Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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CHAPTER VIII.
RESURRECTION
“Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead."- Romans.
"But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ : whom he has not raised up, if so be that the dead rise not."--St. Paul.
In his first epistle to the Corinthians, St. Paul, the most philosophical of the apostles of Jesus, unhesitatingly bases the whole of the 'new' doctrine on the power of the soul to rise from the dead, for if there is to be no conquest of death in the experience of the aspiring jiva, vain, indeed, is the teaching of religion, and equally vain the promises of a life more full and abundant and everlasting in nirvana. But what does this conquest of death, without which religion would be reduced to a sorry farce, signify ? Paul gives us no learned dissertation or discourse, but merely cites the instance of Jesus in proof of his statement. He does not, however, claim for his Master any extra credit for any special, or divine birth, but puts him on a par with the rest of mankind, claiming no more justification for his resurrection than that of any other man