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| Keywords: Noel-coypel-the-resurrection-of-christ-1700.jpg Jesus is Lord Artwork Creator Noël Coypel La résurrection du Christ The resurrection of Jesus is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ miraculously returned to life on the Sunday following the Friday on which he was executed by crucifixion It is the central tenet of Christian faith and theology and part of the Nicene Creed On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures 12 In the New Testament after the Romans crucify Jesus he is anointed and buried in a new tomb by Joseph of Arimathea but God raises him from the dead3 and he appears to many people over a span of forty days before his ascension to Heaven to sit at the Right Hand of God Christians celebrate the resurreh u9ction of Jesus on Easter Sunday the third day after Good Friday the day of his crucifixion Easter's date corresponds roughly with Passover the Jewish observance associated with the Exodus that is fixed for the night of the Full moon near the time of the spring equinox 4 The Apostle Paul wrote that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures that he was buried that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures 1 Cor 15 3b-4 Thus the death and resurrection of Christ were proclaimed as belonging together at the very heart of the gospel forcefully placing the full weight of faith on both the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ 5 by stating if Christ has not been raised our preaching is useless and so is your faith 1 Cor 15 14 In fact Paul further claims that belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus is so central to salvation that if Christ has not been raised your faith is futile; you are still in your sins Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost If only for this life we have hope in Christ we are of all people most to be pitied 1 Cor 15 17-19 Skeptical biblical scholars have questioned the historicity of the resurrection story for centuries; for example nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century biblical scholarship dismissed resurrection narratives as late legendary accounts 6 Some scholars consider the biblical accounts of Jesus' resurrection as derived from the experiences of Jesus' followers and of Apostle Paul 7 E P Sanders concludes that Jesus ™ followers and later Paul had resurrection experiences is in my judgment a fact He writes that when Jesus was executed his followers fled or hid but their hopes were renewed when they saw him alive again 8 p 58 1700 Institution Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen accession number 2000 3 1 object history credit line http //www 1st-art-gallery com/Noel-Coypel/The-Resurrection-Of-Christ -1700 html PD-old-100 Baroque paintings of Resurrection of Christ Noël Coypel 18th-century paintings of Resurrection of Christ | ||||
