Who Brought Jesus Back from the Dead?

[DialecticSkeptic]

Jesus was a mortal human and he died. God, his Father SAVED him from death.

God raised Jesus ... [snip rest]

Who Brought Jesus Back from the Dead?​

The Bible has much to say about the mode of Jesus resurrection. It testifies that the three members of the Trinity were involved in Jesus resurrection.

God the Father raised Jesus​

The Bible says that God the Father brought Jesus back from the dead:

"This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it. So then, exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear" (Acts 2:32-33).
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Paul wrote:

"Therefore, we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life" (Rom 6:4).
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Paul wrote to the Galatians:

"From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead) ..." (Gal 1:1).
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By raising Jesus from the dead, God the Father reversed the death sentence that was pronounced on him and exalted him to the Lord of glory.

Jesus brought himself back from the dead​

Jesus also arose by his own power:

"So then the Jewish leaders responded, ‘What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?’ Jesus replied, ‘Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again’" (John 2:18-19).
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Speaking of his life, Jesus declared:

"No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father" (John 10:18).
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The Holy Spirit raised Jesus​

The third person of the Trinity was also involved in the resurrection:

"Moreover, if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you" (Rom 8:11).
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Peter wrote:

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit" (1 Pet 3:18).
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God Raised Jesus​

We also have statements that God raised Jesus. Peter said:

"But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power" (Acts 2:24).
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Peter said to Cornelius:

"... but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen, ..." (Acts 10:40).
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Paul wrote:

"But God raised him from the dead, ..." (Acts 13:30).
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In these contexts, God could refer to the Father or to the entire Trinity.

Summary​

All three members of the Trinity—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—were involved in the resurrection of Jesus. The resurrection is individually ascribed to each one of them.

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Original article located at: Don Stewart, "Who Brought Jesus Back from the Dead?" Blue Letter Bible (n.d.).

 

[TrevorL]

Greetings Dialectic Skeptic,

The Bible has much to say about the mode of Jesus resurrection.

Yes.

It testifies that the three members of the Trinity were involved in Jesus resurrection.

It testifies that God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit were involved, but there is no such thing as a Trinity.

Kind regards
Trevor

 

[prism]

Jesus brought Jesus back from the dead.

John 5:21 NIV
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.

John 14:6 NIV
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 10:18 NIV
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

 

[CherubRam]

Psalm 16:10
because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.

Acts 13:34
God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

 

[Mr GLee]

Who Brought Jesus Back from the Dead?​

The Bible has much to say about the mode of Jesus resurrection. It testifies that the three members of the Trinity were involved in Jesus resurrection.

God the Father raised Jesus​

The Bible says that God the Father brought Jesus back from the dead:

"This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it. So then, exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear" (Acts 2:32-33).

Hi, I would offer define the word dead and where does it come from?

Death according to what?

It would seem one of the many words that seem to cause division, isolation. weeping misunderstandings

John 11:35 Jesus wept.

Jesus was wounded for our transgression it pleased the father to bruise the heel of the Son of man Jesus and crush the head of the serpent.

Living sacrifice poured it out on dying flesh .

 

[Eleanor]

Greetings Dialectic Skeptic,
Yes.
It testifies that God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit were involved, but there is no such thing as a Trinity.
Kind regards
Trevor

The Father is God,
The Son is God (Jn 1:1, 14, 18),
The Holy Spirit is God.

Call it what you want, there are three persons in the one God.

 

[prism]

but there is no such thing as a Trinity.

What would you call it then?

 

[DialecticSkeptic]

Greetings Dialectic Skeptic,

Hi there.

[The Bible] testifies that God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit were involved, ...

I appreciate this statement for being a closer approximation of the truth. However, to say that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were merely "involved" is transparently imprecise—"involved" is a vague term that sidesteps the weight of the argument and the scriptural evidence. The assertion that "God the Father saved Jesus from death" is incomplete if one does not also recognize that Jesus possessed sovereign authority over his own life and death, including the power to raise himself.

... there is no such thing as a Trinity.

That assertion is wholly unsubstantiated at this stage.

 

[TrevorL]

Greetings Eleanor, prism and Greetings again Dialectic Skeptic,

The Father is God, The Son is God (Jn 1:1, 14, 18), The Holy Spirit is God.
Call it what you want, there are three persons in the one God.

What would you call it then?

That assertion is wholly unsubstantiated at this stage.

My objection to your earlier post, was that as soon as a Trinitarian sees God the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit they immediately equate this with the Trinity.

I was brought up at home and at Sunday School to believe that there is One God, the Father and that our Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit is God's Power. At the age of 19, one of our Youth Leaders expounded the subject that we call "God Manifestation" and this included some aspects of the meaning of the Yahweh Name. That was over 60 years ago, and since then my understanding of this theme and Name has expanded and consolidated. In all this time I have never accepted the Trinity or seen any reason to adopt this. During this period of time I have gradually come to understand some of what I could label the difficult passages that are mainly used by Trinitarians, for example John 8:24,28,56-58 and John 10:30-36 and consider that I properly understand that these teach that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Now I am not trying to turn this thread into a debate between Biblical Unitarianism and Trinitarianism, but I am willing to state my position and also object to the Trinity concept.

I appreciate this statement for being a closer approximation of the truth. However, to say that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were merely "involved" is transparently imprecise—"involved" is a vague term that sidesteps the weight of the argument and the scriptural evidence. The assertion that "God the Father saved Jesus from death" is incomplete if one does not also recognize that Jesus possessed sovereign authority over his own life and death, including the power to raise himself.

Let us deal firstly with the Holy Spirit. I consider the statement that God the Father raised Jesus from the dead as equivalent to saying the Holy Spirit raised Jesus. God used His Power to bring Jesus back to life and make him functional again. When Jesus raised Lazarus after four days it was through the power of the Holy Spirit.

I have difficulty with the latter part of your statement, that Jesus "possessed .. the power to raise himself". I have a number of possible explanations, but I believe that Jesus was a human and during the three days he was a dead human with no consciousness. Concerning these possible explanations, I would need to convince myself which one is correct before I try to persuade others.

Kind regards
Trevor

 

[Eleanor]

Greetings Eleanor, prism and Greetings again Dialectic Skeptic,
My objection to your earlier post, was that as soon as a Trinitarian sees God the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit they immediately equate this with the Trinity.
I was brought up at home and at Sunday School to believe that there is One God, the Father and that our Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and
the Holy Spirit is God's Power.

Nevertheless, the NT presents Father, Son and Holy Spirit (neuter gender) as persons:
1) with personal pronouns (he, him - masculine gender),
2) personal titles (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), and
3) personal functions (intelligence, will, affections),
4) personal actions (speaking, deciding, forbidding, testifying, searching into secrets, showing the future, sending out missionaries, interceding, enabling, leading, generating Christ's body and soul, Mt 1:18).

The Spirit is personified throughout the NT because the Holy Spirit is a person, as are the Father and Son--three persons in one God (Mt 28:19).

At the age of 19, one of our Youth Leaders expounded the subject that we call "God Manifestation" and this included some aspects of the meaning of the Yahweh Name. That was over 60 years ago, and since then my understanding of this theme and Name has expanded and consolidated. In all this time I have never accepted the Trinity or seen any reason to adopt this. During this period of time I have gradually come to understand some of what I could label the difficult passages that are mainly used by Trinitarians, for example John 8:24,28,56-58 and John 10:30-36 and consider that I properly understand that these teach that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Now I am not trying to turn this thread into a debate between Biblical Unitarianism and Trinitarianism, but I am willing to state my position and also object to the Trinity concept.

 

[prism]

I was brought up at home and at Sunday School to believe that there is One God, the Father and that our Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit is God's Power. At the age of 19, one of our Youth Leaders expounded the subject that we call "God Manifestation" and this included some aspects of the meaning of the Yahweh Name. That was over 60 years ago, and since then my understanding of this theme and Name has expanded and consolidated. In all this time I have never accepted the Trinity or seen any reason to adopt this. During this period of time I have gradually come to understand some of what I could label the difficult passages that are mainly used by Trinitarians, for example John 8:24,28,56-58 and John 10:30-36 and consider that I properly understand that these teach that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Now I am not trying to turn this thread into a debate between Biblical Unitarianism and Trinitarianism, but I am willing to state my position and also object to the Trinity concept

You still didn't answer my question, 'what would you call them'? (The Father, Son and Holy Spirit).

 

[TrevorL]

Greetings again Eleanor and prism,

The Spirit is personified throughout the NT because the Holy Spirit is a person, as are the Father and Son--three persons in one God (Mt 28:19)

I read this as saying that they have ONE NAME:
Matthew 28:18–20 (KJV): 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
I understand that the One God, Yahweh, God the Father has revealed this Name as Yahweh or something similar in Hebrew, and the narrative of the NT reveals that this Name is revealed in and through God's Son, the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the fulfillment of the Name of who God would be/become, "I will be". I find no convincing argument that the Holy Spirit is a Person. I believe that there is One God, the Father.

What would you call it then?

You still didn't answer my question, 'what would you call them'? (The Father, Son and Holy Spirit).

I am glad you have progressed as I considered your earlier question using "it" was inappropriate. I suggest we need to follow what the Bible reveals. We need to call and address God the Father as God the Father, even as Jesus teaches us to pray "Our Father". In my fellowship we often say "Yahweh" when reading the KJV "LORD", and I consider this appropriate, as there are two different words in the OT usually translated LORD and Lord Psalm 110:1. Here "LORD" is the One God. Yahweh, God the Father and "Lord" is our Lord Jesus Christ, David's Lord, the Son of God. We encounter the word "Jesus", for Jesus and we are also taught that Jesus is the "Christ" or Messiah, the Anointed One, the Son of God. He is also our "Lord", so we could use the expression "our Lord Jesus Christ". We encounter the phrase the Holy Spirit and this is appropriate, speaking of God's special power which He uses to accomplish His purpose, for example, in the conception of our Lord Jesus Christ in the womb of Mary Matthew 1:20-21, Luke 1:34-35, thus making Jesus the Son of God, His Father.

Kind regards
Trevor

 

[prism]

I am glad you have progressed as I considered your earlier question using "it" was inappropriate. I suggest we need to follow what the Bible reveals. We need to call and address God the Father as God the Father, even as Jesus teaches us to pray "Our Father". In my fellowship we often say "Yahweh" when reading the KJV "LORD", and I consider this appropriate, as there are two different words in the OT usually translated LORD and Lord Psalm 110:1. Here "LORD" is the One God. Yahweh, God the Father and "Lord" is our Lord Jesus Christ, David's Lord, the Son of God. We encounter the word "Jesus", for Jesus and we are also taught that Jesus is the "Christ" or Messiah, the Anointed One, the Son of God. He is also our "Lord", so we could use the expression "our Lord Jesus Christ". We encounter the phrase the Holy Spirit and this is appropriate, speaking of God's special power which He uses to accomplish His purpose, for example, in the conception of our Lord Jesus Christ in the womb of Mary Matthew 1:20-21, Luke 1:34-35, thus making Jesus the Son of God, His Father.

Instead of the word 'Trinity', what would you use?

 

[Eleanor]

Greetings again Eleanor and prism,

I read this as saying that they have ONE NAME:
Matthew 28:18–20 (KJV): 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

I understand that the One God, Yahweh, God the Father has revealed this Name as Yahweh or something similar in Hebrew, and the narrative of the NT reveals that this Name is revealed in and through God's Son, the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the fulfillment of the Name of who God would be/become, "I will be".
I find no convincing argument that the Holy Spirit is a Person. I believe that there is One God, the Father.

"He" and "him" are personal pronouns; i,e, pronouns denoting personhood.

The plain grammar of the NT disagrees with you.

I am glad you have progressed as I considered your earlier question using "it" was inappropriate. I suggest we need to follow what the Bible reveals. We need to call and address God the Father as God the Father, even as Jesus teaches us to pray "Our Father". In my fellowship we often say "Yahweh" when reading the KJV "LORD", and I consider this appropriate, as there are two different words in the OT usually translated LORD and Lord Psalm 110:1. Here "LORD" is the One God. Yahweh, God the Father and "Lord" is our Lord Jesus Christ, David's Lord, the Son of God. We encounter the word "Jesus", for Jesus and we are also taught that Jesus is the "Christ" or Messiah, the Anointed One, the Son of God. He is also our "Lord", so we could use the expression "our Lord Jesus Christ". We encounter the phrase the Holy Spirit and this is appropriate, speaking of God's special power which He uses to accomplish His purpose, for example, in the conception of our Lord Jesus Christ in the womb of Mary Matthew 1:20-21, Luke 1:34-35, thus making Jesus the Son of God, His Father.

Kind regards
Trevor

 

[TrevorL]

Greetings again Eleanor and prism,

"He" and "him" are personal pronouns; i,e, pronouns denoting personhood.
The plain grammar of the NT disagrees with you.

I consider that this is a personification based upon the unique characteristics of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus likens the Holy Spirit to a Comforter because of its great influence and effect upon the individual who had received the Holy Spirit. It was if Jesus Himself was with them personally.

Instead of the word 'Trinity', what would you use?

God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Holy Spirit. The Trinity is an erroneous doctrine that claims that there are three Persons and yet One God, and somehow this is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, but not three Gods, only One. Why do you demand that I should use the word "Trinity", when this is such a collection of erroneous doctrine?

On the subject of the resurrection, I believe that Jesus' involvement goes as far as the fact that he kept himself Holy, in full fellowship with the Father, and without sin, and according to the love of God and God's righteousness, this necessitated his resurrection. But I believe that it was the One God, Yahweh, God the Father who raised Jesus from the dead:
Psalm 21:1–6 (KJV): 1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! 2 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. 3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head. 4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever. 5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. 6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

Kind regards
Trevor