Three days after Jesus’ crucifixion he was raised to life. The term given when someone rises from the dead is called resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus happened because a prophecy had to be fulfilled. The prophecy being;
“the son of man must suffer much and be rejected, he will be put to death, but three days later will be raised to life.”
Luke 9:22
Therefore if Jesus’ resurrection did not take place there would be no messiah. The resurrection is the foundation of Christianity and the Christian faith, without the prophecy being fulfilled it may well be true that Christianity may not have begun, as something as great as being raised from the dead sows that god is all powerful and can defeat even death.
God came to earth as human form, he needed to do this because he wanted his creation to return to him. Before Jesus had come to earth it was impossible for the creation of god to reach him as they were all so imperfect whilst god was perfect. The reason behind man being imperfect goes back to when Adam and Eve ate an apple from the tree of knowledge when they were forbidden to eat it, this then gave man freewill, and do both right and wrong. Humans were punished for Adam and Eves sin and after they die they return to the dust from which Adam was first made out of however God loved his creation ad wanted them to return to him in paradise. So therefore he came down to Earth in the form of Jesus Christ as a form of salvation and to save god’s creation.
Jesus, by dying on the cross and resurrecting he just proved to show that there was such thing as eternal life and that wants you die it isn’t the end of life. Jesus created a bond (bridge) between man and god by carrying a burden of sins into heaven. This allowed man to finally be able to reunite with god in heaven and god could be together with his creation.
The death of Jesus is very important to Christians. This is because if Jesus had never had died carrying the burden of sins, he would not have been resurrected, therefore thee would be no proof of eternal life. Therefore there would be no point in being a Christian, because without Jesus carrying the burden of sin and resurrecting they would not be able to reach God. Also without him doing this he would not be the messiah who was sent down to save the human race. We know however that he is the messiah because he fulfilled the prophecy, died and was resurrected.
BY FAHIMA
PATEL
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