Thankfully for the resurrection I know Christ.
If the resurrection is false we’re screwed because then Jesus is not who He said He was and we’re still responsible for the penalty of our sins.
That’s how important it is.
Since we all are going to bow our knee to the guy who was resurrected, it probably has some importance.
One issue regards the hope we have given us that one day we will be provided a resurrection body which is immortal.
For Christians, there would never be any good news or salvation.
All things good come from Him.
Blessed Happy Easter everyone.
He is Risen!
The text in Greek says so = thus, in this manner (outos-Gr.) and not "so much" ('osos -Gr.), check a concordance.
The point of the text is that God's love for the world (Cosmos -Gr.) is that he sent his Son to die for – Believers, literally "all the believing ones."
Believers are those who see (by faith the kingdom) John 3:3, and enter, (by faith) John 3:5. The cause is being born again. The order is that one is born again and therefore believes.
Jesus teaches that being born again is a spiritual resurrection of the soul John 5:25, a work of God not dependent on man. That those who come to him by faith do so because they are given to come by God's grace and drawn by it. John 6:65, 44.
So, do you believe in the resurrection of dead souls unto faith and salvation by means of faith, which is what Jesus teaches, in like manner to the resurrection of the body, which is also not dependent on man or is your confession incomplete?
Simply enough: The Truth of His resurrection will determine how many of us spend eternity.
Before, folks really didn't know what happened to the dead. Even those who were raised from the dead, like the Widows Son with Elijah, died again. So there was no certainty.
With Christ's Resurrection and bodily return to heaven, we know positively that there is life after death. And, moreover than that, since Christ is Still Alive (at the Right Hand of God the Father) that there is Eternal Life.
The only question will be the quality of Eternal Life. With Faith in Christ, it is Eternal Life, Love and Joy. Without Christ, it really is not life, not love, not joy and worse.
Better is life in Christ, follow Him.
12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 15 Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; 17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.The resurrection is the start of the New Creation right in the middle of the Old Creation.
I Corinthians 15
The Risen Lord... The Author of MY Salvation... how can I even begin to say how important that is.
To deny THE RESURRECTION is to deny JESUS and the FATHER. One cannot be a CHRISTIAN and deny CHRIST. HE IS RISEN... and HE will win... I have read THE BOOK and I KNOW! HAPPY EASTER MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
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..and life is worth the living because He lives...
It is the central act of history, of the universe and all creation. The Resurrection literally changes everything!
HE IS RISEN. MARANATHA!
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen