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Three Days and Three Nights – Hebrew Idiom for Three Consecutive Calendar Days
Jonah’s use of “three days and three nights” repeated by Jesus in prophesying his own death, burial, and resurrection has led to some confusion. As you may recall, in Jonah, it is written: Jonah 1:15-17So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. Then the…
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Is There Any Evidence of Jesus’ Resurrection?
Someone recently kindly suggested a debate on the topic of “whether there is any evidence for Jesus’ resurrection.” The most surprising thing to me is that anyone would think such a topic is debatable. Normally the question people have is over the weight or credibility of the evidence, not whether there is evidence or not.…
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Echos of the Great Earthquake?
In Matthew’s gospel, we are treated to the only direct account of a remarkable resurrection: Matthew 27:51-53 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which…
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Christ is Risen!
Truly he is Risen! 1Co 15:14 & 20 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. … But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Romans 8:33-34 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect?…
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The Real Francis Turretin on: the Resurrection
Turretin on the Resurrection Here, first of all, we ought to distinguish between the foundation on which the faith of the resurrection rests, and the arguments by which that faith is confirmed. The only foundation is the omnipotent will of God, revealed in His word. But the arguments are manifold, and are drawn partly from…