94) He HAS BEEN Raised! He HAS BEEN Raised, Indeed!

There is a popular declaration among Christians the world over this time of year. Quoting the messenger at Jesus’s tomb the declaration is made, “His is risen!” And then people respond: “He is risen indeed!”. 

 

But that English declaration is actually incorrect, or is an incorrect translation. The angelic declaration about Jesus is not about what Jesus did, but about what someone else, namely God, did to Jesus. In Greek, the declaration is a passive.  Jesus was acted upon. He received the action of the verb in the sentence. A more correct declaration is “He has been raised!” or, “He was raised”.  That is, someone else raised Jesus.

For full text notes of this episode, click here:

https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/04/he-has-been-raised-he-has-been-raised.html

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 Did God Die

Traditional Christianity seems to be really confused as to just who died on that cross some 2000 years ago. I hear conflicting claims. Often people, even preachers, will say that “God died”, like the Charles Wesley hymn, “Amazing love! how can it be, That thou, my God, shouldst die for me?”

 

Or Max Lucato, touted as a New York Times Best Selling (Christian) Author who posted recently about a book he wrote saying: “God is on a cross. The Creator of the universe is being executed.”

 

If your theology brings you to a place where you think God died, you better re-think your theology. Such a claim is completely non-biblical, contradictory to the Bible. The Bible says categorically that God is immortal. God does not die (Rom. 1:23, 1 Tim 1:17 “immortal, invisible, the only God”, 1 Tim. 6:16).

 

Other Christians will say, “Well, it was only the human Jesus who died, or the humanity of Jesus who died”.  My response is that a dual-natured Jesus is made up figment of peoples’ imagination, and he is a liar. The Bible never says the God-man who died is our mediator. The Bible only says the man Christ Jesus died and is our mediator (e.g., Rom. 5:15, 1 Cor. 15:21, 1 Tim 2:4-5).  
I suggest that the so-called dual-natured, fully-god-fully-man Jesus of modern Christianity is a dual-minded liar. Ask your Jesus a question: Did you die? If your Jesus says “No (the god Jesus) and yes (the human Jesus)”, he is a liar and is not the biblical Jesus. If your Jesus hesitates and has to explain how something of him died but something else of him didn’t die, you have a lying, false Jesus.

 

The biblical Jesus of Nazareth, the son of God, the Lord Messiah declares for all to hear: “I was dead” (Rev. 1:18).

Two verses in John’s Gospel? Did Jesus Raise Himself from the dead?” One God Report Podcast #14

 

Web resources for this episode:

Full text of podcast:

 https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/04/he-has-been-raised-he-has-been-raised.html

NET Translation and Note on Matthew 27:6

https://netbible.org/bible/Matthew+28

 

Revised English Version note on Matthew 27:6
https://www.revisedenglishversion.com/Matthew/28/6

 

Did Jesus Raise Himself from the Dead?
https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2020/04/did-jesus-raise-himself-from-dead-john.html

 

Charles Wesley Song
https://www.invubu.com/music/show/song/Charles-Wesley/And-Can-It-Be%252C-That-I-Should-Gain.html

 

Max Lucato quote
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=762063085288722&set=pb.100044551114485.-2207520000.

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