Babylon is fallen, is fallen,...
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4
There seem to be some preaching that there was "no resurrection" of Jesus out there on the Streets of Babylon...
"The Archbishop of Canterbury is being asked replace a new ambassador to the Vatican after reports surfaced that he doesn't believe Jesus physically resurrected from death.
After Dr. John Shepherd was appointed as the new representative to Rome last week, a 2008 Easter sermon resurfaced in which he said: “It’s important for Christians to be set free from the idea that the resurrection was an extraordinary physical event, which restored to life Jesus’s original earthly body. The resurrection of Jesus ought not to be seen in physical terms, but as a new spiritual reality.”
He added how the disciples merely “felt his presence after his death” and the Gospel accounts in the Bible were not “historical records as we would write history today,” The Telegraph reports.
In his sermon, Shepherd claimed that the disappearance of Jesus’ body from the tomb, Jesus’ appearance behind locked doors and His vanishing from sight, His appearance as a gardener, inviting Thomas to place his hand into His pierced side, and the recognition of Jesus by disciples during a meal as documented in the Gospel accounts were simply “images of the triumph of the Spirit of God over all that physical thwarts and damages us in this life.”
Shepherd, who was Dean of Perth from 1990 to 2014, will be central to discussions with the Pope and will act as the de facto ambassador for the Archbishop, the Church of England, and other Anglican churches around the world."
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Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4
There seem to be some preaching that there was "no resurrection" of Jesus out there on the Streets of Babylon...
"The Archbishop of Canterbury is being asked replace a new ambassador to the Vatican after reports surfaced that he doesn't believe Jesus physically resurrected from death.
After Dr. John Shepherd was appointed as the new representative to Rome last week, a 2008 Easter sermon resurfaced in which he said: “It’s important for Christians to be set free from the idea that the resurrection was an extraordinary physical event, which restored to life Jesus’s original earthly body. The resurrection of Jesus ought not to be seen in physical terms, but as a new spiritual reality.”
He added how the disciples merely “felt his presence after his death” and the Gospel accounts in the Bible were not “historical records as we would write history today,” The Telegraph reports.
In his sermon, Shepherd claimed that the disappearance of Jesus’ body from the tomb, Jesus’ appearance behind locked doors and His vanishing from sight, His appearance as a gardener, inviting Thomas to place his hand into His pierced side, and the recognition of Jesus by disciples during a meal as documented in the Gospel accounts were simply “images of the triumph of the Spirit of God over all that physical thwarts and damages us in this life.”
Shepherd, who was Dean of Perth from 1990 to 2014, will be central to discussions with the Pope and will act as the de facto ambassador for the Archbishop, the Church of England, and other Anglican churches around the world."
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