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Chapter 36b - MY FLESH DWELLS IN SAFETY: A RESURRECTION FANTASY

Chapter 36b - MY FLESH DWELLS IN SAFETY: A RESURRECTION FANTASY

Continued from Chapter 36a Physical or spiritual body? What does the New Testament claim happened to the corpse of Jesus? Jesus is said to have been resurrected, to have entered into another kind and level of existence, one in which he will never again die. The New Testament authors are ambivalent on the subject of whether Jesus was resurrected with a physical body or only as a spirit. What was the state of the returned Jesus? The early church could not agree as to what was his post-resurrec
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Prayer

Prayer

Prayer Master of the Universe, grant me the ability to be alone; may it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grass – among all growing things – and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer, to talk with the One to whom I belong. May I express there everything in my heart, and may all the foliage of the field – all grasses, trees, and plants – awake at my coming, to send the powers of their life into the words of my prayer so that my prayer and speech are made whole throu
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Robin Schanker The Long Road Home

Robin Schanker The Long Road Home

I opened my door to find Holly, a friend I hadn't seen much that semester. Why did she visit me that October evening? I invited her in and we chatted for about fifteen minutes. Then Holly subtly changed the subject to Jesus Christ and Christianity, asking if I had seen a recent film on death and dying, sponsored by a group she was now involved with called Campus Crusade for Christ. Gradually it became clear that Holly wanted me to accept Jesus as my savior. I insisted that, to Jews, Jesus is no
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The Meaning of Pneuma and Its Role In The Gospels

The Meaning of Pneuma and Its Role In The Gospels

Continued from Part 31 Pneuma, “spirit” and parakletos, “helper” The Greek word for spirit (pneuma) has many different meanings, the correct one being determined only from the context of each occurrence.  In Greek pneuma, is neuter, as are all pronouns referring to the spirit, making them necessarily impersonal.  Those New Testament translations which render the “spirit” as “He” instead of “it” do so because of trinitarian beliefs (e.g., John 14:17). If the translators had properly rendered t
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