Paul's Resurrection Of Jesus

Longenecker, Bruce W. The New Testament. The Lost Letters of Pergamum. Orlinda, TN: PhD and Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews. 2002.

The New Perspective on Paul is a view which reexamines the first century context in which Paul wrote and thus certain messages he conveys in his Epistles. It challenges the traditional views on various doctrines drawn from Paul’s writings during the Reformation, suggesting the Reformers were incorrect in their interpretations. While the New Perspective on Paul is certainly thought provoking and even brings up some good points regarding historical context, the Church should treat it with caution and not regard it as a replacement for the traditional views of justification, righteousness, or salvation.

Tullock, J. H., & McEntire, M. H., (2006). The Old Testament Story (9th Ed.). p.

Written as an introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Brettler designedly provides a neutral approach to aid readers of all backgrounds in finding a

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The Corinthians challenged Paul’s teaching about the afterlife because they shared some of the views of the Greek Philosophy that is purely a spiritual experience (Harris, 2014). They felt that the resurrection of Christ that Paul describes was irrelevant. However, Paul explains to them that if Christ had not risen from the grave, then there would be no afterlife. He goes on to say that the life that Christians are living would be in vain, and all hope would be lost. Then, Paul provides greater detail to the Corinthians about how the link of Jesus’ resurrection to the Christian hope of the afterlife was brought about to all of humanity. He explains in the book of Genesis that Adam brought about death to all humans but that due to the resurrection of Christ we now have eternal life. In the second coming, all believers will join Christ during the resurrection in their spiritual

McEntire, M. & Tullock, J. (2012). The Old Testament Story, Ninth Edition. New York, New York: Pearson Learning Solutions Holy Bible, King James Version

Blomberg, Craig L., Jennifer Foutz Markley. A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010.

Paul developed his answer seemed unorthodoxy. Paul provides an eschatological sequence and he moved from Christ’s resurrection to telos (end). It is curious that Paul defense resurrection and he gives an explanation which involved the kingdom and reign of Christ. But upon the analysis the readers will find that it is precisely because of resurrection regards the death, and death is a kingdom of enemy. But Paul must discuss the reign of Christ. Paul uses apologist model for his argument. The theology of resurrection was still buzzing the scholars as well as readers. We can see in this chapter 15 there were some skeptics in Corinth who did not believe in the resurrection from the dead. Paul logically develops his argument that if resurrection from the death is impossible, then Christ could not have raised from the death. Then Paul’s theology of resurrection is false. Paul asserts the faith of the Corinthians would be worthless for Corinthians all still be dead in their sin. but Paul’s own accounts of seeing the Lord can never be kept apart from the gospel account of the resurrection and the eyewitness experiences of “seeing the Lord” sediment in the whole tradition. Paul himself makes the point as his summaries the tradition in 1 Corinthians

Paul, whose original name was Saul, took the name familiar to us after his conversion to Christianity. Paul never met Jesus during his brief years of ministry, but he was perhaps Christianity's most important early convert and the first major missionary to preach the Christian gospel to non-Jewish people. Saul was born around 10 C.E. in Tarsus, in modern-day Turkey. Unlike Jesus' other early followers, Paul was a Roman citizen, which granted him a certain respect wherever he went in the empire. He was a tentmaker by trade. After his conversion, he traveled extensively through most of the Mediterranean world. He died between 62 and 67 CE. Paul's birthplace was the Hellenistic city of Tarsus, chief city of the Roman province of Cilicia. Paul,

Dr. Sean McDowell is a published author and speaker who holds a PhD in Apologetics. He is well known as an apologist and serves as Assistant Professor in the Christian Apologetics program at Biola University, while also still teaching at the high school level. McDowell began to dig deeper into the study of the Apostles fate after an apologetics mission trip to Berkley University. After his students were challenged with providing proof of the Apostle’s deaths, he began to seek out a comprehensive history on these narratives, and found out that there were very little resources that sought out an encompassing and tested historical picture of the traditional death narratives. While these stories of the Apostle’s willingness to die does not prove

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Paul links Jesus’ resurrection to the Christian hope of an afterlife by addressing the concerns of some Corinthians who challenged Paul’s teaching concerning the afterlife. Specifically, the Corinthians questioned the need of a future bodily resurrection, while others did not accept Paul’s teaching because they accepted the Greek’s belief that a future existence is completely spiritual instead of consisting of the body’s physical resurrection (Harris, 2014, p.346). Paul addresses these challenges by asking the Corinthians to recall the miraculous event when Jesus rose from the dead. Also, Paul conveys another event that represented Jesus’ manifestation to his kinsman James or to the 500 plus brothers who at the same time, observed him

I believe that within the Gospels in the Bible we are able to find a deeper understanding of God’s unbelievable love for us as it discloses God’s true purpose for Jesus’ life, which is so much more than just showing us how to be good people. Jesus came to strengthen his understanding. Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz said I Knowing the Bible 101: A Guide to God’s Word in Plain Language that “As a man, Christ knew the struggles that we face in our daily lives. He was not immune to temptation, pain, and sorrow.” (p. 220) This was so that God could carry out his plan to save us, which Bickle and Jantz described like this ““Luke includes this quote of Jesus, which gives the best statement of His purpose: And I, the Son of Man, have come to seek and save those like him who are lost. (Luke 19:10).” (p. 221)

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