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| Is Jesus' death that matters for salvation? Do we cling to death or to immortal life? Do we, in general, seem to celebrate his death more so than his resurrection? Is pain and suffering more attractive than the joy of conquering death? Do we feel more empathy for those who suffer and shun those who do not? "How dare you not to suffer and pain!" we claim. Had Jesus remained dead, would it had meant as much as Jesus resurrected? If, like me, you answer NO then you understand that the real trick is not His death but His resurrection. So, lets not cry for the Jesus in the cross, but for the Jesus who walks among us even today. To walk along side Jesus is true salvation!!!!! |
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| To add a comment to "Is it his death that truly matters for salvation?" |
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| September 23, 2008 |
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| Superb. Let us set our eyes on eternity. With eternity and Christ as our focus, we will live each day honoring God. |
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| September 23, 2008 |
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| The Bible demanded death as payment for sin. Without Jesus' death, there would be no resurrection. You cannot separate the two events. In the economy of God, it is the entirety of Jesus' birth, life, death, burial and resurrection. We cannot divide these events into single moments of history and say that one outweighs the others - they are all essential for our salvation. Therefore, I must tell others of His death in order to help them see the horror of their sin - but then I must tell them of His resurrection to help them see that there is hope! |
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| September 23, 2008 |
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| I agree that you can't separate the two, but I get where your coming from. Without the resurrection there would be no victory over death! Praise God for all He did to redeem us! |
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| September 23, 2008 |
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| I hear your point, but I am speaking of exaltation of His death over His resurrection. But ask yourself this, did sacrificing animals (death as payment) before brought salvation? What is the one element that is different? Our salvation is possible by the power of his resurrection. Through his deeds he exalted life not death and although death was necessary for resurrection that is not what matters. |
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He who knew no sin became sin for us in His death, but we are saved through His life! If Christ be not risen we would be of all men most to be pittied. |
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| September 23, 2008 |
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We are in agreement Todd.
Salutations. |
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| September 23, 2008 |
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| The Bible says that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin! Resurrection without death would be meaningless. Jesus could have simply ascended into heaven without having gone through the horror of crucifixion, but that would not have made salvation possible. It is certainly through His resurrection that we are guaranteed eternal life, but His sacrificial, substitionary death made resurrection possible. We are not saved through the death of animals ordered by Levitical law, but all those animal sacrifices pointed to the one ULTIMATE sacrifice - Jesus! It is necessary for one to believe in the death, burial and resurrection to experience regeneration and to have hope of eternal life. |
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Steve, we are not far from agreement. I think is more about emphasis. You also say, "but His sacrificial, substitionary (sic) death made resurrection possible." Not to be sarcastic, but resurrection by definition implies death and the mere ascending to Heaven without dying would not have constituted resurrection.
From http://www.answers.com/topic/resurrection:
Resurrection definition,
The act of rising from the dead or returning to life. The state of one who has returned to life. The act of bringing back to practice, notice, or use; revival. Resurrection Christianity. The rising again of Jesus on the third day after the Crucifixion. The rising again of the dead at the Last Judgment.My point is simple, Him conquering death was an even greater act. After all Jesus' followers had disbanded and even denied knowing Him. Jesus sent the women at his tomb to gather them back in a place to give them their final orders. Had he not risen from dead another would be the story today. So as you see, I do not deny the importance of His sacrifice and death, but the emphasis is not His death rather His Resurrection and with that His mandate to go and spread the Gospel to all Nations. |
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