Because Jesus' resurrection is inexorably linked with His death, and it is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead that proves Him to be the Son of God (Romans 1:1-6), yes, that is correct.
Because Jesus died sinless, death could not hold Him, for death can only claim sinners ("the wages of sin is death"). Jesus did not receive any wage of death for He had never built up works of sin. Jesus gave Himself over to physical death, deliberately. He could have avoided it but chose not to resist it - for the sake of glorifying God in providing the perfect ransom sacrifice for sinners.
That is why Christians celebrate both His death, and His resurrection. You cannot separate one from the other. Christians know that this brought them into the new covenant in His blood and so their sins have been pardoned and they enter into that covenant for a Kingdom. It's glorious!
Jesus' death was one of the most important events in history. But you're a JW, so it has no benefit for you unless you'd like to become a Christian and actually partake of His death for the forgiveness of your sins. Right now, it has no benefit for you at all, because you won't claim what He offers. And you certainly pay no attention to His resurrection, the biggest event of all, which is doubly bad for you. Especially considering that your false Jesus is dead, forever dead.
This is obviously a very controversial topic. Me? I'm non-religious, but not an atheist either. Meaning I believe in God, but I just don't follow a particular religion. From a Catholic person's perspective, this would be an extremely important event - and I would respect their belief of that. However for me personally, I don't find it very important. Not to mention there is no actual evidence that Jesus ever lived - so I wouldn't classify his death as a historical event.
There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!
There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?
Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!
At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!
Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?
Christianity is an invention of the Italians and that is why it came from the Holy ROMAN Catholic church!
Please realize that those claims for the Old historians are worthless since they were not even born until long after everyone in the stories would have been so long dead!
Josephus AD 37 – AD 100
Tacitus AD 56 – AD 120
Suetonius - 69 – 130 AD
Pliny the Younger, 61 AD – 112 AD
Justin Martyr (Saint Justin) AD103–165 AD
Lucian - AD 120 -180 AD but he was hostile to Christianity and openly mocked it.
Pamphilius AD 240-309 AD
Eusebius AD 263 – 339 AD
Photius AD 877 – 886 AD
Thallus - But there are no actual record of him except a fragment of writing which mentions the sack of Troy [109 BC] Showing that he was clearly not alive in biblical times.
Some even try to use Seneca. 4 BCE – 65 CE but as a Stoic Philosopher he opposed religion yet made not a single mention of a Jesus or Christianity!
Even funnier is trying to claim Celsus AD ? – 177 AD Who said that Jesus was a Jew who’se mother was a poor Jewish girl whose husband, who was a carpenter, drove her away because of her adultery with a Roman soldier named Panthera. She gave birth to an illegitimate child named Jesus. In Egypt, Jesus became learned in sorcery and upon his return presented himself as a god.
Had Jesus just been crucified and that was the end of the story, you would have NO salvation, but the fact that He rose from the dead after three days is THE most important fact. Don't believe everything that your Governing Body dictates to you.
That's an interesting theory, especially since the Crucifixion narrative is full of suspicious unlikelihoods and contradictions that indicate it may not have happened at all.
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Because Jesus' resurrection is inexorably linked with His death, and it is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead that proves Him to be the Son of God (Romans 1:1-6), yes, that is correct.
Because Jesus died sinless, death could not hold Him, for death can only claim sinners ("the wages of sin is death"). Jesus did not receive any wage of death for He had never built up works of sin. Jesus gave Himself over to physical death, deliberately. He could have avoided it but chose not to resist it - for the sake of glorifying God in providing the perfect ransom sacrifice for sinners.
That is why Christians celebrate both His death, and His resurrection. You cannot separate one from the other. Christians know that this brought them into the new covenant in His blood and so their sins have been pardoned and they enter into that covenant for a Kingdom. It's glorious!
Please stop spamming with your links.
Jesus' death was one of the most important events in history. But you're a JW, so it has no benefit for you unless you'd like to become a Christian and actually partake of His death for the forgiveness of your sins. Right now, it has no benefit for you at all, because you won't claim what He offers. And you certainly pay no attention to His resurrection, the biggest event of all, which is doubly bad for you. Especially considering that your false Jesus is dead, forever dead.
This is obviously a very controversial topic. Me? I'm non-religious, but not an atheist either. Meaning I believe in God, but I just don't follow a particular religion. From a Catholic person's perspective, this would be an extremely important event - and I would respect their belief of that. However for me personally, I don't find it very important. Not to mention there is no actual evidence that Jesus ever lived - so I wouldn't classify his death as a historical event.
No
in human history the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was
JC's death was a non event bc JC never existed
No. The most important event in history is the Big Bang
Really?
Why is all the evidence against that then?
There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!
There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?
Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!
At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!
Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?
Christianity is an invention of the Italians and that is why it came from the Holy ROMAN Catholic church!
Please realize that those claims for the Old historians are worthless since they were not even born until long after everyone in the stories would have been so long dead!
Josephus AD 37 – AD 100
Tacitus AD 56 – AD 120
Suetonius - 69 – 130 AD
Pliny the Younger, 61 AD – 112 AD
Justin Martyr (Saint Justin) AD103–165 AD
Lucian - AD 120 -180 AD but he was hostile to Christianity and openly mocked it.
Pamphilius AD 240-309 AD
Eusebius AD 263 – 339 AD
Photius AD 877 – 886 AD
Thallus - But there are no actual record of him except a fragment of writing which mentions the sack of Troy [109 BC] Showing that he was clearly not alive in biblical times.
Some even try to use Seneca. 4 BCE – 65 CE but as a Stoic Philosopher he opposed religion yet made not a single mention of a Jesus or Christianity!
Even funnier is trying to claim Celsus AD ? – 177 AD Who said that Jesus was a Jew who’se mother was a poor Jewish girl whose husband, who was a carpenter, drove her away because of her adultery with a Roman soldier named Panthera. She gave birth to an illegitimate child named Jesus. In Egypt, Jesus became learned in sorcery and upon his return presented himself as a god.
Had Jesus just been crucified and that was the end of the story, you would have NO salvation, but the fact that He rose from the dead after three days is THE most important fact. Don't believe everything that your Governing Body dictates to you.
Sorry, believer, but it was not a piece of history.
It is mythology, and Jesus exists in the imaginations of the 'belief infected'.
Have a nice day.
I agree. Without him we would have no hope for the future.
That's an interesting theory, especially since the Crucifixion narrative is full of suspicious unlikelihoods and contradictions that indicate it may not have happened at all.
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