What truths can we verify through the gospel/gospels concerning the death and resurrection of jesus? Are their for example any significant sources outside the NT verifying or contradicting these testimonies?
There is only one prayer directly addressed to Jesus in the NT (Acts 7:59). This is very different from post-Nicene Christian practice that sees Jesus as the direct recipient of prayer rather than the Father.
Is this evolution in Christian practice the result of trinitarian dogma?
If you are white, good for you. God is also white. If you are brown or black you did something bad in the previous life to earn this.
If you are male good for you, God is also Male. You get to hold the priesthood because you have a penis, and reign over females.
Socially and politically conservative. Good for you. God hates liberals.
Can you fit in with styles and dress? God likes white shirts. All the GAs wear them. Don't show off your shoulder women. wear our underwear, restrict, your diet to what we tell you. It's not about health. It's about obedience.
Make a lot of money? That's God rewarding you for your righteous. Pay 10% tithing. You will be rewarded with higher callings. People will look up to you after all wealth is associated with righteousness.
Oh I hope you are not Gay? Hide it, go to therapy. Pray the gay away.
Go on a mission. Get married in the temple at the right times. Oh, don't play with your junk!
So what percent of are white, male, straight, conservative, wealthy, conforming and obedient. Those are the chosen few who make up church leadership.
Jesus on the other hand was probably browned skinned,
he was no respecter of persons, He didn't care gender or gender orientation. He respected and healed women.
He healed on the Sabbath which I guess was really bad at the time
He didn't condemn the poor but blessed them.
He said it was not what you ate or drank that defiled you but what can out of your mouth that did so.
He probably had long hair and a beard.
Not much time spent on political causes No prop 8 support
He didn't spend much time condemning gays either.
He really never had a home. He pretty much was a homeless dirty immigrant.
He never mentioned masturbation once in his parables.
I kind of think LDS Inc must be following a different Jesus.
https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2019/independent-sources-of-the-empty-tomb
From my understanding, the responses of the Jewish authorities confirmed this fact because they believed the disciples stole his body thereby admitting that Jesus's tomb was being found empty.
The burial story is part of very old source material used by Mark in writing his gospel because when we come to the passion story we do have one, smooth, continuously running narrative this suggests that the passion story was one of Markβs sources of information in writing his gospel.
Most scholars think Mark is already the earliest gospel and Markβs source for Jesusβs passion is even older, comparison of the narratives of the four gospels shows that their accounts do not diverge from one another until after the burial this implies that the burial account was part of the passion story.
As a member of the Jewish court that condemned Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea is unlikely to be a Christian invention. There was strong resentment against the Jewish leadership for their role in the condemnation of Jesus and there is no other competing burial story exists so if the burial by Joseph were fictitious, then we would expect to find either some historical trace of what actually happened to Jesusβs corpse or at least some competing legends.
All our sources are unanimous on Jesusβ honorable interment by Joseph for these reasons.
The majority of New Testament critics concur that Jesus was buried in a tomb by Joseph of Arimathea.
I think there is much evidence for the historical reliability of the empty tomb and on the Sunday following the crucifixion.
Jesusβ tomb was found empty by a group of his women followers and the fact is womenβs testimony was discounted in first century Palestine stands in favor of the womenβs role in discovering the empty tomb.
According to Josephus, the testimony of women was regarded as so worthless that it could not even be admitted into a Jewish court of law so any later legendary story would certainly have made male disciples discover the empty tomb not by women.
Where have I went wrong?
The traditional Chalcedonian interpretation of mainstream Christianity relies on Phil. 2:5-11 as a proof text for the "two natures" view of Jesus. This view is supported by a reliance on classical Greek philosophy, i.e. Aristotle, Plato, and councils.
Modern, less theologically motivated scholars interpret the passage within a Jewish Hellenistic, maybe even Judeo-Gnostic, context. Briefly, Jesus was in the ΞΌΞΏΟΟῠθΡοῦ, which refers to the glory he had as the heavenly Second Adam. Instead of seizing equality with god, he divested himself (κΡνΟΟ) of his former glory to take on the ΞΌΞΏΟΟὴ Ξ΄ΞΏα½»Ξ»ΞΏΟ and was exalted. This is contrasted with the disobedience of Adam, who also bore the image and glory of god, but tried to seize equality with god and was condemned.
This is supported by the linguistic parallelism between the LXX and Phil. 2 and the "two Adams" Christology found in some of Paul's letters (i.e. 1 Cor. 14:20-49). It's unlikely Paul was directly influenced by Greek philosophy given the strongly Hebraic character of his theology.
Me neither.
Eat a bag of dicks, Rusty.
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I recently had a friend who questioned my belief in and testimony of the Book of Mormon as a supplement to the Bible. They cited Revelation 22:18-19 and said that applied to the Bible as a whole. They also said that similar things were mentioned elsewhere in the bible and that the Bible is the ONLY source of doctrinal truth. I don't belive it to be true but I still question the meaning of this verse and where it applies as far as modern scripture goes.
New Job Started Today , Pray for healing and Re-energizing to my Stomach , all my being and all my Organs and endurance and the Same for all my family in Yeshua's / Jesus' . Name . Amen .
I sold my car to a buyer for $450 cash. We had a bill of sale written out (handwritten, but we both signed it), and I went online to the DOL and reported the sale.
Now I have a text from the buyer saying it's been towed and are charging in my name. He said he'd pay for everything but needs me to take it out.
This isn't my car anymore. But as far as I can tell, he never went and got it registered. I do NOT want to get involved in this; it's not my car, and it's not my fault he got it towed.
But am I going to get a bill from whatever towing company took the car? Am I in danger of anything happening to me?
There is only one prayer directly addressed to Jesus in the NT (Acts 7:59). For that matter, the Christians of the first three centuries also addressed their prayers directly to the Father, not Jesus (with the exception of maybe one or two prayers). This is very different from post-Nicene Christian practice that sees Jesus as the direct recipient of prayer rather than the Father.
Is this evolution in Christian practice the result of trinitarian dogma?
