What Does Bible Teach About Resurrection

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Year 11 Christian Studies Resurrection Assignment

What does the Bible teach about the resurrection?
The Bible’s teaching of the Resurrection reveals how much we are loved by the Father, and the subsequent implications of believing in the sacrifice of His son.
The Resurrection of Christ, as claimed in the Bible, embodies the death and subsequent revival of Christ so that he might take away the sins of humanity. Our desire to disobey God, originating from the Fall of Genesis 3, require that we pay the price of eternal death, ‘for dust you are and to dust you will return.’ As the Bible advances through the Old Testament and into the New, we realise that God’s determination to fix humanity reaches it pinnacle upon the sacrifice of his son Jesus. …show more content…

From a historical point of view the reliability as primary sources close to the death of Jesus, and evidence of an extensive copying process all solidify my belief in the resurrection of Jesus. Evidence to support this can also be backed by the unification in what the four Gospels don’t say. Jesus prophesies the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, telling the disciples: ‘What you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.’ By not mentioning the fulfilment of this prophecy in 70 A.D., one can conclude that the four gospels were written before it occurred, as this was too much of a significant event to discard.

Before approaching the proofs against the resurrection of Jesus, it is important to note that there are many theories disproving His resurrection and only one truth. If somehow, I am convinced that the resurrection did not occur, how would I determine which disproving theory is true?
1. The body of Jesus was stolen by the disciples – I don’t think this theory is very likely, given accounts from the two of the Gospels revealing that after Jesus’ arrest ‘everyone deserted him and fled.’ The disciples here are implied to be a scattered and broken group – even when they are reunited ‘on the evening of that first day of the week’, they ‘were together, with the doors locked for fear of the

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