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Clear searchNot escape from the body, but its redemption
The Hope of the Resurrection Not escape from the body, but its redemption Many people imagine the Christian hope as an endless disembodied existence: the soul released from the body, leaving the physical wo…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
Is the Beatific Vision the Whole Christian Hope? Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation The beatific vision is the Christian teaching that the redeemed will see God and find their perfect happiness in Him. It draws upon magn…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
Was Christ Begotten at the Resurrection? Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son “This day have I begotten thee” appears to be applied to Christ’s resurrection. Did Jesus become…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
Four Difficult Texts for Pretribulationism The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day A cumulative case should be exposed to the passages which appear least friendly to it. Four objections deserve particular attention: Second Thessalonians 2 app…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…for a temporary appearance. He assumed a complete human nature, died in that nature, rose bodily, ascended bodily and remains the man Christ Jesus. Amelius recognised the words while reversing the story. He read John, but he did not allow John to correct the philosopher. John giv…
Read article →Michael J. Vlach · Biblical theology · 2023
I recommend The New Creation Model because it gave me a clear, sustained account of the resurrection body and the renewed creation as parts of one coherent purpose. Vlach is especially helpful in resisting the idea that Christian hope means escape from the physical world. He tr…
View recommendation →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
Is the Pretribulation Rapture Without Biblical Basis? A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation In an article published by the Christian Research Institute, Hank Hanegraaff argues that the pretribulation rapture has no biblical bas…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…postolic text. It plainly does. The rapture is the living believer's participation in the resurrection The most important clarification is that the rapture is not a rival to the resurrection. It is the experience of believers who are still alive when the resurrection occurs. Paul…
Read article →Irenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
…tal of Gnosticism contains powerful discussions of the true humanity and deity of Christ, bodily resurrection, the goodness of creation, and the unity of the Old and New Testaments. He is also an important early witness to a future earthly kingdom: his premillennial passages show…
View recommendation →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…s have been associated with disruption at brain regions which integrate vision, touch and bodily location. Low oxygen, rising carbon dioxide, anaesthetic drugs, abnormal temporal-lobe activity, REM-sleep intrusion and dissociation have all been proposed as contributors to portion…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…Gospel declares that Jesus was crucified under Pontius Pilate, died, was buried and rose bodily from the dead. His death is not a peripheral detail which can be removed while leaving Christianity substantially intact. It is the historical event through which Scripture says God d…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ed what nearly everyone else has missed. He speaks often of leaving this world, seldom of bodily resurrection, and hardly at all of the local church. Baptism and the Lord's Supper seem peripheral. Ordinary Christian service appears dull beside the latest prophetic timetable. Othe…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…the Love Philosophy Could Not Imagine “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” — Colossians 2:9 A conversation with my son brought the strangeness of the incarnation freshly before me. Christians have heard the words so often that we can cease to feel their fo…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…he clouds with power and great glory (Matthew 24:29-31). Rome's siege did not produce the bodily appearing of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead, or the kingdom conditions required by the wider prophetic programme. AD 70 vindicated Christ's warning and anticipated the fin…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…sible component. It asks whether He possessed the whole reality of human life—or only its bodily surface. What does “a body hast thou prepared me” mean? Hebrews places these words on the lips of the Son as He comes into the world: “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he sait…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…e living are caught up, and both meet the Lord in the air. Matthew 24:31 does not mention resurrection, transformation, or a caught-up company. Angels gather the elect after the public manifestation as the kingdom is about to be established. The similarities show that both belong…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…t in precisely that way. John 6:54 is officially connected with Eucharistic reception and resurrection, while contemporary apologists argue that Christ’s words must be read literally because He intensified them and permitted His hearers to leave.[2] Our task is to test that claim…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…one. It rests upon who Christ is and what God did in public history through His death and resurrection. Experience must answer to truth. Truth cannot be inferred simply from the strength of experience. Do the arguments become stronger together? The informed Muslim may object that…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…nd ever” (Hebrews 1:8). Paul says that in Christ “dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). Jesus is not the Father. He is nevertheless everything a creature cannot be: eternal, Creator, worthy of divine honour, and fully God. The Holy Spirit is personal a…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…brews 4:15). His deity remained complete: “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). His humanity was also complete. He is not half God and half man, nor a third kind of being produced by blending the two. He is fully God and fully man. Natures Do N…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…story eventually became known, demonstrating the reality of God’s promise and the coming resurrection. The passage even records disagreement over their number: “(Some) will say: They were three, their dog the fourth, and (some) say: Five, their dog the sixth, guessing at random;…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…hat the body is not evil, that Jesus Christ truly suffered in the flesh, and that He rose bodily from the grave. I value ordered worship, accountable leadership, Christian discipline and fellowship that extends beyond the preferences of the individual. I do not dream of Christian…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…rance of Allah known as dhikr, rhythmic chanting, regulated breathing, music, swaying, or bodily rotation. The Mevlevi order is especially known for its whirling ceremony. Other traditions employ collective recitation and increasingly intense rhythm. The sought or resulting condi…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…e Father's glory, gives His life as a ransom, is crucified under Pontius Pilate and rises bodily from the dead. Islam denies the decisive claims of that Gospel. The usual answer is that Christians no longer possess the original Injeel. Jesus received one revelation, but Matthew,…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…ised in Isaiah 32, but they should not be reduced to intellectual or moral renewal. Their bodily character receives decisive confirmation in the ministry of Jesus. The land also receives healing: “For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.” — Isaiah…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…rucified for our sins. Islam denies that He was crucified. Christianity says that He rose bodily from the dead. Islam has no resurrection of Jesus from a tomb because it denies the death which preceded it. Christianity says that the one God eternally exists as Father, Son and Hol…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…There is a biblical example of the difficulty in Athens. When Paul preached Jesus and the resurrection, some hearers concluded that he was proclaiming strange gods. They heard Christian proclamation through the categories available to them. Paul then declared the Creator, His rel…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…national Israel. Paul asks the decisive question Romans 9-11 was written after the cross, resurrection, ascension, and formation of the Church. If those events meant that Israel had ceased to possess a distinct identity in God's purpose, Paul had the ideal opportunity to say so.…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…people gathered at Christ's return, but the discourse does not identify this event as the resurrection and transformation Paul reveals for those "in Christ". Clue one: the setting is Judea The discourse begins at the temple. The disciples point to its buildings; Jesus foretells t…
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