Blessed are those who believe without seeing.
Posted on 04/21/2019 5:37:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
This thread has wandered off in so many directions...
Why the snort?
Snarkiness is beneath you, Larry.
St. Elmo’s fire printed it....
It’s so common to try to explain God in physical terms.
Jesus IS physical! ‘Does a ghost have flesh and bones as you see me have?’
“Dwelt in a tent”
It’s really not complicated....Jesus Christ ‘conquered’ sin ‘and’ death... and is alive forevermore. We worship a risen, living Savior, who has promised to give immortality to all who believe on His name.
The Christ of God, in whom “the fullness of God lives in a human body” Colossians 2:9....The Bible teaches the ‘bodily’ resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is ‘not’ a spiritual resurrection, as some would have us believe. Jesus’ very body was raised by God from the dead.
Jesus promised,.... “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die” (John 11:25-26).
The Bible always links sin and death. It says “the sting of death is sin” (1 Corinthians 15:56) and “through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12).
The resurrected Christ also lives today in another very real sense: in the heart of every true believer. Though He is in His glorified body in Heaven, yet through the Holy Spirit He dwells in the heart of every Christian.
Beautifully iterated, m’Lady.
Jesus Himself said His resurrection body was one of “flesh and bones” (Luke 24:39; 13:37)...The body that emerged from the tomb was the exact same body that went in the tomb. He also showed His crucifixion scars on his hands and side on two occasions because of doubt....
If Christ did not rise in the same physical body placed in the tomb, then the Resurrection loses its significance as evidence for His claim to be God.
Humanity was made in God’s “image.” Does that mean we are of the same stuff as God? No. We remain creatures, feeding on God forever.
That body, plus additional properties.
No other diety I’m aware of sent his only son to earth to live and die as a man to show he could too endure what his creations are asked to
And die in a hard way
Imagine Allah or Thor or Zeus or the various Hindu supernaturals
This is what makes Christianity unique and most plausible
At least to me.
Nobody could dream up such a mythology
It’s not a religion that offers living reality reward either
In fact Christianity is not particularly concerned with this life other than as a path to salvation
The be nice good works sorts are trying to undermine that
They will fail
Indeed!
Heck; I believed in Jesus even BEFORE there was a Shroud!
Blessed are those who believe without seeing.
Do ANY of the other religions have a Savior?
Are there any that don’t teach working your way to perfection / salvation? There are even several looks-like-chrsitianity- but-isn’t which teach working or striving to obtain salvation.
Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, and of course Josephus.
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