Sickle of Truth

We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection Let us once again consider each of the following statements made by our Adventist friends. They state: “The first resurrection happens when Christ returns. This resurrection is for those who were faithful to Christ and died. These resurrected people will join all the faithful Christians who are still living. Together they will go to Heaven.” Having in our previous post shown the true meaning of the word “resurrection” and what…

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We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection We were reviewing what our Adventist friends had to say concerning the First Resurrection. Having already addressed the first part in regards to the erroneous idea of a bodily resurrection, we would now like to address the rest of this comment as well as what they have say about the second resurrection and second death as they are all related. They state: “When Jesus returns at the end of time,…

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We conclude here with the reasoning’s behind our Lord having appeared as he did following his resurrection. “To regard our Lord’s glorious body as a body of flesh would not in the least account for his peculiar and sudden appearances during those forty days prior to his ascension. How could he so suddenly appear and then vanish? How was it that he kept himself almost constantly invisible during those forty days? And why was it that his appearance each time…

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We continue with the reasoning behind our Lord having appeared as he did following his resurrection. “That the bodies in which our Lord appeared were real human bodies, and not mere delusions, he gave them clearly to understand when he ate before them, and invited them to handle him and see that the body was real flesh and bones, saying, “Why are ye troubled? …Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me and see; for…

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We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection Having taking a brief look at the ransom and its importance we would now like to consider the reasoning’s behind our Lord appearing the way he did following his resurrection. “With our Lord, after his resurrection, it was simply a question of expediency as to which way of appearing to his disciples would best accomplish his object, of making known his resurrection and change of nature. Had he appeared as…

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We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection In our previous post we were reviewing the importance of our Lord’s death (the ransom sacrifice) to our deliverance from the death penalty, that he had surrendered his very life, his soul for the sake of the world. “The whole point of Jesus’ post resurrection appearances was to convince his followers that he, indeed, was alive and risen but NOT that he had experienced a bodily resurrection. Jesus had said,…

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We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection From a review of the position held by many in the professing church concerning the bodily resurrection of our Lord (as noted in the comments quoted in our previous post) it is evident that most have little understanding of the ransom price, viz., the death of our Lord and its necessity for our deliverance from the death penalty. We will not here go into the specifics of the Ransom as…

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We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection In our previous two posts we have presented scriptural evidence which confirms that IT IS NOT the body that is to be resurrected, but rather the soul. It is the soul that needs redemption from the wages of sin, not the body. Now as we had previously stated if (?) our friends when referring to a bodily resurrection were only implying that when resurrected we would be receiving an actual…

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