To Omega
John 2:22) When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. Over 20 times in the NT, after the resurrection of Christ, the Apostles declared that Almighty GOD raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead; seeing that they believed the word which Jesus had said; they understood what he meant (after his resurrection). Jesus was speaking in a parabolical manner; whilst his enemies may have misunderstood him (as they commonly did e.g. v. 20); his disciples however, after his resurrection understood what he meant! Therefore, they declared that it was GOD Almighty who raised him from the dead. They never taught or preached anywhere that Jesus
literally raised himself from the dead!
Think about it!
I have, and here is what I came up with: The disciples understood that it meant after His resurrection? where does it say that?
(John 2:22)
When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
Hence this understanding came to his disciples
after he was raised from the dead.
And if you would like scriptural proof concerning the deity of the Holy Ghost
No thanks. That’s a non-starter.
GOD is spirit ... GOD is holy.
The holy spirit is simply the spirit of GOD.
’ITS’ not a person or a being alongside GOD the Father. ‘IT’ is the spirit of GOD.
In fact, think about it! How could Jesus raise himself from the dead! He couldn’t - because he was dead!! DEAD MEN DON’T RAISE THEMSELVES!!
How about the Holy Spirit who also is God and that breathed life into the body of Christ!
OK! OK! Let me concede for a few moments to the above statement. Then are you not agreeing that
Christ was indeed dead and it took power from another source
other than himself in order for Christ to be raised from the dead?
Therefore Christ did NOT raise himself!!
Hmmm.
Nevertheless I would reword it …
How about the holy spirit of GOD breathed life into that dead man who was in Joseph of Arimathaea’s tomb.
The angel didn’t say “it or his body is risen … behold the place where his body was laid.” NO! (Mark 16:6) And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified:
he is risen;
he is not here: behold the place where they laid
him.
Mary did not say, “I don’t know where they have laid the body of Jesus.” NO! (John 20:2) … saith unto them, They have taken away
the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid
him.
And even when his body is specifically mentioned, it reads …
(John 20:12-15) And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet,
where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away
my Lord {adoni}, and I know not where they have laid
him. 14
And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou?
whom seekest thou?
(NOT what seekest thou?) She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne
him hence, tell me where thou hast laid
him, and I will take
him away.
Why did the angel and Mary speak in this fashion?
Because a dead
person was placed in the tomb, not just a body. A dead
person was raised from the dead, not
a body! GOD didn’t raise the body of Christ. GOD raised
Christ himself from the dead.
It wasn’t a case of the body was in the tomb whilst Jesus was somewhere else (Gnosticism, dualism)
NO! It was Jesus Christ in the tomb. It was Jesus himself who was grave-dead. ‘HE’ was dead.
[John 19:33, Acts 25:19, Rev 1:18, 2:8 )
Jesus Christ was himself raised from the dead ...
- (Acts 2:22-24) Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God … 23 Him … ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24 Whom God hath raised up …
- (Acts 2:32) This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
- (Acts 3:15) And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
- (Acts 4:10) … by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead ...
- (Acts 5:30) THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
- (Acts 10:38-41) How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power … 39 … whom they slew and hanged on a tree: 40 Him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly; …
- (Acts 13:23-30) Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: … 28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. 29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. 30 But God raised him from the dead:
- (Acts 13:34-37) And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: 37 But he, whom God raised, saw no corruption.
- (Acts 17:31) Because he [GOD] hath appointed a day, in the which he [GOD] will judge the world in righteousness by [THROUGH] that man whom he [GOD] hath ordained; whereof he [GOD] hath given assurance unto all men, in that he [GOD] hath raised him [JESUS] from the dead.
- (Rom 4:24) … if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
- (Rom 10:9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
- (1 Cor 15:15) Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of GOD that HE raised up Christ: whom HE raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
- (2 Cor 4:14) Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus …
- (Gal 1:1) ... Jesus Christ, and GOD THE FATHER, WHO raised him from the dead;
- (1 Thess 1:9-10) … how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
- (1 Thess 4:14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- (Heb 13:20) Now the God of peace, that brought from the dead our Lord Jesus …
- (1 Pet 1:21) Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
… by the spirit and power of the Living GOD
- (Rom 1:3-4) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; 4 And DECLARED TO BE THE SON OF GOD with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
- (Rom 6:4) ... that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of THE FATHER ...
- (Rom 8:11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead …
- (1 Cor 6:14) And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
- (Eph 1:19-20) … according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
- (Col 2:12) … through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
In conclusion then, …
As you must so clearly see above the apostles did
not teach that Jesus
raised himself from the dead. They taught over and over again, that GOD the Father raised His Son from the dead by
GOD’s own power. They exhorted the early church to believe this as a requisite for salvation.
Neither did they teach anywhere that GOD raised the ‘body of Jesus’ and re-united it with his ‘immortal soul’!! They spoke of
‘him’ who was killed,
‘him’ who was buried, and
‘him’ who was raised from the dead by GOD! Never
‘it’ i.e. the body of Jesus.
They obviously therefore, did
not take the words of John 2:19 to mean that Jesus would raise himself from the dead.
They obviously did
not have that understanding.
For if they had, they would have taught it wouldn’t they!! They obviously then, had no concept of the
so-called deity of Christ.
Omega, whose report will you believe? Whose doctrine will you receive?
Apostolic doctrine or Trinitarian doctrine??
Selah