Posted on 04/15/2006 11:23:15 AM PDT by churchillbuff
Do you believe that Jesus physically rose from the dead?
Academic double-talk and babbling nincompoop alert.
Do you believe this based on contemporary evidence, or based on what you wish were true?
Or do you have other reasons?
Do you believe this based on contemporary evidence, or based on what you wish were true?
Or do you have other reasons?
HE has risen bump!!!
The tomb was empty. nuff said
"Did Jesus really rise from the dead?"
Yep.
If you look through the New Testament, you will notice that a majority of the Books were written by the Apostle Paul.
He had been hunting and killing Christians, until his meeting with the Holy Spirit of Christ.
After that meeting, and his acceptance of Christ, he spent his life spreading the Word throughout the known world.
One need only believe, and read the Bible, to know that Christ died and rose again, to save us.
May God bless you and yours.
And you and yours.
Yes He did. Praise the Lord!
No, that's the "neutral" description of life with a resurrection body. Note the academic *does* affirm Christ's physical presence post death.
I'd strongly recommend a book to you called "Who Moved the Stone?" by Frank Morison. He was fixed on the same question and decided to see what the supporting evidence actually was. He actually set out to disprove the resurrection so as to "liberate" what he saw as the genuinely good things Christianity had to offer from a "fairy tale" that hurt its credibility.
Why would "contemporary" evidence beat "eye-witness" evidence?
The miracle of Lazarus
Lazarus is also a man who lived in the town of Bethany ("Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha", John 11:1). The sisters are immediately identified: "Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill." So the sisters sent word to Jesus that the one he loved was ill. Jesus tarried where he was, and when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days, and Martha reproached him. (However, it should be noted that Jesus had only delayed his travel by two days, implying that even if he had set out immediately, Lazarus would have died.) When Jesus assured her Lazarus would rise, she took his meaning for the resurrection on Judgment Day, to which he replied, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die" (11:25–26 KJV). In the presence of a crowd of Jewish mourners, Jesus had the stone rolled away from the tomb and bid Lazarus to come out, and so he did, still wrapped in his grave-cloths.
The miracle, the longest coherent narrative in John aside from the Passion, is the climax of John's "signs" and leads directly to the decision of Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin to kill Jesus.
According to this gospel, many Jews visited Lazarus after this and believed in Jesus in part because of Lazarus' resurrection. The Gospel says no more of Lazarus.
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And it feels good to say so in print, in public.
God's Easter blessings on all y'all.
He has Risen bump!
He sure did.
Praise God we have life everlasting because Christ rose from the grave. Our God is a LIVING god! Happy Easter, everyone!
These reliable witnesses testified to seeing the risen Christ having touched him, talked to him and have eaten with him...truth is tested in such a way..
When three reliable witnesses testify to a thing than it is as they say...
The events of Good Friday through the Ascension of the risen Christ are all well documented as was his life..by reliable witnesses
In the end one either has the faith that comes only as a gift from God or one does not..
He is risen indeed...He is God...He is Messiah...
Life is short and all men meet him and all knees shall bow and He will either acknowledge you to the father or He will deny you...
Pray that He comes into your life and saves you and the little ones God entrusted you to keep...
In the end the most horrible words a person could hear is the denial of Christ upon his own soul...yet there are more horrible words the denial of Christ upon the children and grandchildren a man was responsible for...to hear them denied because you denied them...has to be worse..
If such a thing is possible...
To all here...have a blessed happy Easter if only for the time God gives us to spend with our loved ones before it is over...
He Is Risen Indeed...Let those who the Lord over all has blessed with the grace of faith to believe unto death..testify unto that faith...that gift given freely by a God who loves sinners and died for us that we might have eternal life through Him.
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