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From: kiki@isieng.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Re: one more time... (not again!)
Message-ID: <289@isieng.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 16:47:02 EDT
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Reply-To: kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst)
Organization: Integrated Solutions, San Jose, CA
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Summary: What is the significance of the resurrection

In article <3342@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes:
>M. Terribile writes:
>>> ... All of Christianity rests on a
>>> single point: the Resurrection.  If Jesus did not rise from the dead after
>>> a brutal crucifixion, there is no point whatsoever in Christianity....
>
>And Mike Huybensz replies:
>>Very seldom will I speak in favor of Christianity, but the above is downright
>>stupid.  While the resurrection might be a key point of christian theology,
>>it has nothing to do with Christian morality (some of which even I value.)
>
>Well, that simply isn't true.  In the Letter of James it says right out that
>the works are the evidence of faith...
>

Paul in Corinthians writes "If Christ be not risen, then our preaching is in
vain and your faith is in vain."  Why does the Christian faith rely so heavily
on the resurrection?  There are three main reasons why this is true.  (Romans
1:1-17 is a section of scripture that substantiates my thoughts.)

First, the story of Jesus was predicted before Jesus was on earth.  The prophets
talked about his birth, life, death, and resurrection as signs to prove that
Jesus was the son of God.  If Jesus didn't fulfill these prophesies, it would
be clear that Jesus was not God.  

Second, Jesus combined in himself the nature of God and man.  He came through
the genealogy of David, but his resurrection demonstrated that he was God.
Thus he closes the gap between man and God.

Third (and to me most crucial), when Jesus was resurrected He sent the comforter--the Holy Spirit--which definitely plays a great impact on Christian morality
and faith.  That, by the ways, is also what makes Christianity unique from any
other faith.  

The Holy Spirit is the Lord's way of bringing man into a unique relationship 
with Himself, that through their very lives and personalities He imparts His
own nature and life to others and touches and changes them. 

"I have come to give life and to give it abundantly"

Kiki