The third day He arose again from the dead

One of the most important teachings in the Christian faith is the resurrection of the dead. Co-ordinate to the New Testament, the apostles were witnesses to Christ's resurrection on the 3rd day. Christianity teaches that Christ rose in His literal, physical body.

We believe that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit rose Christ from the dead. The resurrection of the dead not just applies to Christ; but, to those who die every bit well. Christianity emphatically teaches the resurrection. Those who claim otherwise are something other than Christian. The Westminster Larger Catechism states the resurrection of Christ well.

Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, non having seen abuse in death (of which it was not possible for him to exist held), and having the very aforementioned body in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof (merely without mortality, and other mutual infirmities belonging to this life), really united to his soul, he rose again from the expressionless the third day past his ain power; whereby he alleged himself to be the Son of God, to have satisfied divine justice, to take vanquished death, and him that had power of it, and to be Lord of quick and expressionless: all which he did every bit a public person, the head of his church, for the justification, quickening in grace, support against enemies, and to assure them of their resurrection from the dead at the last day.
Westminster Larger Canon Question 52

The apostles taught that the Old Testament prophets spoke not only of Christ's resurrection, but of the resurrection of the expressionless for those who believe in Christ.

Some say at that place is no resurrection

During Christ's time, there was a group of Jews, called the Sadducee'south, who believed there was no resurrection of the dead. Christ addressed this pedagogy in the gospels of Matthew, Marker, and Luke. He said,

On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Him and questioned Him,. . .  Just Jesus answered and said to them, "You lot are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures, or the power of God. "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are similar angels in heaven. "But regarding the resurrection of the expressionless, have y'all not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob '? He is not the God of the dead simply of the living."
(Mat 22:23-32 NAS see too Mar 12:18 and Luk 20:27)

This passage expressly teaches that there is a resurrection of the dead. Jesus uses Exodus 3:6 equally His proof of the resurrection.

Believing in the resurrection of Christ is important

The conventionalities that God volition raise usa from the dead and that Christ rose from the expressionless is an extremely important doctrine. Those who negate, explain away, or deny this didactics cannot possibly claim to exist Christian. Paul states,

Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the expressionless, how practise some among yous say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, non even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith likewise is vain. Moreover we are even found to be fake witnesses of God, because nosotros witnessed against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are non raised. For if the dead are not raised, not fifty-fifty Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your organized religion is worthless; yous are nonetheless in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied. Merely now Christ has been raised from the dead, the start fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a human came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all dice, so besides in Christ all shall be fabricated live.
(1Co fifteen:12-22 NAS)

Paul and then adamantly teaches the resurrection of Christ that, he says, if there is no resurrection, then Christianity is false and a prevarication. This sets those who deny the resurrection outside of Christianity. Denying the resurrection is the educational activity of some other religion, which, has no right to call itself Christian.

There were witnesses to Christ's resurrection

The apostles claimed to be witnesses to His resurrection. This is plant in John and many places in Acts.

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the commencement day of the week, and when the doors were close where the disciples were, for fearfulness of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you." And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples therefore rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
(Joh 20:xix-twenty NAS)
simply put to expiry the Prince of life, the 1 whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.
(Act three:15 NAS)
And with groovy ability the apostles were giving witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all.
(Act 4:33 NAS)
"This Jesus God raised upwards again, to which we are all witnesses.
(Act 2:32 NAS)

We are confident that the resurrection of Christ is true because the apostles were centre witnesses to Christ's resurrection. They truly saw Him in His trunk, dined with Him, spoke to Him, and touched Him.

Christ rose in His trunk

The apostles taught that Christ rose in His literal body. The New Testament states,

Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it upwardly." The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it upward in three days?" But He was speaking of the temple of His trunk. When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.
(Joh 2:19-22 NAS)
The other disciples therefore were saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I shall see in His hands the banner of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe." And later on viii days again His disciples were inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst, and said, "Peace exist with you." Then He said to Thomas, "Reach hither your finger, and see My hands; and attain hither your hand, and put it into My side; and be not unbelieving, but believing." Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Considering you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did non see, and yet believed."
(Joh 20:25-29 NAS)

Jesus did non raise simply as a spirit or an bogeyman. Nor was He a hallucination of the apostles mind. He rose from the expressionless in His actual torso. The 2d Helvetic Confession states this well.

We believe and teach that the same Jesus Christ our Lord, in his true mankind in which he was crucified and died, rose again from the dead, and that not another flesh was raised other than the one buried, or that a spirit was taken up instead of the flesh, simply that he retained his truthful torso. Therefore, while his disciples thought they saw the spirit of the Lord, he showed them his hands and feet which were marked by the prints of the nails and wounds, and added: "Run into my easily and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and run into, for a spirit has not mankind and basic as you see that I take" (Luke 24:39).
Second Helvetic Confession; Chapter XI. Of Jesus Christ, True God and Man, the Only Savior of the World – CHRIST IS TRULY RISEN FROM THE Expressionless.

Who raised Christ from the Expressionless?

The resurrection of Christ was washed by God. What nosotros hateful past this is that the Father raised Christ from the dead, the Holy Spirit raised Christ from the expressionless, and Christ raised Himself from the expressionless.

God raised Christ from the dead

Merely God raised Him from the dead;
(Act thirteen:30 NAS)
that if yous confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your middle that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;
(Rom 10:9 NAS)

The Father raised Christ from the expressionless

Paul, an apostle (not sent from men, nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the expressionless),
(Gal 1:ane NAS)
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Male parent of glory, may give to y'all a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. . . .  These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the expressionless, and seated Him at His correct hand in the heavenly places,
(Eph 1:17-20 NAS)

Christ raised Himself from the expressionless

For this reason the Male parent loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take information technology once again. "No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it downwards on My own initiative. I have authorization to lay it down, and I accept authority to take it upwardly again. This commandment I received from My Father."
(Joh 10:17-18 NAS See also Joh 2:19-21)

The Holy Spirit raised Christ from the dead

Just if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the expressionless will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.
(Rom viii:11 NAS)
who was alleged the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the expressionless, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,
(Rom one:4 NAS)

The Begetter, Son, and Holy Spirit is God and He raised Christ from the expressionless.

The Apostles taught the resurrection as the promise through the prophets

The apostles not simply witnessed the resurrection of Christ, they also constitute the resurrection in the Onetime Testament every bit prophecy of what was promised to God's people at decease. Christ said,

"Just that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage near the burning bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
(Luk 20:37 NAS)

Christ clearly was teaching that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were raised from the dead at the fourth dimension of their expiry. Paul says the hope given to the prophets was the resurrection from the dead.

. . . fix apart for the gospel of God, which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power past the resurrection from the expressionless, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord, . . .
(Rom 1:i-5 NAS)

Paul explains that "the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to achieve" was the resurrection of the dead which is only possible through Christ.

"And now I am continuing trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers; the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, equally they earnestly serve God night and 24-hour interval. And for this hope, O Male monarch, I am being accused past Jews. "Why is information technology considered incredible among you people if God does heighten the dead? "So then, I thought to myself that I had to practice many things hostile to the proper noun of Jesus of Nazareth.
(Act 26:6-9 NAS)
For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to decease. "And so, having obtained help from God, I stand up to this day testifying both to small and bang-up, stating nil but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to accept place; that the Christ was to suffer, and that past reason of His resurrection from the dead He should exist the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.
(Act 26:21-23 NAS)

The "Promised Land" that the prophets were looking forward to was not an earthly country; but, the paradise in heaven reserved for them. Only obtainable through the resurrection of the expressionless.

All these died in religion, without receiving the promises, just having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the globe. For those who say such things make information technology clear that they are seeking a country of their ain. And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to render. Merely every bit it is, they desire a improve country, that is a heavenly 1. Therefore God is not aback to be chosen their God; for He has prepared a city for them. By religion Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; it was he to whom it was said, "In Isaac your descendants shall be called." He considered that God is able to raise men even from the expressionless; from which he also received him back as a type.
(Heb 11:13-nineteen NAS)

The apostles were able to teach the resurrection because the Sometime Testament clearly teaches the resurrection of the expressionless.

The Resurrection of the dead in the Quondam Attestation

The Old Attestation has plenty of places that talk well-nigh the resurrection of the dead. Considering of Christs resurrection, God's people will raise from the dead.

He will revive united states after two days; He volition heighten us up on the third day That we may live before Him
(Hos 6:two NAS)
For G wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt Thousand permit Thy Holy One to undergo decay. Thou wilt brand known to me the path of life; In Thy presence is fulness of joy; In Thy right hand there are pleasures forever.
(Psa xvi:10-11 NAS)
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For He will receive me. Selah
(Psa 49:xv NAS)
Your dead will live; Their corpses volition ascension. Yous who lie in the grit, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth volition give birth to the departed spirits.
(Isa 26:xix NAS)
And many of those who sleep in the grit of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting antipathy.
(Dan 12:2 NAS)
Even subsequently my skin is destroyed, Even so from my flesh I shall run across God;
(Job 19:26 NAS)

These passages show that at the time of expiry, the resurrection occurs.

Events that occurred when Christ rose from the dead

The resurrection of the expressionless is a direct event of Christ'southward resurrection. Christ said,

Truly, truly, I say to y'all, an hour is coming and at present is, when the dead shall hear the vocalisation of the Son of God; and those who hear shall live. "For just as the Father has life in Himself, all the same He gave to the Son as well to have life in Himself; and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. "Do not marvel at this; for an hr is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those who did the skillful deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
(Joh v:25-29 NAS)

When Christ rose from the expressionless, those who did proficient deeds were raised to resurrection of life and those who did evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment. Some of those who were expressionless already were raised at the fourth dimension of Christs resurrection. All the rest of the people who died were resurrected at the fourth dimension of their death.

Those who were not raised at the fourth dimension of their death, were raised at the time of Christ'south resurrection.

and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs subsequently His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.
(Mat 27:5-53 NAS)

These are the ones whom Christ preached to, while in "Hell," during His expiry in the tomb.

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