Questions tagged [resurrection-of-jesus]
Central tenant of Christianity, that Jesus Christ rose from the dead following his crucifixion
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What is meant by the Jehovah's Witness statement "Jesus was dead, forever dead."?
The following is pulled from an answer to this question: According to Jehovah's Witnesses, In What Way is Jesus Human.
It would appear, then, that the Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus had his ...
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What are scholarly books for and against the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus?
In order to have a well-rounded understanding of the arguments for and against a historical resurrection of Jesus, what would be a comprehensive list of must-read scholarly books defending its ...
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How do you say "My Lord and my God" in Aramaic or Hebrew?
Thomas said, "O Κύριός μου καὶ ὁ Θεός μου" (koine Greek), "My Lord and my God" (English). What would he have said in Aramaic (Hebrew?) in John 20:28? Would it relate to Adonai and ...
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Does the body of Jesus breathe oxygen in heaven?
Before Jesus died on the cross, his body was functioning as of that any other human being where he was breathing to stay alive and then he took his last breath and died. Then rose from the dead and ...
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Do some deists believe in Resurrection of Christ? [closed]
I once met one guy on Youtube who says he believes that Jesus was so moraly perfect (secular language to say sinless) that He got attention of the Supreme Being (i.e. God) and that this Supreme Being ...
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Which are the OT prophesies referred to in the Nicene Creed in relation to Jesus' Resurrection?
St Paul writes in 1 Cor 15:4 that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. We recite the verse in the Nicene Creed also. Now, we see Jesus mentioning his death and ...
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How can I know that I believe the resurrection of Jesus? [closed]
How can I know that I believe the resurrection of Jesus?
Many Christians say that the belief in the resurrection of Jesus is the necessary condition of being a Christian. However, I don’t know whether ...
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If I underwent baptism when I was an adult, but If now I am no longer certain that Jesus revived, then am I still a Christian? [closed]
When I was in my 20s, I was baptised.
Now I am my 30s, and I am no longer certain that Jesus revived.
(Positive) The following is a reason that I can believe that Jesus had revived:
In Bible, his ...
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Where did Jesus go and what did he do between His Death and Resurrection?
Without going into the specifics of three days and three nights or some configuration, where and what did Jesus go and do between the time of His death/burial and His resurrection, if anything?
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Where did Jesus go and what did he do between His death and resurrection? (non-Trinitarian perspective)
How do non-Trinitarian Christians respond to the question where did Jesus go and what did he do between His death and resurrection?
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Is the resurrection of Col 3:1 the millennium?
The two verses bear many of the same referents. If this were the case then many of what I refer to as "delusions" regarding the end times can be shown to be without merit.
Col 3:1 ¶ If ye ...
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The resurrection & Deut 13 - If a prophet says "Let us worship another god" - Do NOT follow him, even if he gives a sign/miracle
It seems that Christian apologetics very much rests on the historical veracity of the resurrection. That is, if we can verify the resurrection, than we have an objective rationale to believe in the ...
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How does the Catholic Church reconcile the resurrected body pictured by St Paul in 1 Cor 15 vis-a-vis the narrations in Luke 24 and John 21?
We read in Luke 24:31 (NRSVCE) how Jesus walked with two disciples on the way of Emmaus post-Resurrection and joined them for a meal:
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and ...
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Are there alternatives for the resurrection and stolen body hypothesis? [closed]
According to the stolen body hypothesis, the body of Jesus was stolen from the tomb. Alternatively, Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead.
Besides these hypotheses, are there ...
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According to Emanuel Swedenborg, who is the man Jesus, born of a woman, who died and then was resurrected?
An article titled "The Lord" at the website of the Swedenborg Foundation states that Emanuel Swedenborg believed
“that the Lord is God from eternity and that he himself is that Lord who was ...
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Where was the blessed Virgin Mary on Jesus' resurrection?
We know that the bible tells us that Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene first when Jesus was risen in
Mark 16:9 RHE
9 But he rising early the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalen; out ...
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Is the Feast of First Fruits rather related to the Start or the End of the 50-day-count?
I have seen scholars associating the start of the 50-day-count to a "Feast of First Fruits", but when reading Lev 23:6-14 and Exo 34:18-26 I rather see this as a small ceremony related to ...
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How do Jehovah's witnesses respond to the historical evidence for the physical resurrection?
Jehovah's Witnesses propose a non-physical resurrection. How do they respond to people like William Lane Craig or Gary Habermas who make evidentiary based arguments for the resurrection?
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When, and by whom, did what we now call Easter Sunday first become known as Resurrection Sunday?
During the course of my search into the origins of ‘Resurrection Sunday’ I found some interesting information, but mainly to do with the name ‘Easter’:
The naming of the celebration as “Easter” seems ...
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How long was Jesus in the tomb?
Christians commonly celebrate Good Friday as the day that Jesus was crucified, and Easter Sunday as the day that Jesus rose from the tomb. Most relevant verses in scripture say that Jesus would be in ...
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How do Christians who believe that Jesus preached to the dead in Sheol justify reversing the chronological order of verses 18 & 19 of 1 Peter 3? [closed]
1 Peter 3:18-19 has been one of the most controversial passages in the Bible throughout time. And for good reason. I'd like to address a particular interpretation of the passage, however.
1 Peter 3:...
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Where was Jesus's soul during the three days of His death?
There is a three day period between Jesus's death and resurrection. Where does the Catholic Church teach Jesus's soul was during that time?
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How does Jesus' death and resurrection save humanity? [closed]
Time and again we hear that Christ died for our sins, or that Christ died so that we could be saved. But I've never understood how exactly the two are connected? In what way does the death of Christ ...
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Why doesn't hallucination, common burial, legend, and gullibility explain the rise of Christianity (rather than the Resurrection)? How is this wrong?
What scholarship refutes the following view of history? How do we know this alternative to the Gospel is incorrect?
Jesus is executed by the Roman empire after preaching a loving humanism based on ...
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What is the New Testament argument against Gnosticism?
I'm aware that the rise of Gnosticism was after the New Testament was written – but it would seem that a lot of the ideas on which it was built were floating around at the time. (Particularly Greek ...
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What is the significance of what Jesus ate after his resurrection?
Is anyone aware of any special symbolic significance of Jesus eating specifically fish and honeycomb while showing his disciples he was not "a spirit" when he appeared to them (and somewhat scared ...
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According to Biblical Unitarians, who resurrected Jesus - the Father or the Son?
In John 2:19-22 Jesus tells the Jews that he will perform a miraculous sign by raising the temple of his body in three days.
"Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise
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Who resurrected Jesus - the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit?
In John 2:19-22 Jesus tells the Jews that he will perform a miraculous sign by raising the temple of his body in three days.
In John 10:18 Jesus says he has authority to lay down his life and ...
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What was Van Til's view on the use and validity of historical proofs for the resurrection?
Cornelius Van Til was the pioneer of presuppositional apologetics, and was one of the founding members of Westminster Theological Seminary. The defenses of faith that he developed sought to apply the ...
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What is the historical basis for the claim that there were hundreds of eyewitnesses to the resurrection of Jesus?
I've heard, in several informal situations, claims to the effect that there were hundreds of eyewitness to the resurrection of Jesus. That many saw him and even interacted with him over the span of ...
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How is the resurrected Jesus related to the Trinity?
The Doctrine of the Trinity is affirmed by the Catholic Church and more in general by the large majority of Christian denominations, Orthodox, "mainline" Protestant etc., with some relevant ...
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What did Paul mean when he called Jesus the "firstborn from the dead"?
note: All Scripture quoted is from the King James translation.
I have noticed that Paul referred to Jesus as the firstborn numerous times:
Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: ...
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Did John the Evangelist make a mistake in counting the post-resurrection apparitions of Jesus?
We see Jesus making his post-resurrection apparition before the disciples on various occasions: first, to the disciples on their way to Emmaus (Lk 24: 13-35), second, to the disciples in the absence ...
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Did Jesus transform into spirit form after Resurrection
In the 40 days after the Resurrection and before his Ascension, Jesus appears and disappears to people, including his disciples.
He also is not recognizable by some of his followers including Mary ...
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Can Anselm's reasoning for the Incarnation be adapted to the Resurrection?
In Cur Deus Homo, Anselm provides an argument primarily in natural theology (as I understand it, anyway) for the proposition that the divine nature assumed a human nature for itself, without confusion ...
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Jesus' Resurrection occurred before angel rolled back the tombstone?
Many exegetes claim, without proof, that Jesus resurrected before the angel rolled back the stone, in order to show that he passed through it as he could walk through doors or as he was born out of ...
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What is an overview of arguments for and against the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus? [closed]
What is an overview of arguments for and against the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus? Was Jesus' resurrection a historical fact? What do scholars and historians have to say about all this? Is ...
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How does Catholic Church reconcile the time of and the manner in which Jesus' resurrection was disclosed to Apostles?
We read in Mk 16:1-8, the the Angel's instruction to the women who visited the tomb of Jesus on the day of his Resurrection, and its outcome:
When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary ...
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Are there any secular historical references to the natural phenomena that occurred at the crucifixion and resurrection?
The Scriptures record that there was three hours of darkness during the crucifixion of Jesus. This is a pretty significant meteorological event. Furthermore, the morning of Jesus' resurrection, the ...
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Do The Original Houses of Numbers Still Exist?
Are there still leaders of these households or are they obsolete?
Reuben: 46,500
Simeon: 59,300
Gad: 45,650
Judah: 74,600
Issachar: 54,400
Zebulun: 57,400
Joseph:
Ephraim: 40,500
Manasseh: 32,200
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How do we know that death has no mastery over Christ?
Romans 6:9 says:
For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
The logic here says that since Christ died and was risen, now he ...
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Was Jesus resurrected after or {within} three days of his death? [duplicate]
Was Jesus resurrected after complete 3 days, or he resurrected in the third day?. I mean if he had been resurrected in the third day, this means that he had spent less than 72 hours before his ...
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Are the gospels enough to convince one of the divinity of Christ? [closed]
This is a follow-up to my previous question.
Thomas had received the message from his fellow disciples that Jesus had risen from the dead. Being the skeptic that he is, he then rejected their ...
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Are there Christians who believe that Jesus does not have a physical body right now?
I've researched about this topic online and I could only find one Christian website so far that affirms this belief.
https://www.bible.ca/d-Jesus-body-now.htm
Does anybody else know if a particular ...
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How similar was the resurrected body of Jesus to his physical human body?
Different Christian denominations have differing theologies of the resurrection: what it means for us, how it happened, and so on. What do the main bodies of Christian belief (Orthodox, Catholic, "...
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Can pastors at Evangelical denominations teach that Jesus was resurrected with an invisible and immaterial body?
Murray Harris has views of the resurrection body of Jesus which fall within the statement of faith for the Evangelical Free Church in spite of the fact that the body is not a human body.
Another ...
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Was there silence in heaven when our Lord and Saviour was crucified?
Revelation 8:1 says that when the seventh seal was opened "there was silence in heaven for about half an hour." This speaks of a dramatic pause before the next series of plagues (NIV Study Bible ...
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Is There Any Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus like some papers or something? [duplicate]
Is there any historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus like some papers or something or from some sources that are not from the bible .
I am asking this because an atheist said to me ...
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How could Jesus get through locked doors?
Since Jesus tomb was empty, he obviously arose in his material body, and throughout the Bible references to shutting the door at night, is the same as us locking the door at night since it is obvious ...
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Did the conversion of Paul occur before or after the Ascension?
According to the Bible, the conversion of Paul occurs when he is walking on the road to Damascus and suddenly has an encounter with the resurrected Jesus. My question is, did this encounter occur ...
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