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Christianity Grounded in the Historical Fact of the Resurrection
Townhall.com ^ | September 12, 2014 | David Limbaugh

Posted on 09/12/2014 8:55:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: caww
EARLY HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
Where We Got The Bible
The Canon of Scripture [Ecumenical]
But Seriously — Who Holds the Bible’s Copyright?
St. Jerome and the Vulgate (completing the FIRST Bible in the year 404) [Catholic Caucus]
When Was the Bible Really Written?
Beginning Catholic: When Was The Bible Written? [Ecumenical]

21 posted on 09/12/2014 9:14:50 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NFHale; hiredhand; OneWingedShark
pingythingy Sirs...

yep, why would they make their lives and deaths in 'the world' so miserable unless they absolutely knew the Truth and saw Him with their own eyes ???

22 posted on 09/13/2014 5:09:03 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: GeronL; Dead Corpse; null and void; HiTech RedNeck; Gilbo_3; BuckeyeTexan
While the Crucifixion is certainly a pivotal moment (Jesus paying the price of Sin), I have come to believe that the Resurrection* is the central point of Christianity — the Resurrection is proof that Jesus is who He claimed to be [God], and that He has life in Himself and it can therefore be reasoned that, as the God of Life, He can [and will] raise us from the dead at the appropriate time, and that He can forgive sin — in short, the Resurrection means that Our God Lives.


* Note that the Resurrection makes zero sense if Jesus did not die at His crucifixion.

23 posted on 09/13/2014 5:20:51 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Which brings me to one of my hobby horses:

We already agree that our calendar is wrong, off by anywhere from 2 to 16 years, depending on who’s doing the reckoning, and further in error because of the absence of a year zero.

The more fundamental point is that God did not intend us to mark His years by the birth of Jesus.

If He had intended this we would have a Biblical fixing of the date.

Further, the day of Jesus’ birth is unremarkable as all men are born.

However, very few return from the dead, that event is remarkable, and it is the defining moment of Christianity, the very moment of proof that his sacrifice was not in vain. And the Bible gives a precise reference for when this happened!

Clearly this was the date the calendar was supposed to start!

For extra points, this makes our calendar off by anywhere from 17 to 30 years. That makes this something like Holy Year 1997 to Holy Year 1984, giving us anywhere from 3 to 16 years to get our affairs in order before the real end of the millennium...


24 posted on 09/13/2014 7:05:55 PM PDT by null and void (Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
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To: OneWingedShark

It has double meaning (at least). Not just raising from physical death as we know it, but from spiritual death, our default fallen condition that we were all born in. The first one will be some time in the future. The second one can be seen happening NOW.


25 posted on 09/14/2014 12:29:34 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: null and void

“The year of our Lord” of church tradition (and not all of them are agreed) is approximate to our knowledge but it does now mark an era that clearly is in the church age. It testifies that Jesus MATTERS. Big time. That’s why atheists and other nonbelievers in Christianity are all agog to call it something like “Christian Era” if not “Common Era.”


26 posted on 09/14/2014 12:32:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: sauropod

He is Risen Indeed!


27 posted on 09/14/2014 12:34:57 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

And He raises US, indeed.


28 posted on 09/14/2014 12:37:27 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

alleluia


29 posted on 09/14/2014 12:38:53 PM PDT by Mom MD
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