The resurrection of Jesus is the Christian belief that after being put
to death to take the punishment for sins Jesus rose again from the dead. 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".
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 dead 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.
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” 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". Some scholars consider the biblical accounts
of Jesus' resurrection as derived from the experiences of Jesus' followers and
of the apostle Paul. E.P. Sanders states
"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. :p.58
Christians celebrate the resurrection 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 and also with the pre-Christian Germanic Ēostre.
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