The pagan Greeks and Romans cremated their dead, but the Jews
who believed in the resurrection of the body laid their dead to rest in tombs.
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.
It is a myth that
those who believe in the resurrection of the body are insouciant about death.
Not exact matches
When you read the context and see that Paul was speaking on the subject of those
who don't
believe in the
resurrection, but
believed in baptism as Christians, you realize that he was saying that what is the point of baptism if you are only going to end up dead.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then
who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established
in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we
believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed
in us this needs to be, as we come up
in His glories even for a better
resurrection for them
who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many
who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley
in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all
who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ
in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent
in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed
in us: Thank - you Father;
in Jesus Name Alexandria
But I also
believe there's room within Christianity for people like myself,
who don't
believe in a humanistic God that sometimes grants our petitions, or
in the virgin birth, or
in a literal
resurrection.
Rather, the temporal Temple was a dwelling place for the Spirit that now rests upon those
who believe thus the rending of the veil
in the temple and the subsequent near - razing of the temple at Jesus» death (how is that for confirmation by God the Father that it was His initiative and
in Jesus was there the finality of the Great Work of Saving Power upon the latter's
resurrection).
Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace and mercy (totally underserved) for those
who believe in Jesus sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary and His redemptive
resurrection.
Oh, it was the Sadducees that time,
who don't
believe in the
resurrection.
After all, there are many
who believe in the death and
resurrection of Jesus, but don't
believe in Him for eternal life.
In Romans 1:16 the power of God (who is Christ the Righteousness of God) for salvation is for everyone who believes (in the person, work and resurrection of Jesus Christ
In Romans 1:16 the power of God (
who is Christ the Righteousness of God) for salvation is for everyone
who believes (
in the person, work and resurrection of Jesus Christ
in the person, work and
resurrection of Jesus Christ.)
If a person must
believe in the death and
resurrection of Jesus, what was the object of faith for OT people and the apostles
who did not (as far as we can tell)
believe in the death and
resurrection of Jesus?
So, right here,
in Scripture, we have examples of people
who did not
believe in the death and
resurrection of Jesus, but
who did have eternal life because they
believed in Jesus for it.
Everyone and everybody
who has
Believed in Christ Jesus the Son of God and has been baptized into his burial and
resurrection is called a Saint
in the NT.
If a person must
believe in the death and
resurrection of Jesus, must they
believe that Jesus rose
in a glorified, eternal, incorruptible body, and that He went on to ascend into heaven, or can they
believe that He went on to live, grow old, and die again of old age like the others
who were resurrected
in Scripture?
In the light of this profound and difficult thought about the resurrection of believers, and bearing in mind that he believed Christ to have been the pioneer or «first - fruits» of those who will be raised like him, I find it difficult to think that Paul could possibly have believed that Jesus rose from the grave as, or in, a physical bod
In the light of this profound and difficult thought about the
resurrection of believers, and bearing
in mind that he believed Christ to have been the pioneer or «first - fruits» of those who will be raised like him, I find it difficult to think that Paul could possibly have believed that Jesus rose from the grave as, or in, a physical bod
in mind that he
believed Christ to have been the pioneer or «first - fruits» of those
who will be raised like him, I find it difficult to think that Paul could possibly have
believed that Jesus rose from the grave as, or
in, a physical bod
in, a physical body.
It is clear that he is refuting those within the church
who didn't
believe in the
resurrection of the dead, perhaps they hoped to practice Christianity as a way of gaining earthly benefits and no more, as had been common
in many early religious practices.
And I
believe in the bodily
resurrection of Jesus,
who is God.
Believing in the physical
resurrection of Jesus is a 100 % essential article of faith to anyone
who wishes to claim the moniker «Christian» for him / herself.
And what help would it have been to Lazarus to be awakened from the dead, if the thing must end after all with his dying — how would that have helped Lazarus, if He did not live
who is the
resurrection and the life for everyone
who believes in Him?
By the time we get to verse 29, Paul makes a point about those
in Corinth
who apparently were making baptism arrangements for the dead, but didn't even
believe in resurrection.
in verse 12 he addresses some
in Corinth
who believed that there was no
resurrection of the dead.
Therefore those
who can not
believe in the bodily
resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth can not use this as an excuse to reject Christianity.
The Catholic
who feels, with Pope Francis, that the Church should speak more about poverty and less about sexuality is different from the Catholic
who no longer really
believes in the
Resurrection or the Virgin Birth.
Look it really isn't hard to figure out
who is telling the truth and
who is lying just look at the facts smart people can
believe in evolution all they want but at the end of their lives what do they have forward to look to nothing cause they don't
believe in a
resurrection.
In other words, it is believed that after death but before the resurrection, all people who have died are in a state of waiting for the final resurrection and the judgments that follo
In other words, it is
believed that after death but before the
resurrection, all people
who have died are
in a state of waiting for the final resurrection and the judgments that follo
in a state of waiting for the final
resurrection and the judgments that follow.
Modern writers
who say they
believe in the
resurrection, while denying the empty tomb, are using the term «
resurrection»
in a novel sense of their own.
C. H. Dodd from the angle of realized eschatology and his conviction that Jesus
believed the kingdom had already come
in his own person interprets them as originally spoken by Jesus to refer to the crisis connected with his own death and
resurrection.9 Others
who believe that Jesus could not have said these things attribute them to the early church and the error of the evangelists
in presenting them as his words.
While the
resurrection of Jesus is about God making eternal life available to those
who believe in Him for it, this is only a tiny scratch
in the surface of what the
resurrection is really about.
Therefore, it seems possible that this appearance of Jesus might be His appearance to another group of people
who were also waiting for the once - for - all sacrifice to be completed, namely, those
who believed in the coming Messiah, but
who died before His death and
resurrection.
The reason Rabshakeh advances is ridiculous and shows
in effect that the natural man has no understanding, like twentieth - century man,
who finds some Protestants more acceptable because they at least do not
believe in stupid miracles,
in the nativity and the
resurrection!
Then, one day, it hit me: While the
resurrection of Jesus is about God making eternal life available to those
who believe in Him for it, this is only a tiny scratch
in the surface of what the
resurrection is really about.
Indeed for the Greeks
who believed in the immortality of the soul it may have been harder to accept the Christian preaching of the
resurrection than it was for others.
On his missionary journeys Paul surely met people
who were unable to
believe in his preaching of the
resurrection for the very reason that they
believed in the immortality of the soul.
Third, the question of why Mark,
who obviously
believed in the
resurrection, included no appearance of the risen Christ is a natural one raised by the text itself.
25 per cent of British Christians do not
believe in Jesus» resurrectionOne
in four people
who class themselves as Christians do not
believe the
resurrection...
I
believe that what is important about Jesus and the Gospel is the experience that the people
who followed Jesus had, the meaning they found
in his life and death and
resurrection, and consequently the meaning it can have for people today.
(I Corinthians 15:35 - 44)
In the New Testament, therefore, our earliest written testimony to the
resurrection of Jesus comes from one
who devoutly
believed that Christ was «raised on the third day» (I Corinthians 15:4) but
who could not, consistently with his other thinking, have conceived it as the revivification of a physical body.
It sounds like some of them had
believed in the
resurrection, but had turned away from it, but there apparently were others
who had heard about the
resurrection, but denied it as fiction.
Christians
who believe with Cullmann that «the whole thinking of the New Testament is governed by belief
in the
Resurrection» will no doubt join him
in denouncing all attempts, ancient or contemporary, to make of death a natural phenomenon (Cullmann, p. 19).
Thus, the Corinthian Christians are NOT an example of Christians
who had never
believed in Christ's death or
resurrection.
However, I did point out that we do have examples of people
in Scripture
who believed in Jesus and received everlasting life, but did not know about the death and
resurrection of Jesus, and even when presented with these truths, did not
believe them (cf. Matt 16:31 - 32; Mark 9:31 - 32; Luke 9:44 - 45; 18:31 - 34; 24:19 - 26; John 20:9, 24 - 30).
Christians have also
believed that the
resurrection of Jesus points to God's capacity to overcome evil, at least
in the long run for those
who trust God.
To my surprise I realized that the person
who had written these sermons
believed in some kind of physical
resurrection.
Ingest regularly Ephesians 1: 18 - 2:10 which speaks of «His incomparably great power for us
who believe» and how His grace makes us «alive
in Christ even when we were dead
in transgressions, seating us
in heavenly places with Christ, far above all other rule and authority, power and dominion...» Receive God's
resurrection power to give you the strength to fight this creeping addiction.
In my own evangelism, I nearly always refer to the death and resurrection of Jesus as the means by which Jesus secured eternal life for those who believe in Hi
In my own evangelism, I nearly always refer to the death and
resurrection of Jesus as the means by which Jesus secured eternal life for those
who believe in Hi
in Him.
Many people
who believe in the cross and
resurrection of Christ are still lost because they have a works mentality.
His Church is a reference to those
who truly love Him, and follow Him, and
believe in His death and
resurrection for their salvation that washes away their sin
in the eyes of God, come their judgement day.
The third controversy
in the series (Mk 12:18 - 27; Mt 22:23 - 33; Lk 20:27 - 40) revolves about a question raised by the Sadducees,
who did not
believe in the
resurrection of the dead.
The Christian
who believes,
in line with all classical Christianity, that Christ truly rose from the dead knows — whatever elements of truth the doctrine of reincarnation may have on the lower levels of life — that for man the final truth is personal
resurrection.