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  Resurrection of Jesus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
According to the New Testament, especially the Gospels, Jesus, also called Christ, had the power to lay his life down and to take it up again, being both human and God as well as the Promised Messiah.
The idea of a return to the body through Resurrection was scandalous to many pagans and was an area that the early Christian apologists such as Justin Martyr and Tertullian had to contend with.
Contemporary Scholarship and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ &8212; A presentation of the historical evidence for the Resurrection by a New Testament scholar
resurrection-of-jesus.iqnaut.net   (3655 words)

  
 Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith
The allegedly false prophecies that they offer are typically based on questionable sources or are distortions of the truth, which I address on my LDSFAQ page, Questions About Prophets and Prophecy (also see my essay on the fallibility of human leaders in the true Church).
Not only was this prophecy well fulfilled by the mighty role played by Sidney Rigdon in leading the Church and speaking for Joseph, but it also fulfilled a prophecy recorded in the Book of Mormon.
His escape fulfilled literally a prophecy which Joseph made over a year previously, that the time would come that the balls would fly around him like hail, and he should see his friends fall on the right and on the left, but that there should not be a hole in his garment (HC 6:619).
www.jefflindsay.com /LDSFAQ/FQ_prophecies.shtml   (12305 words)

  
 Old Testament Believers and New Testament Christians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The commencement of the presence and activity of Christ's life in the Christian is often referred to with the analogy of "birth" in the New Testament.
It is a deficient Trinitarian theology that separates the Holy Spirit from the "Spirit of Christ." The natural tendency of Christian "religion" is to posit some theory of the Spirit's "supernatural influence" to assist in the Christian's ethical obedience in the context of a morality-based relationship with God.
Christ would be to us of the same order with Moses; immeasurably greater of course; but still a prophet only in the same sense.
www.christinyou.net /pages/otbntc.html   (8128 words)

  
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As common as the allegation is, even a moment's reflection upon the vast difference between a polytheistic religion with the concept of anthropomorphic gods (gods with physical bodies) that are able to co-habit with human beings and the exalted monotheism of Judaism and Christianity shows one the absurdity of the parallel.
Nonetheless, establishing Christ's divinity was critical to the further unification of the Roman empire and to the new Vatican power base.
Christ was not merely a mortal man: true man He was, but He was the God-man, fully God, fully man, and as your Creator, you will stand before Him someday.
www.aomin.org /tdvc.html   (15139 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia
Jesus fulfilled Biblical prophecies in regard to the Messiah: he is the Messiah hoped for by the Jews, the heir to the throne of David.
Christian Love is basic to most forms of Christianity, based in part on Christ's answer to the question, "Which is the greatest commandment?" to which he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Some such prophecies include the following: The Hebrew people were expecting a descendant of King David, anointed by God, who would restore the Nation of Israel and the Davidic Kingdom, ushering in an everlasting age of peace on earth.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Christianity   (5462 words)

  
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The three people Jesus allegedly reanimates [Mk 5/Lk 8; Lk 7; Jn 11] might not actually have been clinically dead, and the gospels report not a single indication supporting such a diagnosis.
No non-trivial prophecy in the Bible has both a) been documented as having been made before the predicted event and b) had its fulfillment documented independently of the Bible itself.
Roger Penrose argues that the human mind is not computable because, given a formalization of one's mind and the Godel sentence for one's mind, a human mind allegedly could recognize the sentence as true whereas the formalized computation could not.
humanknowledge.net /HumanKnowledge.txt   (17891 words)

  
 Islam or Christianity? Jesus or Mohammed? Bible or Koran? Muslim or Christian?
In this study we compare the evidence for Islam to the evidence for Jesus as revealed in the Bible: fulfilled prophecy, miracles, and the resurrection.
The gift of prophecy was needed in an age when people did not yet have the complete written word to guide them.
Some prophecies, that Muslims claim refer to Mohammed, were actually fulfilled in Jesus.
www.biblestudylessons.com /cgi-bin/gospel_way/islam.php   (6751 words)

  
 The Third Commandment - Mission to Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In what is considered a dual prophecy about both the Prophet Jeremiah and Yahshua, scripture declares that included in the plot against their lives was the design to blot out their names:
In a prophecy fulfilled by Yahshua, the Prophet Jeremiah attested to this relationship between Yahweh and Yahshua:
It was in fulfillment of Jeremiah 23:26-27 and Ezekiel 39:7 that God’s personal name was removed from His Word.
www.missiontoisrael.org /3rdcom-rev-pt1.php   (10378 words)

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