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A more recent variant of the aforementioned theory. [43] Kris Komarnitsky, one the first proposers of this theory, says that while most scholars consider the resurrection belief a consequence of grief or bereavement visions, it is possible that the resurrection belief actually preceded and induced the post-mortem visions of Jesus. According to ...
As such, Lutheran churches in the Missouri Synod affirm that "The Confessions rule out the contemporary view that death is a pleasant and painless transition into a perfect world" and reject both the ideas that "the soul is by nature and by virtue of an inherent quality immortal" and that "the soul 'sleeps' between death and the resurrection in ...
There is not one of the People of the Scripture but will believe in him before his death, and on the Day of Resurrection he will be a witness against them. — Quran 4:159 [ 16 ] I only told them what You commanded me: that you shall worship God, my Lord and your Lord.
In some forms of Christianity, the intermediate state or interim state is a person's existence between death and the universal resurrection.In addition, there are beliefs in a particular judgment right after death and a general judgment or last judgment after the resurrection.
Another argument is that the resurrection of Jesus occurred and was an act of God, hence God must exist. Some versions of this argument have been presented, such as N. T. Wright's argument from the nature of the claim of resurrection to its occurrence and the "minimal facts argument", defended by scholars such as Gary Habermas and Mike Licona, which defend that God raising Jesus from the dead ...
A detail from Hieronymus Bosch's depiction of Hell (16th century). In Christian theology, Hell is the place or state into which, by God's definitive judgment, unrepentant sinners pass in the general judgment, or, as some Christians believe, immediately after death (particular judgment).
And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." Matthew 24:31; The resurrection of the righteous will occur first. [110] "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet ...
The Christ myth theory, also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, or the Jesus ahistoricity theory, [1] [q 1] is the fringe view that the story of Jesus is a work of mythology with no historical substance.