Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Did Jesus self-resurrect?

I haven't done an exhaustive word search but these scriptures plainly answer the question no:

Acts 2:24 Whom God hath raised up
Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up
Acts 3:15 Whom God hath raised from the dead
Act 3:26 God, having raised up his Son Jesus
Acts 4:10 Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead

The only scripture in Acts that seems to refer to Jesus raising from the dead is
Acts 10:41 to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
But see the previous verse:
Acts 10:40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;

Jesus was dead. As in ... he's dead Jim. He was dead. He wasn't just apparently dead, he was actually dead. A dead person doesn't have any power. God can't die. But Jesus did, because he wasn't God, he was the Son of God with a different nature.

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