The resurrection of Jesus is the cardinal affirmation of Christian faith found in the New Testament and passed on to us by early Christians. To confess, "Jesus is Lord," one has to accept that "God raised him from the dead" (Romans 10, 9) and that "if Christ has not been raised, then is pour preaching in vain and your faith is vain too" (1 Corinthians 15,14). Not to admit the resurrection of Jesus means that one is not a Christian.
There are six different resurrection narratives in the New Testament (Mark 16,1-8; Matthew 28,1-20; Luke 24, 1-53; John 20,1-29; the Johannine appendix, 21,1-23 and the appendix to the Marcan gospel 16,19-20). They are all the same in many ways except for the accounts of the empty tomb. It should be noted that Paul makes no mention of an empty tomb in his letters (1 Corinthians 15,3-5) Hence, the story of an empty tomb might seem to be of later (apologetic) origin. So the big question is, what was the resurrection of Jesus like? Was it resuscitation or a reanimation? Luke 24, 37-39 seems to reject the idea that he was like a spook.
2007-04-07
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