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Opinion | Why It Matters That Jesus Really Did Rise From the Dead
I think the primary work of Jesus Christ was to show us a path of self-giving love that is bigger than our fears, bigger than our jealousies and resentments, and bigger than our worst thoughts and deeds. By love I mean neither neither a milquetoast “kindness” that elides the hard bits nor a graceless “tough-love” program for perfection.
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Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
“The risen Lord is not the historical Jesus behind the Gospels, but the Christ of the apostolic preaching, of the whole New Testament” (65).
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
That would be the triumph of what might be called a Christianity without God.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
If we have the authentic words of Jesus claiming to be God, evidence that he genuinely performed miracles, and confirmation that Jesus resurrected from the grave, then Christianity is undeniably true.