They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. If you are in the United States, one resource for finding a church near you is 9 Marks. Christianity is different It makes a claim that an event happened in space and time: Jesus Christ died and then was raised from the dead.
This would have profound implications for our understanding of the universe, existence, morality, God, and everything else There are things about Christianity that are confusing or hard to accept as true But in math, if we start with axioms that are solid, then we can prove easy theorems based on those axioms, and then use those easy theorems to prove counterintuitive, seemingly false theorems We can believe the hard theorems because we have confidence in the axioms and the easy theorems To me, the resurrection of Christ is the fundamental theorem of Christianity.
If we can gain confidence in this, then this provides a foundation for us to have faith in the rest of the claims of Christianity. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. The oldest surviving fragment of John is dated to A. The oldest surviving complete copy of the New Testament dates to A. Other ancient books typically have much longer gaps between composition and our earliest copies. Almost all can be explained by some type of unintentional scribal mistake, such as poor eyesight.
Very few variants are contested among scholars, and few or none of the contested variants carry any theological significance. Modern biblical translations reflect this scholarly consensus where the variants exist, while the disputed variants are typically noted as such in the translations.
Blood and water came out, consistent with the spear rupturing the pericardial sac that surrounds the heart. Edwards et al. The disciples were unlikely to be lying about seeing the risen Jesus The apostles had little incentive to lie Why do people consciously lie?
Recanting may have saved his life. An apostle who saw that other apostles were being killed because of their faith would have been strongly tempted to leave the Christian community None of the apostles recanted their story But could there be no record of recantation because there was a cover-up by the church? Probably not. But at the time, the testimony of a woman was not admissible in Jewish courts. To the extent that we abandon our call to love our neighbors as God in Jesus loves us, Christianity fails to be the true religion.
The truth of Christianity leads us not to a position of pride over other people or even other religions. Rather, we are called into a humble way of life that seeks to embody the love of Jesus through the Spirit so that the whole world might come to know God, the creator of heaven and earth, in and through Jesus Christ.
For the truth of Christianity is not that we somehow found our way to God, but that God, in Jesus Christ, came and found us. Apart from Jesus, the God of heaven and earth is unknowable. But every religion makes the similar claim, that it is only through their religion that God becomes known to people.
Of course, as Christians, we reject their claims of inspiration, just as they reject our claims. For the same reasons that Christians reject all other religions, all other religions reject Christianity. I see a dilemma here. Every religion is acknowledged as true by its adherents through faith. For instance, as to Christianity there is no objective evidence that Jesus is God come to earth as a baby through an immaculate conception to save sinners.
Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense. By Francis Spufford Mere Christianity. Lewis Simply Christian. Wright I'm new to the Christian faith What do Christians believe? Prayer and growing in Prayer What is the Church? More about God More about Jesus What is faith and belief?
I'm new to the Christian faith. What do Christians believe? Prayer and growing in Prayer. What is the Church? God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
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