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How can Christ be the firstfruits of the resurrection when others were raised before him?
There is no point is in trying to harmonize this apparent contradiction. Paul's writing presents strictly historical and ignores all legendary stories such as the Matthew 27:52-53, and even the virgin ...
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How can Christ be the firstfruits of the resurrection when others were raised before him?
TL;DR: The resurrection that Paul is talking about is a permanent resurrection as an immortal spirit being, and has nothing to do with individual resurrections back to physical life that have occurred ...
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How can Christ be the firstfruits of the resurrection when others were raised before him?
Matt 27:50-53 contains a list of events:
Jesus expired and at that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom
the earth quaked
the rocks split open
the tombs broke open
the ...
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What are the alternatives to marriage in 1 Cor 7:9?
The choices Paul set out were to either marry, or be unmarried. But, if they remained single, they would have to be strong enough not to give in to fornication, for that is a sin before God.
But, we ...
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In what sense was Paul considered a false witness to Christ's resurrection?
We need to follow through the logic of the argument.
Paul and the other disciples have been witnessing that Christ rose from the dead (vv1-11).
So IF (and only if) Christ did NOT rise from the dead, ...
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Did Paul refer to James as a literal brother of Jesus?
There is a misconception about declaring Judas as the brother of Jesus:
1 - In his own Epistle Judas declares himself brother of James and servant of Jesus;
2- In the same Ecclesiastical History, ...
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Psalms 8:3-6 - has this been manipulated by Paul to imply it relates to Jesus?
It is in Hebrews chapter 2 that Psalm 8 is directly and fully quoted, so this answer deals with what the writer to those first century Hebrew Christians explained. That might not be the apostle Paul. ...
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Psalms 8:3-6 - has this been manipulated by Paul to imply it relates to Jesus?
Not at all unnaturally, but very logically or better theologically does Paul relate this Psalm to the Lord.
Here's how.
Of course, Paul, no less than John, understands that the Son is the co-Principle ...
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Psalms 8:3-6 - has this been manipulated by Paul to imply it relates to Jesus?
You are confusing the modern Hebrew translation of Psalm 8 with the texts which were available to Paul and the NT authors at the time. Commonly the New Testament tends to cite the LXX when referring ...
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Is the Son second in authority under God the Father? 1 Corinthians 15:24-28
One should consider the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ from two perspectives: a) in His divine, also pre-incarnate, or Logos way, and b) His God-man, that is to say, incarnate way, when the Person ...
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Why are the verb singular and the pronoun plural in 1 Corinthians 4:6?
That neuter plural subjects normally take a singular noun is part of the grammar I learned in Greek class. But, here is the section from Dr. Wallace's grammar that explains the full details.
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Is the Son second in authority under God the Father? 1 Corinthians 15:24-28
You have to take into account that we know Christ had to set aside some of his power, divinity, and knowledge to become a human on earth. To be faithful, true, and honest, he couldn’t know that day or ...
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Why are the verb singular and the pronoun plural in 1 Corinthians 4:6?
This is rather simple and uncomplicated. Let me provide an explanatory translation of the clause in question buried in 1 Cor 4:6. (See 2 Peter 1:21)
... so that you may learn not to go beyond the ...
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Is love a spiritual gift or a spiritual fruit?
Perhaps the best way to think about this question is to identify whether those options are mutually exclusive (i.e. an "either-or"). Physicists use to ask the question, "Is light a wave ...
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In 1 Co 11:26, is Paul teaching that Lord's Supper would reach an end?
This is an astute question. Without question the use of the word 'until' expresses duration or length up onto a specified point in space or time: until or as far as. So it is clear in 1 Cor. 11:26 ...
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