendency, which is never absent from a growing tradition, were certain to affect the way in which the story of the resurrection was told.

As the main body of the Gospel is left, the story of the resurrection is reduced to terms so simple that only the finding of an empty tomb and the word of a young man that Jesus was not there remain; Jesus himself is not seen and the three women who found the tomb empty are too terrified to tell any one.

He concluded that the disciples, distraught by the unexpected end to the ministry of Jesus, stole his crucified body, concocted the story of his Resurrection and turned the message of Jesus into the message about Jesus.

Some people reject the story of the Resurrection on the ground that human experience testifies overwhelmingly to the finality of death.

Although she appears to have been a critical part of Jesus» early ministry, Mary Magdalene's extraordinary faithfulness shines most brightly in the story of the Resurrection.

But the story of his resurrection is greatly exaggerated.»

I'm not sure who said that Christianity is «nothing without» the resurrection, but it certainly depends on how one interprets the story of the resurrection.

If the story of the Resurrection comes from four anonymous books, three of which borrow heavily from the first, often word for word, how do we know that the unheard of, fantastically supernatural story of the re-animation of a first century dead man, actually happened??

Here is the story of her resurrection

Don't expect to be spiritually enlightened with this story of resurrection either.

Easter 2016: A Story of Resurrection, Rebirth and Celebration Easter is a Christian festival celebrated in many different ways.

Bandai Namco has released the 2nd trailer for its upcoming action RPG God Eater Resurrection, showing scenes from the story of the