Resurrection Flashcards
What does it mean to say that Jesus rose from the dead?
Through the power of God, he overcame the power of death, and appeared to his disciples full of life from God.
What Jesus’ resurrection symbolic of?
Everlasting life that comes from God.
When is the concept of the soul first seen in the Bible?
God formed the man, Adam, from the dust of the ground, and ‘breathed into his nostrils the breath of life’.
Explain Plato’s idea of the world of forms.
It is made up of perfect ideas, and the things in the physical world are imperfect copies of the perfect ideas.
How does the world of forms link to the soul?
Plato believed the human soul separates from the body at death and goes to the world of forms and there contemplates the Form of the Good before being reincarnated.
What is the soul?
The inner existence of a human being, inhabiting the body during life and then leaving the body at death to return to God.
What type of resurrection did Augustine believe in?
Resurrection of the flesh.
What did Augustine believe about sin?
It was caused by Adam and Eve and had an effect on every human being born.
What did Aquinas believe about Jesus’ resurrection?
Jesus Christ rose from the dead in a wholly physical way, and then ascended to heaven in a physical form.
Explain spiritual resurrection
When the body comes to its end in death, the soul lives on with God.
What quotes from St Paul show that the resurrected ‘body’ will be different to the body that died?
‘It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body’
‘We shall not all sleep [die], but we shall all be changed.’
What does St Paul imply will happen to the soul after death?
It will be resurrected into a new heavenly body that had no physical existence on earth.
What did Paul use his certainty that Jesus was raised physically from the dead to argue?
The belief in the resurrection is both rational and essential for members of the emerging church.
For Paul, what was the resurrection the start of?
A new relationship between God and humans, one that was no longer damaged by the sin of Adam.
Why did the resurrection provide hope for Christians?
It would have been easy for Christians to give up their
faith rather than risk imprisonment, torture or death.
Belief in resurrection to eternal life was so attractive that rather than give up their faith, Christians were prepared to die bearing witness to Jesus Christ as Lord.
