Originally posted by domlo45
your number five has a flaw. how can god resurrect himself if he is dead jesus is not god. jesus entrusted his spirit to god to resurrect him WHY DO PEOPLE MAKE THE BIBLE OUT TO BE SOME BIG MYSTORY THE UNSEARCHABLE THE UNKNOWN ...[text shortened]... ot right because the bible does not contradict itself it is people that think it is unharmonious
There are paradoxes in the Bible. We who are told to come as a little child like to take all the words of the revelation in faith. You should know that Christ said to follow Him we had to deny ourselves. This sometimes means deny the typical human pride that seeks to logically reconcile paradoxes in His word so that we may arrive at some human made "consistency".
Now the Bible does say that God raised Jesus from the dead in some places. But in other places it says that He had the authority to both lay down His life and to take it up again:
" ... I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it again." (John 10:18)
At least in this passage we see that the Son of God Himself has authority to resurrect and take up His life again.
We see the same in chapter 2 -
"Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ... But He spoke of the temple of His body." (See John 2:19-21)
So though we have passages like
"God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory" (1 Pet. 1:21) we also see in JOhn 2:19-21 and John 10:18 that He Himself raises Himself from the dead. Since the Word was God (John 1:1) we must include Christ having authority to take up His life again as part of
"God, who raised Him from the dead" (1 Pet. 1:21)
In John 11:25 He says that He IS
"the resurrection and the life". So He Himself is the embodiment and power of resurrection in Himself.
This, I admit, is paradoxical. But some of us choose to be enlarged to embrace all that the Scirpture says.