The third day He arose again from the dead

1 of the well-nigh important teachings in the Christian faith is the resurrection of the dead. Co-ordinate to the New Attestation, the apostles were witnesses to Christ's resurrection on the third twenty-four hour period. Christianity teaches that Christ rose in His literal, concrete body.

We believe that God the Begetter, Son, and Holy Spirit rose Christ from the dead. The resurrection of the dead not just applies to Christ; but, to those who dice besides. Christianity emphatically teaches the resurrection. Those who claim otherwise are something other than Christian. The Westminster Larger Catechism states the resurrection of Christ well.

Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, non having seen corruption in death (of which information technology was non possible for him to exist held), and having the very aforementioned torso in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof (but without mortality, and other common infirmities belonging to this life), actually united to his soul, he rose again from the dead the third day by his own ability; whereby he declared himself to be the Son of God, to have satisfied divine justice, to take vanquished death, and him that had ability of it, and to be Lord of quick and dead: all which he did equally a public person, the head of his church, for the justification, quickening in grace, back up against enemies, and to assure them of their resurrection from the dead at the last twenty-four hours.
Westminster Larger Catechism Question 52

The apostles taught that the Erstwhile Attestation prophets spoke not only of Christ's resurrection, but of the resurrection of the dead for those who believe in Christ.

Some say there is no resurrection

During Christ's time, at that place was a grouping of Jews, chosen the Sadducee's, who believed there was no resurrection of the dead. Christ addressed this teaching in the gospels of Matthew, Marking, and Luke. He said,

On that day some Sadducees (who say in that location is no resurrection) came to Him and questioned Him,. . .  But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures, or the power of God. "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are similar angels in heaven. "Just regarding the resurrection of the expressionless, have y'all not read that which was spoken to you by God, maxim, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob '? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
(Mat 22:23-32 NAS come across also Mar 12:18 and Luk xx:27)

This passage expressly teaches that there is a resurrection of the dead. Jesus uses Exodus 3:vi as His proof of the resurrection.

Assertive in the resurrection of Christ is important

The belief that God will heighten us from the dead and that Christ rose from the expressionless is an extremely important doctrine. Those who negate, explain abroad, or deny this teaching cannot possibly claim to exist Christian. Paul states,

Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how exercise some among you say that at that place is no resurrection of the expressionless? But if at that place is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has non been raised, and then our preaching is vain, your religion also is vain. Moreover we are fifty-fifty constitute to exist false witnesses of God, because we witnessed against God that He raised Christ, whom He did non raise, if in fact the dead are non raised. For if the dead are not raised, non fifty-fifty Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; yous are still in your sins. So those also who have fallen asleep in Christ accept perished. If we accept hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to exist pitied. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the start fruits of those who are comatose. For since by a man came expiry, by a man also came the resurrection of the expressionless. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall exist made alive.
(1Co fifteen:12-22 NAS)

Paul so adamantly teaches the resurrection of Christ that, he says, if in that location is no resurrection, then Christianity is false and a lie. This sets those who deny the resurrection outside of Christianity. Denying the resurrection is the teaching of some other organized religion, which, has no right to call itself Christian.

There were witnesses to Christ'south resurrection

The apostles claimed to be witnesses to His resurrection. This is found in John and many places in Acts.

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace exist with you lot." And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples therefore rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
(Joh 20:xix-20 NAS)
but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the expressionless, a fact to which we are witnesses.
(Act 3:15 NAS)
And with great power the apostles were giving witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and arable grace was upon them all.
(Act 4:33 NAS)
"This Jesus God raised upwardly again, to which nosotros are all witnesses.
(Act 2:32 NAS)

We are confident that the resurrection of Christ is truthful because the apostles were eye witnesses to Christ'due south resurrection. They truly saw Him in His torso, dined with Him, spoke to Him, and touched Him.

Christ rose in His torso

The apostles taught that Christ rose in His literal body. The New Testament states,

Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in iii days I will raise it up." The Jews therefore said, "It took 40-half-dozen years to build this temple, and volition You lot heighten it upwardly in iii days?" Simply He was speaking of the temple of His body. When therefore He was raised from the expressionless, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the give-and-take which Jesus had spoken.
(Joh two:nineteen-22 NAS)
The other disciples therefore were saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I shall see in His hands the banner of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my paw into His side, I will not believe." And afterward eight days once again His disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst, and said, "Peace be with you." Then He said to Thomas, "Accomplish here your finger, and run into My hands; and reach here your hand, and put it into My side; and exist not unbelieving, but assertive." Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, accept you believed? Blessed are they who did not run into, and yet believed."
(Joh twenty:25-29 NAS)

Jesus did not raise merely as a spirit or an apparition. Nor was He a hallucination of the apostles listen. He rose from the expressionless in His actual body. The 2nd Helvetic Confession states this well.

We believe and teach that the aforementioned Jesus Christ our Lord, in his true flesh in which he was crucified and died, rose again from the expressionless, and that not another mankind was raised other than the ane buried, or that a spirit was taken up instead of the flesh, only that he retained his true body. Therefore, while his disciples thought they saw the spirit of the Lord, he showed them his hands and feet which were marked by the prints of the nails and wounds, and added: "Come across my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and meet, for a spirit has non mankind and basic as you see that I have" (Luke 24:39).
Second Helvetic Confession; Chapter Eleven. Of Jesus Christ, True God and Man, the But Savior of the World – CHRIST IS TRULY RISEN FROM THE Expressionless.

Who raised Christ from the Dead?

The resurrection of Christ was done by God. What we mean by this is that the Begetter raised Christ from the dead, the Holy Spirit raised Christ from the dead, and Christ raised Himself from the expressionless.

God raised Christ from the dead

Simply God raised Him from the dead;
(Act 13:thirty NAS)
that if you lot confess with your oral cavity Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;
(Rom 10:9 NAS)

The Male parent raised Christ from the expressionless

Paul, an apostle (not sent from men, nor through the bureau of human, only through Jesus Christ, and God the Male parent, who raised Him from the dead),
(Gal i:1 NAS)
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to y'all a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. . . .  These are in accord with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His correct paw in the heavenly places,
(Eph 1:17-twenty NAS)

Christ raised Himself from the dead

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it once more. "No ane has taken it away from Me, but I lay information technology downwards on My ain initiative. I have dominance to lay it downwards, and I have authority to accept it upwardly again. This commandment I received from My Begetter."
(Joh 10:17-18 NAS See also Joh 2:nineteen-21)

The Holy Spirit raised Christ from the dead

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.
(Rom 8:11 NAS)
who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,
(Rom 1:four NAS)

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is God and He raised Christ from the dead.

The Apostles taught the resurrection equally the hope through the prophets

The apostles not only witnessed the resurrection of Christ, they besides found the resurrection in the Old Testament as prophecy of what was promised to God'south people at death. Christ said,

"Only that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage well-nigh the called-for bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
(Luk 20:37 NAS)

Christ clearly was teaching that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were raised from the dead at the time of their death. Paul says the promise given to the prophets was the resurrection from the dead.

. . . set up apart for the gospel of God, which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, co-ordinate to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord, . . .
(Rom 1:1-v NAS)

Paul explains that "the promise to which our twelve tribes promise to reach" was the resurrection of the dead which is only possible through Christ.

"And now I am continuing trial for the hope of the hope made by God to our fathers; the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly serve God night and mean solar day. And for this promise, O King, I am being accused by Jews. "Why is it considered incredible among you people if God does raise the dead? "So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the proper noun of Jesus of Nazareth.
(Act 26:6-9 NAS)
For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death. "Then, having obtained assistance from God, I stand to this twenty-four hours testifying both to small and great, stating nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to take place; that the Christ was to suffer, and that past reason of His resurrection from the dead He should be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.
(Act 26:21-23 NAS)

The "Promised Country" that the prophets were looking forward to was not an earthly country; just, the paradise in heaven reserved for them. Only obtainable through the resurrection of the dead.

All these died in organized religion, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a altitude, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a land of their ain. And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would take had opportunity to return. Merely as it is, they desire a better country, that is a heavenly ane. Therefore God is non ashamed to exist chosen their God; for He has prepared a urban center for them. By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises was offering upward his only begotten son; it was he to whom information technology was said, "In Isaac your descendants shall be chosen." He considered that God is able to raise men fifty-fifty from the dead; from which he also received him back as a blazon.
(Heb 11:13-nineteen NAS)

The apostles were able to teach the resurrection considering the Former Testament clearly teaches the resurrection of the dead.

The Resurrection of the dead in the Onetime Testament

The Old Testament has enough of places that talk near the resurrection of the dead. Considering of Christs resurrection, God's people will raise from the expressionless.

He volition revive united states of america after two days; He will raise us up on the 3rd twenty-four hours That nosotros may alive earlier Him
(Hos vi:two NAS)
For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to undergo disuse. One thousand wilt brand known to me the path of life; In Thy presence is fulness of joy; In Thy right hand there are pleasures forever.
(Psa 16:ten-11 NAS)
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For He will receive me. Selah
(Psa 49:15 NAS)
Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. Y'all who prevarication in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the world will requite nascency to the departed spirits.
(Isa 26:nineteen NAS)
And many of those who slumber in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, only the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
(Dan 12:2 NAS)
Fifty-fifty after my skin is destroyed, However from my flesh I shall see God;
(Chore 19:26 NAS)

These passages show that at the time of decease, the resurrection occurs.

Events that occurred when Christ rose from the dead

The resurrection of the dead is a straight result of Christ's resurrection. Christ said,

Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and at present is, when the dead shall hear the phonation of the Son of God; and those who hear shall alive. "For only as the Begetter has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Human being. "Do non marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come along; those who did the skilful deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
(Joh 5:25-29 NAS)

When Christ rose from the dead, those who did good deeds were raised to resurrection of life and those who did evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment. Some of those who were expressionless already were raised at the time of Christs resurrection. All the rest of the people who died were resurrected at the time of their death.

Those who were not raised at the time of their death, were raised at the time of Christ'southward resurrection.

and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy urban center and appeared to many.
(Mat 27:five-53 NAS)

These are the ones whom Christ preached to, while in "Hell," during His death in the tomb.

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