A Question I've always been afraid to ask

[OurLadyofSorrows]

This best explains the Resurrection of Christ to me and how this event is different from the miracles Christ employed in raising the dead himself

Christ’s Resurrection was not a return to earthly life, as was the case with the raisings from the dead that he had performed before Easter: Jairus’ daughter, the young man of Naim, Lazarus. These actions were miraculous events, but the persons miraculously raised returned by Jesus’ power to ordinary earthly life. At some particular moment they would die again. Christ’s Resurrection is essentially different. In his risen body he passes from the state of death to another life beyond time and space. At Jesus’ Resurrection his body is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit: he shares the divine life in his glorious state, so that St. Paul can say that Christ is “the man of heaven”.512

from
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a5p2.htm

Jesus really died, we must be careful not to fall into the thinking that defined the old heresies that early church councils rejected.

Plus it’s not like Jesus truly “died”. His human body did, and his human nature suffered, but His divine nature couldn’t, so there wasn’t a point where he was totally dead anyway. He was a lot less dead then than I will be when my time comes, right?

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a4p2.htm

Have a blessed and merry Christmas and New Year

 

[meltzerboy2]

From a Jewish perspective (there are always several), I think the Resurrection is so astonishing for Christians and Easter Sunday the holiest day on the Christian calendar, because in Christ’s resurrection, there is the hope of humans’ resurrection as well, a fundamental belief in Christianity that physical death of the body is not the end of life. Of course Christ’s birth is central to the faith as well, but humanity cannot hope to repeat such an occurrence as they can hope for the resurrection of a glorified body in the afterlife.

Interestingly, according to Judaism, the most important part of any person’s life is neither their birth nor their death, but how they spend their time in between these two events, that is, what kind of life they lead.

 

[JimG]

I’m saying that one of Jesus’ nature’s did not suffer or die, while the other clearly did.

Natures don’t suffer. Persons suffer. Persons die. Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity, suffered just as we would suffer in being crucified. Jesus died just as we will. To quote a line from one of Karl Keating’s books, God died. Because Jesus is a man, but he is also God. God died.

And when he rose, it was through his own power and in a glorified body. That has only happened once.

 

[Divine3]

When you truly love someone and are with them in their suffering, and watch them die. The resurrection means everything to every fiber of your being. And when Mary the Mother of God watched her son…the Son of God, fully human and fully Divine die in agony because of his desire to save us from eternal death …to save us from our sins…the resurrection has meaning beyond any human understanding.
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[ThisOne]

The same is true for Christians. But recognition at the point of death that one has spent one’s life in sin can save one, and I cannot believe the same is not true in Judaism. After all, it is relationship with Yahweh that counts in determining one’s final fate.