Beliefs About Resurrection - Christianity

Question 1

According to the New Testament who will be resurrected + quote?

Answer 1

everyone who dies ‘in the faith of Christ’

Question 2

Quote from the Apostle’s creed (4th Century)?

Answer 2

‘I believe in the resurrection of the Body, the life everlasting’

Question 3

Luke 14:14 - teachings of Jesus?

Answer 3

‘you will be blessed….you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous’

Question 4

John 5:28-29 - teachings of Jesus?

Answer 4

‘all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out - those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.’

Question 5

John 6:40 - teachings of Jesus?

Answer 5

‘my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.’

Question 6

John 11:25 - teachings of Jesus?

Answer 6

“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even though they die”

Question 7

1 Corinthians 15:12 - letters of St Paul?

Answer 7

‘But if it is preached that Christ is raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?’

Question 8

Philippians 3:21 - letters of St Paul?

Answer 8

God ‘will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.’

Question 9

I Thessalonians 4:14 - letters of St Paul?

Answer 9

‘we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.’

Question 10

2 Timothy 2:11 - letters of St Paul?

Answer 10

‘if we died with him, we will also live with him’

Question 11

Revelation 20:12 - apocalyptic visions of St John?

Answer 11

‘I saw the dead…standing before the throne…The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.’

Question 12

Ezekiel 37:1-14 - Old Testament?

Answer 12

‘I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, does that were very dry…This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon your skin…the Sovereign Lord says…I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them…?

Question 13

Job 19:26-27 - Old Testament?

Answer 13

‘And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God…with my own eyes’

Question 14

Irenaeus against Heresies 1:10:1-4 (AD. 189) quote?

Answer 14

‘the rising up again of all flesh of all humanity’

Question 15

1 Corinthians 15:42

Answer 15

‘The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable’

Question 16

Augustine, the City of god 22:20:1 (AD 419) quote?

Answer 16

‘Perish the thought that the omnipotence of the creator is unable, for the raising of our bodies and for the restoring of them to life’