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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die” (John 11:25).
There is but one world religion based on the resurrection of its crucified and risen founder—Christianity. In this, Christians find their hope that they will not cease to exist at their death, but will be with Jesus and will inherit their resurrected bodies in a deathless world, the New Heavens and New Earth (1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 21-22).
Without the reality of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead in space-time history, there is no legitimate Christian message at all, as Paul makes clear: “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15:17). If Jesus is dead, Christianity is dead. But how does the doctrine of Christ’s resurrection compare with other religious and philosophical options about the afterlife? The possible positions are relatively few, but the stakes could not be higher since how we live affects our eternal destiny.
Death is the end: The myth of atheism
Continued below.
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There is but one world religion based on the resurrection of its crucified and risen founder—Christianity. In this, Christians find their hope that they will not cease to exist at their death, but will be with Jesus and will inherit their resurrected bodies in a deathless world, the New Heavens and New Earth (1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 21-22).
Without the reality of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead in space-time history, there is no legitimate Christian message at all, as Paul makes clear: “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15:17). If Jesus is dead, Christianity is dead. But how does the doctrine of Christ’s resurrection compare with other religious and philosophical options about the afterlife? The possible positions are relatively few, but the stakes could not be higher since how we live affects our eternal destiny.
Death is the end: The myth of atheism
Continued below.
The Afterlife: The Resurrection and Other Possibilities
By Douglas Groothuis
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