resurrection

In Matthew 12, Jesus makes a remarkable statement about his death and resurrection: Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign; and so no sign will be given...

The offering of Isaac is one of the most widely misunderstood and mis-preached stories in the Bible, which is frustrating, because the book of Hebrews tells us exactly what is going on. Perhaps most notably, Soren Kierkegaard interpreted this story to mean that true faith is a “teleological...

Let's start with what God says to Moses in Exodus 4:22 - Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn. So I said to you, ‘Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.”’ This is a...

We are not going to preach the cross better than the Apostles did. But if we use the template for preaching that they used, we find a very clear pattern that is remarkably different than the dominant way the cross is preached today. How did the Apostles preach the cross? Let’s look at two...

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not...

Consider this silly thought experiment. You are out for a morning walk with your dog. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the air is crisp, it’s a great way to start the day. You come to your favorite part of your route, a trail that goes through some woods. Shortly after entering the...

1) The Problem/Solution Narrative: According to penal substitution, the central problem with humanity is that we deserve wrath, and the central solution is that we avoid it because Jesus suffers this wrath in our place. Problem: deserving wrath / Solution: avoiding wrath But in the Bible, sin...

Someone noted that no “Easter” threads had been started. So, here’s one. (Oh, and the “popular” refers to God, not man.) Any way you slice it, scholarship says, “Christ is risen!” “He’s risen indeed!” So argues Gary Habermas. (NOTE: There is more than one link in this OP.) “Gary Habermas'...

Special Resurrections - Cases in Scripture, of the past, and of one to come before the Great General Resurrections (Righteous/ Damnation) & Translations (taken alive without experiencing death). What does the Bible (KJB) teach on these things? Let's take a good look.

Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. John 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of...

The bedrock of Christianity is the resurrection of these mortal bodies from the dead... As I heard one preacher say that the body that goes in the grave is the same one that is coming out... Immortal and sinless to die no more... The same God that created the whole world out of nothing will...

On all the debate threads about the Ten Commandments and the Sabbath Commandment, the Law of God written on the heart under the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:31-33 -- what is the ONE point that in the modern age almost all who post agree upon? Answer: Saturday is the 7th day - the Bible Sabbath...

The resurrection of the dead is one of the principle doctrines of Christianity — in particular the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave. Infidels and modernists seeking to refute Christianity have fabricated numerous stories in the attempt to explain away the empty tomb and deny...

THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST By John Henry April 8, 2000 Part One SCRIPTURE TEXT John 11:25-26: "Jesus said ..., 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. Believest thou...