Sickle of Truth

We conclude here with the reasoning’s behind our Lord having appeared as he did following his resurrection. “To regard our Lord’s glorious body as a body of flesh would not in the least account for his peculiar and sudden appearances during those forty days prior to his ascension. How could he so suddenly appear and then vanish? How was it that he kept himself almost constantly invisible during those forty days? And why was it that his appearance each time…

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We continue with the reasoning behind our Lord having appeared as he did following his resurrection. “That the bodies in which our Lord appeared were real human bodies, and not mere delusions, he gave them clearly to understand when he ate before them, and invited them to handle him and see that the body was real flesh and bones, saying, “Why are ye troubled? …Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me and see; for…

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We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection Having taking a brief look at the ransom and its importance we would now like to consider the reasoning’s behind our Lord appearing the way he did following his resurrection. “With our Lord, after his resurrection, it was simply a question of expediency as to which way of appearing to his disciples would best accomplish his object, of making known his resurrection and change of nature. Had he appeared as…

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We continue once again with our subject, Death and Resurrection In our previous post we were reviewing the importance of our Lord’s death (the ransom sacrifice) to our deliverance from the death penalty, that he had surrendered his very life, his soul for the sake of the world. “The whole point of Jesus’ post resurrection appearances was to convince his followers that he, indeed, was alive and risen but NOT that he had experienced a bodily resurrection. Jesus had said,…

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