Ch. 11: What Is the Resurrection? Part 1

Which New Testament books speak of Christ's resurrection, depend on Christ being resurrected, and/or Christ being alive today?

• All 4 Gospels

• Acts

• All the Epistles

• Revelation

• All the epistles except Hebrews

The Epistles depend on what assumption?

• That Jesus is alive and is the exalted Savior who will come back one day to reign over the whole earth.

• That Jesus came back from the dead with a body that was no differently than His body before His death.

• That Jesus was resurrected but cannot be King until the world fades away.

• That Jesus' death alone saved us, and His resurrection has nothing to do with our salvation.

Whom does the Bible say raised Jesus from the dead?

• the Father

• Jesus Himself

• the Holy Spirit

• God (no specifics)

• only the Father and the Spirit

How is Christ's resurrection different than other stories of people being raised from the dead?

• Christ's resurrection body is made perfect and no longer subject to weakness or death.

• In Christ's resurrection, only His Spirit resurrected; His body stayed dead.

• The Bible says that Jesus could walk through walls.

• Jesus could no longer eat fish.

How does Christ being resurrected as the firstfruits of a new kind of human life give you hope as a Christian?