I would love for one of you supposed «adults» who believe in imaginary things like satan and hell and men
who rise from the dead to answer this.
all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only
who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»
From time to time she notes that «we can no longer believe» in traditional Judaism or Christianity - that is, in the notion of a personal God, or a Savior
who rose from the dead, or personal immortality in the familiar sense.
And I had never noticed that about the others
who rose from the dead also, but did not appear until after Jesus did.
The guy
who rose from the dead and left for us the witness of his apostles to whom he had given full authority to speak in his name.
Horror icon Boris Karloff — who had already played Frankenstein's Monster the year before — played Imhotep, an evil ancient Egyptian priest
who rises from the dead when his grave is disturbed and pursues a woman whom he believes is the reincarnation of his ancient love.
Not exact matches
The
dead - cat metaphor seems to be a popular one (it is taken
from the investment business, where traders
who are skeptical about a stock's
rise will say that even a
dead cat bounces a little when you drop it).
In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by
rising from the
dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those
who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!
To make me
rise from the
dead / And repeat the hope of those
who lived before me.»
The bottom line is if you don't believe that a man
who was his own father
rose from the
dead to make up for the mischief of a talking snake you are going to burn forever, for God is love.
I know the Jesus of the Bible exists in myth and legend, but as for a man - god
who died and
rose from the
dead - seriously?
Let me get this straight: You believe that a couple of thousand years ago an invisible man in the sky impregnated a virgin girl in the middle east, had a half - god / half - man son
who traveled around doing magic tricks, and then
rose from the
dead and is now constantly watching all of us to see if we'll get pie in the sky when we die?
Yes of course, they are far more confused than people
who believe in verbally expressive faming shrubbery, snakes with the ability to speak, women
who get pregnant miraculously, people
who can do the aqua moon walk and zombies
rising from the
dead.
A common argument I often hear
from those
who try to prove to me that Jesus
rose from the
dead, is that because the tomb where Jesus was supposedly buried was empty the only logical conclusion was that he must have
risen.
But one awaits the return of the Messiah
who died and
rose from the
dead and is recognized as Lord and Son of God; the other awaits the coming of a Messiah, whose features remain hidden till the end of time; and the latter waiting is accompanied by the drama of not knowing or of misunderstanding Christ Jesus.
But Abraham speaks over the head of the rich man, over the heads of the Pharisees, in what sounds like a direct address to us church types
who claim faith in a certain Galilean raised
from the
dead, «If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone
rises from the
dead.»
Jesus Christ was a mythical figure
who did not
rise from the
dead.
Jesus comes quietly, unnoticed, more gently than one might expect an unjustly tortured murder victim
who has just
risen from the
dead to come.
None of it was making any sense to them, John says, because no one
who was there that morning understood the scripture, that Jesus must
rise from the
dead.
Jesus healed the lepers, gave sight to the blind, healed the paralized, exorcised demons
from possesed men, brought back Lazarus from the dead, JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND BROUGHT BACK HUNDREDS OF OLD TESTMENT PEOPLE WHO HAD DIED WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH... YES PEOPLE CAME BACK WITH JESUS AND WALKED ALL OVER JERUSALEM... THE GRAVES OPENED UP AND PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THEM... AND THE WORLD SAW
from possesed men, brought back Lazarus
from the dead, JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND BROUGHT BACK HUNDREDS OF OLD TESTMENT PEOPLE WHO HAD DIED WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH... YES PEOPLE CAME BACK WITH JESUS AND WALKED ALL OVER JERUSALEM... THE GRAVES OPENED UP AND PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THEM... AND THE WORLD SAW
from the
dead, JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND BROUGHT BACK HUNDREDS OF OLD TESTMENT PEOPLE WHO HAD DIED WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH... YES PEOPLE CAME BACK WITH JESUS AND WALKED ALL OVER JERUSALEM... THE GRAVES OPENED UP AND PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THEM... AND THE WORLD SAW
dead, JESUS
ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND BROUGHT BACK HUNDREDS OF OLD TESTMENT PEOPLE WHO HAD DIED WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH... YES PEOPLE CAME BACK WITH JESUS AND WALKED ALL OVER JERUSALEM... THE GRAVES OPENED UP AND PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THEM... AND THE WORLD SAW
FROM THE
DEAD AND BROUGHT BACK HUNDREDS OF OLD TESTMENT PEOPLE WHO HAD DIED WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH... YES PEOPLE CAME BACK WITH JESUS AND WALKED ALL OVER JERUSALEM... THE GRAVES OPENED UP AND PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THEM... AND THE WORLD SAW
DEAD AND BROUGHT BACK HUNDREDS OF OLD TESTMENT PEOPLE
WHO HAD DIED WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH... YES PEOPLE CAME BACK WITH JESUS AND WALKED ALL OVER JERUSALEM... THE GRAVES OPENED UP AND PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THEM... AND THE WORLD SAW IT.
The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father
who is the Father of all those
who follow Jesus because he is his Father
who has raised him
from the
dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the
risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those
who have faith without sight is greater.
We
who are left alive until the Lord comes shall not forestall those
who have died; because... the Lord himself will descend
from heaven; first the Christian
dead will
rise, then we
who are left alive shall join them, caught up in clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
If he is
who he claimed to be, if he did
rise from the
dead, then we can choose to believe him when he says that this life is not the end.
A personal meeting that touched my heart and gave a direction and a new meaning to my existence»), theology («Jesus
rose from the
dead: not to be triumphant over those
who refused him, but to certify that the love of God is stronger than death, the forgiveness of God is stronger than any sin») and his perspective on grace («God's mercy has no limits if he
who asks for mercy does so in contrition and with a sincere heart»).
JESUS is the only one
who died for all mankind,
rose from the
dead, and now sits in heaven getting ready for His great return.
It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all powerful invisible god somewhere in the universe
who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and
rose from the
dead three days later (this same person was born of a virgin), or that someone spoke to god via a burning bush, or that one old man,
who lived to be 900 years old, built a boat that held two of every animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?
Their way of thinking was in terms of the older Jewish belief in «resurrection of the body» — and hence the only manner in which they could proclaim that Jesus had not been put out of the way through death was to say that he had indeed been «raised
from the
dead», that he was in and with God, and that those
who belonged to him were granted a share in the
risen life which was properly his own.
After only the briefest interval — so Mark implies all along — ; his followers were convinced that he had
risen from the
dead — not as one more resuscitated Israelite, like the daughter of Jairus, nor as a saint
who had entered glory, like Moses or Elijah, but as no one less than the transcendent, heavenly Messiah, the «Son of Man»
who was to come on the clouds of heaven and hold the last judgment upon all mankind.
He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he
rose again, and appeared to his disciples,
who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection
from the
dead.
Life with Jesus
risen from the
dead was an experience that began here and now; and since it was God
who had thus raised Jesus
from the
dead, Christian believers were sure that life in Christ was indestructible, both for him their Lord and for themselves as those already united with him.
Noah's Ark = the story of Gilgamesh, Christ = at least a dozen deities
who were born of a V irgin, performed miracles, was condemned to die,
rose from the
dead..
Though he choked on the word «ecumenical,» Sanders emphasized the inter-denominational character of Evangelicalism, which he portrayed as a gathering of those
who still believe that Jesus
rose from the
dead, and
who found themselves together on the curb after being expelled
from liberal churches.
Just as in so much of Paul's language the Jesus
who was raised
from the
dead must be understood in terms of spirit, so also this remains the most satisfactory, if not indeed the only, category in which to understand the nature of the
risen Christ.
That is, «When and as you do this, my life and death and resurrection are brought out of the realm of «
dead» history into the living present, and I am with you as the One
who lived and died and
rose again
from the
dead.»
We agree that justification is not earned by any good works or merits of our own; it is entirely God's gift, conferred through the Father's sheer graciousness, out of the love that he bears us in his Son,
who suffered on our behalf and
rose from the
dead for our justification.
«We
who are left alive until the Lord comes shall not forestall those
who have died; because at the word of command, at the sound of the archangel's voice and God's trumpet - call, the Lord himself will descend
from heaven; first the Christian
dead will
rise, then we
who are left alive shall join them, caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.»
We're talking about talking serpents, the parting of bodies of water with the wave of a hand, an impossible Ark, a vengeful hate - filled man - made god,
rising from the
dead, killing people
who work on sunday or selling our daughters into slavery.
the only solution to sin is the blood of Jesus and faith in Him
who is
risen from the
dead... I am witness of his resurrection...
in the law and the prophets; it is proclaimed once again by Christ the Lord, and continues to be proclaimed by the Church teaching in the name of the One
who has
risen from the
dead.
Yep, the Bible teaches that Jesus, the second part of the Holy Trinity
who form the only One God in three persons,
who was eternally existent, and uncreated, just as the Father, came to earth and died on the cross to make propitiation for the elect, that He
rose from the
dead, and that He will come again.
C. H. Dodd has pointed out that among early Christians there were evidently men
who, like the writer of I John, did not move forward
from an experience of Christ
rising from death to the Christ seated at the right hand of power, but backward
from their acknowledgment of the latter to the conclusion that therefore he had
risen from the
dead.
Jesus is the ONLY ONE
who actually took on human form and
rose from the
dead.
Look at it this way: whether or not there was actually a guy named Jesus
who died on a cross and
rose from the
dead some two thousand years ago, and whether or not you or I believe this story to be historically accurate, it doesn't really matter.
I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord;
who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he
rose again
from the
dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the
dead.
But the son,
who also is God,
rises from the
dead.
You have to know the one you are believing in, namely Jesus Christ, the Son of God
who was crucified on the cross for your sins died and
rose again
from the
dead and will return one day.
I chose to put my faith in Jesus, the
risen Savior and Son of God
who historically supported his claims through many miracles and ultimately, through His resurrection
from the
dead.
About this business of being convinced if someone should
rise from the
dead: We Christians do have someone
who has
risen from the
dead, Jesus Christ.
There was widespread discussion as to
who Jesus really was, and some said, «A prophet, like one of the prophets of old» or «one of the ancient prophets»
who had
risen from the
dead (Mark 6:15; Luke 9:8).
Four electric guitars, an electronic keyboard, three young women holding mikes, leading us in a praise song that begins, «Oh how I appreciate you, Jesus»: do these words and this music fit Jesus, divine Son of God
who dwelt among us, was crucified and
rose from the
dead?